Monday, December 15, 2008
I tell ya, I get all the nut jobs!
It's the end of the semester and to celebrate, my fellow RA staff and hall director went out to dinner at Dave and Busters. We are all enjoying our evening off and having a nice chat at the dinner table. Dom, my boss gets a call on his cell and just from the sound of it you know something is going down in New Hall. One of my residents pulled a knife on her (yes, HER) suitemate and threatened her because the girl apparantly put the other girls towel on the bathroom floor and got wet. What?!?! These girls are nuts to begin with and it's not the first incident we have had with either. How one got housing this year after the stunts she pulled over the summer (a hampster, alcohol, unescorted boyfriend creeping around the building, and a george forman grill) is beyond me. So the girl called campus police who brings along the hall director. North providence police is called and the whole incident lasts over an hour. The girl with the knife left for the night and the other girl is freaking out, crying hysterically, calling her mom etc. When we were leaving the restaurant, Dom asked me to stop by and check on her. I always get the drama queens! So I go up there with another RA and we talk to the girl. She proceedes to tell us a whole new side of the story that was never told to anyone in the hour the police was taking incident reports! So this causes me a whole bunch of paperwork. In the end, there are some crazy people that live down the hall from me! True life...It's gonna be huge!
True Life...
I'm an RA.
I'm telling you, MTV needs to make a show about the life of an RA becuause it is never short of entertaining! For example, Thursday night I was on call. Since Thursdays are the busy the busy nights, my building (which is huge compared to the others) had two RAs on call these nights. So Vicky and I are hanging out at the front desk around 9:30. One of my residents comes in with a massive bloody red spot on his forehead. We couldn't tell if he was playing a joke on us or if it was real so we asked him if it was. He didn't know what we were talking about and touched his head, at which point the cut on his head began gushing blood all down his face and chest. And what does he say.."I guess I'm bleeding" and walks into the bathroom. At this point we are in shock and are trying to get him to come out so we can figure out what to do. Vicky calls the hall director on call and explains the situation. She comes over and brings campus police to have their opinion if he needs stitches or not. He's shaking so I make him sit and show me the cut. It's pretty deep and he definitely needs stitches. He asks for a band-aid... I make him call a friend for a ride to the hospital. His friends doesn't believe him so I get on the phone with her and tell her his head is gushing blood and he needs stitches! They leave for the hospital and Vicky and I go back to our night.
The whole week it had been raining and there is practicaly no drainage on the front lawn of our building so it becomes a massive swamps whenever it rains. around 12:30, I was on a round of the building and was on the ground floor, which is the basement. I'm going up the stairs and the wall is leaking water. Yes, the walls have water pouring down them. The water was coming out of an electrical outlet, pouring down into a light fixture and into an emergency phone! So I'm standing there with another RA thinking what the heck do I do now?! I call the HD on Call who after a ten minute discussion about the walls leaking water decides to come over. Then we called campus police to send someone to look at it. So there are five of us standing there not really sure what to do, because really, when do your walls ever start leaking? Only in New Hall... After we call in a maintenance person to come in I'm on my way up to my room on the 5th (top) floor. In the hallway my room is on, there is a missing ceiling tile and rain, pouring into the hall. the puddle has taken over the hall and the rain is still coming. For this one I was able to get a bucket underneath to catch the water. As I'm mopping the hallway I am cursing the part of our Resident Assistant contract that we all sign saying "responsible for other duties as assigned."
These other duties as assigned are always the crap you would never think you would have to do. and your boss always loves throwing that phrase around. Like the time Joie had us move her old bureau out to a dumpster, I told her that wasn't in my job description and she shot back with "other duties as assigned" Oy.
So in the end, I went to bed at 4am. just another typical night as an RA at RIC :)
I'm telling you, MTV needs to make a show about the life of an RA becuause it is never short of entertaining! For example, Thursday night I was on call. Since Thursdays are the busy the busy nights, my building (which is huge compared to the others) had two RAs on call these nights. So Vicky and I are hanging out at the front desk around 9:30. One of my residents comes in with a massive bloody red spot on his forehead. We couldn't tell if he was playing a joke on us or if it was real so we asked him if it was. He didn't know what we were talking about and touched his head, at which point the cut on his head began gushing blood all down his face and chest. And what does he say.."I guess I'm bleeding" and walks into the bathroom. At this point we are in shock and are trying to get him to come out so we can figure out what to do. Vicky calls the hall director on call and explains the situation. She comes over and brings campus police to have their opinion if he needs stitches or not. He's shaking so I make him sit and show me the cut. It's pretty deep and he definitely needs stitches. He asks for a band-aid... I make him call a friend for a ride to the hospital. His friends doesn't believe him so I get on the phone with her and tell her his head is gushing blood and he needs stitches! They leave for the hospital and Vicky and I go back to our night.
The whole week it had been raining and there is practicaly no drainage on the front lawn of our building so it becomes a massive swamps whenever it rains. around 12:30, I was on a round of the building and was on the ground floor, which is the basement. I'm going up the stairs and the wall is leaking water. Yes, the walls have water pouring down them. The water was coming out of an electrical outlet, pouring down into a light fixture and into an emergency phone! So I'm standing there with another RA thinking what the heck do I do now?! I call the HD on Call who after a ten minute discussion about the walls leaking water decides to come over. Then we called campus police to send someone to look at it. So there are five of us standing there not really sure what to do, because really, when do your walls ever start leaking? Only in New Hall... After we call in a maintenance person to come in I'm on my way up to my room on the 5th (top) floor. In the hallway my room is on, there is a missing ceiling tile and rain, pouring into the hall. the puddle has taken over the hall and the rain is still coming. For this one I was able to get a bucket underneath to catch the water. As I'm mopping the hallway I am cursing the part of our Resident Assistant contract that we all sign saying "responsible for other duties as assigned."
These other duties as assigned are always the crap you would never think you would have to do. and your boss always loves throwing that phrase around. Like the time Joie had us move her old bureau out to a dumpster, I told her that wasn't in my job description and she shot back with "other duties as assigned" Oy.
So in the end, I went to bed at 4am. just another typical night as an RA at RIC :)
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