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Dec 3, 2009 19:32:48 GMT 1
Post by Zarsthor on Dec 3, 2009 19:32:48 GMT 1
I'm really not in the mood for discussions today and I'm sorry if I snapped at anyone yesterday, including Buch. I seem to have the worse day of my life at least once every other week. Yesterday was one of those. I couldn't even pour a cup of hot chocolate without dropping. I just found out yesterday morning that the way in which I've been pout onto my course (the modules I've been given) is "illegal under government regulation" according to a finance employee of UCLAN. This means they want me to either leave the University and my degree or give up all the work and marks I've done this year, pay them the full £3425 and take the single essay module I was doing as a repeat in the first semester only. Then come back next year and do my third year in the 4th year as a whole. Its completely ridiculous. The reason the year was maneuvered around was because the department decided that due to the 3rd year consisting of pure essay writing and presentation that with the additional tutor time I'm given due to disability there was no way they could fit everything in and asked me to split them. Even my borough agreed to the idea. I was promised this would all be sorted out yesterday afternoon and I'd get either a phone call or an email. I got none so I thought I'd give them Thursday and still nothing. Then I went to log on to the University network and I've been locked out.
This is just another instance, in a long list, that the university has fucked up and left me dangling. And the best bit I have until Friday evening to get this sorted out before I get a nice big bill sent my way from Preston city council that has nothing to do with me.
So yeah, I'm really grumpy.
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N7v1K0
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Grumpy
Dec 3, 2009 21:51:45 GMT 1
Post by N7v1K0 on Dec 3, 2009 21:51:45 GMT 1
Wow, I don't really know what to say...
It's terrible!
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Dec 4, 2009 1:08:35 GMT 1
Post by Mister Buch on Dec 4, 2009 1:08:35 GMT 1
Bloody hell. What a ridiculosly complicated and overblown situation - why all this fuss over something so small as an administrative error?!
I don't fully understand, but it seems like you're doing to many modules? And this is 'illegal'?! What the hell?
Let us know how this mess turns out Zars. I hope there is a more simple solution. If they're not calling you, you'd better get down to your building (which one is your building by the way?) and have them sort it in person.
I remember all too well that admin in UCLAN is a royal pain.
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Dec 4, 2009 1:37:50 GMT 1
Post by Zarsthor on Dec 4, 2009 1:37:50 GMT 1
Thats the funny thing. I'm doing the right amount of modules but the wrong way round? Yeah they don't know what they even mean. All I have been able to work out is that they don't like me doing a module from last year with modules from this year because they want to charge me 3x as much and the way around it is means they can't charge me £3424 for a single module so they're pissy. I'm going back to the 'I' tomorrow and getting a disability worker to come with me. I don't want to be left alone with that crazy finance woman again shes one of those strange little women that sounds angry ALL the time whislt talking incredible fast and the more you ask her to speak slower the faster and angrier she talks. I think she's scottish. I'll find out tomorrow anyway. I just hope they haven't deleted all my e-mail on the University address because its full of my electronic briefs and I know a tutor was sending me something about one of my modules. It also has all of my University contacts on it.... I really have this feeling that one day I'm going to turn into one of those crazy American kids that takes a sniper rifle and blows the heads off of people they hate from there high schools. Except its going to be fire, a sawn off shot gun and the entire administrative staff of my University.
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Dec 4, 2009 13:37:12 GMT 1
Post by Mister Buch on Dec 4, 2009 13:37:12 GMT 1
Any luck?
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Dec 4, 2009 13:50:51 GMT 1
Post by Zarsthor on Dec 4, 2009 13:50:51 GMT 1
Well I spoke to them and supposedly they're talking to the head of department at the moment and promise to get back to em by the end of the day... this is still going to make it to late for the deadline for the council though and my Landlord is gonna have a heart attack because they're taking him to court.
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Dec 9, 2009 2:37:38 GMT 1
Post by Mister Buch on Dec 9, 2009 2:37:38 GMT 1
Any news?
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Dec 9, 2009 2:51:45 GMT 1
Post by Zarsthor on Dec 9, 2009 2:51:45 GMT 1
Nope. I'm still locked out of the university systems. They're actually ignoring my calls now to... Nobody has said a word to me about what is even happening. I'm going in tomorrow to talk to Disability services to have a good cry to them and they should go and drag information out of the admins. Hopefully... This has all been making my migraines more frequent and my insomnia in hyper drive which doesn't work well for my general sense of being as you can tell by the strange and weirder my stories/art has been. Hey, I'm probably just having a nervous breakdown. It'll be all fine in the end.
