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talkingsoup) wrote2008-09-15 11:23 am
talkingsoup) wrote2008-09-15 11:23 am
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Pure Stupidity
So while we were dancing in Worlds of Music today, my toe cracked open and started bleeding a little. No big deal. I figured I'd walk halfway across campus down to the Health Center and get a band-aid to make sure it stayed closed, you know? I figure it'll take like a minute.
So I get to the Health Center and ask for a band-aid and maybe some Neosporin, and what do they tell me?
They can't hand out band-aids. You have to buy them. Because handing out band-aids is a liability.
...What.
I had to get in line for the medication room, then had to wait about five minutes while they processed the transaction. For ten band-aids and some antibacterial cream.
Now. I work in retail, so I know how much it sucks to deal with angry customers. Which is the only thing that stopped me from bitching them all out.
This? This is me furious.
It's one thing to have a customer get angry just because they're impatient. And yeah, I am impatient, but this is different than like, some new cashier taking forever to sell me something. The bleeding had stopped (it was just a tiny bit anyway), but suppose it had still been bleeding? I could have been bleeding into my shoe while they made me wait to buy my goddamn band-aid. For all they knew I could have had hepatitus or AIDS!
And they're worried about liabilities from handing out band-aids?!
Yeah, I know, suing is a big deal, especially on college campuses. But for fuck's sake, all I wanted was a band-aid. Would they have made me wait that long if I was bleeding visibly? Would they bandage me up and then say "oh by the way you have to pay for that." It's like a lifeguard resuscitating you and then demanding 100 dollars on the spot.
I've been forgiving of the Health Center in the past, despite their egregious displays of incompetence, the fact that they lost my prescriptions not once or twice but three times, the fact that they misdiagnosed my friend as having allergies when she had pneumonia, the fact that they've been known to bandage the wrong limb and the fact that they charge ten bucks for you to just lie down when you're about to pass out from anemia. But this is incompetence and unrealistic stupidity on an absolutely unforgivable level.
My family does not fucking pay $50,000 a year so that they can deny me a fucking band-aid when I need one.
And I know it's likely not directly the Health Center's fault--rather it's the policies of Ithaca College. But that just makes me even more pissed off. There is no reason why they can't just hand out a band-aid to someone who is bleeding. I don't care that I wasn't bleeding badly--what if the next person who comes in really is bleeding badly?
It is the most unfathomably stupid policy I have ever encountered on this campus, which frankly, is full of ridiculous policies. I don't think I can bring myself to ever go to that pathetic and incompetent place again.
So I get to the Health Center and ask for a band-aid and maybe some Neosporin, and what do they tell me?
They can't hand out band-aids. You have to buy them. Because handing out band-aids is a liability.
...What.
I had to get in line for the medication room, then had to wait about five minutes while they processed the transaction. For ten band-aids and some antibacterial cream.
Now. I work in retail, so I know how much it sucks to deal with angry customers. Which is the only thing that stopped me from bitching them all out.
This? This is me furious.
It's one thing to have a customer get angry just because they're impatient. And yeah, I am impatient, but this is different than like, some new cashier taking forever to sell me something. The bleeding had stopped (it was just a tiny bit anyway), but suppose it had still been bleeding? I could have been bleeding into my shoe while they made me wait to buy my goddamn band-aid. For all they knew I could have had hepatitus or AIDS!
And they're worried about liabilities from handing out band-aids?!
Yeah, I know, suing is a big deal, especially on college campuses. But for fuck's sake, all I wanted was a band-aid. Would they have made me wait that long if I was bleeding visibly? Would they bandage me up and then say "oh by the way you have to pay for that." It's like a lifeguard resuscitating you and then demanding 100 dollars on the spot.
I've been forgiving of the Health Center in the past, despite their egregious displays of incompetence, the fact that they lost my prescriptions not once or twice but three times, the fact that they misdiagnosed my friend as having allergies when she had pneumonia, the fact that they've been known to bandage the wrong limb and the fact that they charge ten bucks for you to just lie down when you're about to pass out from anemia. But this is incompetence and unrealistic stupidity on an absolutely unforgivable level.
My family does not fucking pay $50,000 a year so that they can deny me a fucking band-aid when I need one.
And I know it's likely not directly the Health Center's fault--rather it's the policies of Ithaca College. But that just makes me even more pissed off. There is no reason why they can't just hand out a band-aid to someone who is bleeding. I don't care that I wasn't bleeding badly--what if the next person who comes in really is bleeding badly?
It is the most unfathomably stupid policy I have ever encountered on this campus, which frankly, is full of ridiculous policies. I don't think I can bring myself to ever go to that pathetic and incompetent place again.
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Most recent example: The other week I had an appointment to meet with a doctor I have to see every semester to get my prescriptions. An appointment. As in an assigned specific time where we agreed to meet. I end up waiting an hour for the doctor to be ready.
And I don't want to just blame the policies. They could probably bend that rule if they really wanted to. There are a lot of rules and policies that exist that many departments in IC just ignore because they are purposeless. The problem is that they don't want to bend the rules. They'd much rather leave the burden on the students rather than put in the effort to provide decent service. I assume you've seen the ladies who run the medication room. Lolly-gagging and chatting while there's a line of 10 people who need their medication but probably also need to be somewhere within the next hour. Doctors who take entire weeks to write a prescription on request, even though if you see them in person, they can write one up in minutes. That's not policy. That's just laziness.
I helped some of the people who work there over the summer. It seems like everyone there hates their job but sticks with it for the money and job security. While I guess IC can be blamed for that, I've never felt like hating your job was a good excuse to be bad at it.
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And yeah, I've had to wait...about an hour and fifteen before? Of course that was a walk-in.
And that's exactly it. They could have just given me my fucking band-aid, but they didn't. Douche-bags.
...On a completely different note, can you do me a huge favor? I need to be on campus from 7-8, and I can catch the bus up but not down. Do you think you could pick me up there around 8? (Today, IOW).
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Hi, Caroline! :)
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Hey Mallory! Haven't seen you in awhile!
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Wow. And I thought Nazareth was bad, what with the health centre there telling me to call a cab when I had appendicitis.
Fail, college health centres. Fail.
(And Ithaca is so not worth $50k a year, those thieving bastards!)
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LOL WAT. That reminds me of when my friend went to the HC with stomach pain and they thought it was appendicitis. At first they were like "we must send you to the hospital!" Then a minute later they were like "Do you really want to go to the hospital? It's very late."
...When they thought she had appendicitis :|
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