Bureaucracy
Why does any organization, once large enough, have to suck? Beyond three people having coffee or watching a movie becomes a gigantic hassle. It's like we enjoy sticking our heads up our asses as soon as five people are in a room together.
I specifically speak of SCAD, my higher education of choice. These jackasses have just informed me today (7/6/04), by post, that I owe $5,498.00 by last Thursday (7/1/04). The problem is obvious in hindsight. You see, I changed my address with SCAD when Marigold and I moved over a month ago, but apparently only my MAILING ADDRESS was changed. There are a host of other address categories, i.e. grades, financial aid, permanent, parents, etc. Therefore, this notice went to our old address and then was redirected here. At least the post office forwarded it. That actually makes me smile a bit. I don't expect those dunces to count to three accurately, but this time they got lucky. So SCAD doesn't mail items of important information to the student's MAILING ADDRESS, but instead to some other address of choice (which all should have been changed anyway). Also, the bursar's office does not have any connection with the Financial Aid office. They are saying that I owe the whole amount of Fall's tuition. But when you actually are able to get someone on the phone, they say, "No. Isn't that cute. You just ignore that honey. Unless there is a difference, which you then owe us by last week or we will drop you from all your classes. . . What? Oh, we can't tell you if there is a difference between what you owe us and your financial aid. You can figure that out yourself. Have a nice day." A-holes.
I specifically speak of SCAD, my higher education of choice. These jackasses have just informed me today (7/6/04), by post, that I owe $5,498.00 by last Thursday (7/1/04). The problem is obvious in hindsight. You see, I changed my address with SCAD when Marigold and I moved over a month ago, but apparently only my MAILING ADDRESS was changed. There are a host of other address categories, i.e. grades, financial aid, permanent, parents, etc. Therefore, this notice went to our old address and then was redirected here. At least the post office forwarded it. That actually makes me smile a bit. I don't expect those dunces to count to three accurately, but this time they got lucky. So SCAD doesn't mail items of important information to the student's MAILING ADDRESS, but instead to some other address of choice (which all should have been changed anyway). Also, the bursar's office does not have any connection with the Financial Aid office. They are saying that I owe the whole amount of Fall's tuition. But when you actually are able to get someone on the phone, they say, "No. Isn't that cute. You just ignore that honey. Unless there is a difference, which you then owe us by last week or we will drop you from all your classes. . . What? Oh, we can't tell you if there is a difference between what you owe us and your financial aid. You can figure that out yourself. Have a nice day." A-holes.
posted by Stephen "Steve" at 7/06/2004 04:43:00 PM
1 Comments:
Thank you. That was a great reminder of all the financial aid trauma I dealt with at Tulane every freakin' semester. I can now put off even thinking about grad school for at least another two years.