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hedgewitchnecromancer · 2 months

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My college has kicked everyone out of the main dining hall for the entire weekend so that somebody can host a banquet in there. This includes the kitchen staff, other than the ones setting up the banquet, which means all the specialized areas, including the allergy-free area, the pizza ovens, and the ice cream machine and freezers (less important but the most popular thing in the entire dining hall) are completely off-limits. This is our only functioning dining hall on campus. Technically we have two, but the second one is only called a dining hall because it has access to the main one, not because it can function on its own. It's used, fun fact, mainly as event space, like banquets, and is not designed to be the main dining hall for 1500 kids. It can't even physically fit the entirety of the crowds that come at the busy times of the day!

But nope. Why would a college halfway to the brink of failure due to, among other things, incredibly bad relations between the students and ground-level staff and the administration, consider doing something that won't anger the student body even more? That's just absurd!

#god #the administration of this place is a fucking nightmare #its main thing has been completely ignoring the entire regular populace's suggestions about how to run the school #then implementing the thing everyone told them not to and being shocked it went badly #and also not doing anything we do want them to do #I think the best point of this in miniature is the fact one of the student center doors came off its hinges in late september or so #and all that's gotten is a sign saying 'don't use'#while they moved the entire school store into that same building in under a month new sign mannequins and everything #my personal most hated thing though is that two of the outdoor ramp rails have rusted out their support poles to the point they don't #connect to the ground there anymore. one of their crosswalk signs did this too and luckily that got fixed by replacing the rusted out parts #and only those. partially rusty is fine #and one of the emergency phones— the farthest one from any others— has been broken for longer than I've been here with no expectation of #being replaced or repaired.#and all the crosswalks are so worn they're gone. not almost gone. most of these are lucky to have any paint left near the edges of the road #they're Gone #our current student president won with a campaign of 'us before the system' against the incumbent president #unfortunately this is one of the best schools in my country for my major and the only one half decent under $40000 a year #and the students and faculty are great. Administration is just such a shitshow #so I'm staying assuming the place doesn't shut down within my four years #umf #university of maine at farmington

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