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Dec 9, 2009 22:58:12 GMT 1
Post by Zarsthor on Dec 9, 2009 22:58:12 GMT 1
OK. So. I got someone from the Student services department to talk to the admins and they got me an appointment to see one of them. I was told to go to the 'booth' at 11am and when I did I got a really rude man. He actually took the piss out of me when I had a nervous stutter. Sometimes I have issues saying 'S' sounds because I'm partially death in one ear and then the dyspraxia kicks in along with it and my brain just shuts down for a second on the 'shhhh' sound. The son of a bitch actually took the piss out of it... Yeah so now I'm pissed off and sent to a woman in another room. Woman in other room didn't know anything about my case but said she'd help anyway and looked up my files then got all confused and had to make some calls. Then another woman came down who said she'd actually been the one working on my case since last week. She then laughed and said "Oh, yeah I was supposed to call you last week wasn't I?" ............. So this is now what I'm being told. Woman spoke to my department last week and got all the information. She's refused to accept the departments action of putting me on as full time and has told the department to send her paperwork transferring me to part-time. She's then told me if I want to argue about this I'm going to have to put in an official complaint against my department office for wrongly advising me. The only way I could be full time in her eyes is if I drop all my modules keep the retake from last year (which ends in a few days) then do my third year as a whole next year.... Oh yeah get this. Her entire reasoning for transferring me to part-time is: In the first semester I do 20 hours a week instead of 21 but in the second semester I do 24 hours a week. They don't combine the year apparently.... The soudns like bullshit to me anyway because my course is based heavily on self learning and studio time which isn't counted as class time. The god damn briefs say we're supposed to spend 48 hours a week on study outside of class.... This is what I get for not doing a Mathematics degree.
And to the problem of me not being able to log into the unviersity systems... because she called for the change to my status the amount is set to unpaid because they sent the money back to the student loans company. They want the student's loans company to pay them a second time for the new status. This means that even though it has nothing to do with me as I'm not the one paying they've put a cut off on my privileges and will not instate them until they're paid... There is no exception... Good luck getting money from the LEA anytime soon. Half the student population still hasn't got there loans. Pretty much just means that my marks for this year are going to be fucked again. I can't get hold of my tutors and I can't use the university equipment. I was supposed to be doing some recording but we're now about to hit end of semester one and I seriously have doubts they'll have me up and running to use the studio's in time.
And now I'm told I have to talk to the council to get an exempt form myself because the university won't do it for me even though this is entirely there fault. I hate this university.
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Dec 9, 2009 23:52:44 GMT 1
Post by N7v1K0 on Dec 9, 2009 23:52:44 GMT 1
They're a serious bunch of assholes
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Dec 10, 2009 2:41:03 GMT 1
Post by Hodster on Dec 10, 2009 2:41:03 GMT 1
Agreed
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Dec 10, 2009 3:06:07 GMT 1
Post by Rascarin on Dec 10, 2009 3:06:07 GMT 1
That all sounds very, very shitty, Zars.
I suggest hate mail, of the explosives-and-poo variety.
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Dec 10, 2009 3:59:31 GMT 1
Post by Tillian Panthesis on Dec 10, 2009 3:59:31 GMT 1
God... that's sounds awful...
May I've suggest gather up all the proof and evidance aganist them and then use it as a lawsuit againist them or show these to some TV show that is the British equivilent to Today Tonight. Normally I wouldn't trust those sad-excuse-of-journal-courespondant but seems like you might have to find some way to expose the the admin problems to the public. hopefully they made a fool of themselves as it gives them a really bad image and upstarting graduates would steer clear of them.
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Dec 10, 2009 18:02:55 GMT 1
Post by Mister Buch on Dec 10, 2009 18:02:55 GMT 1
What a huge pain. I'm sorry to hear it.
I remember having a similarly hard time getting anyone to deal with my needlessly-complex administrative problems at UCLAN too.
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Dec 10, 2009 18:55:04 GMT 1
Post by Zarsthor on Dec 10, 2009 18:55:04 GMT 1
It amazes me they have ALL those admins and none of them apparently do anything. It annoys me when they talk about University policy because that damn policy changes every other day.
Poo letter soudns fun but that'll probably get me expelled faster than I can say Chimichanga.
There has always been a plan to sue since my first year but its been on hold due to the fact they can take Daniel's degree away for being a witness. I've had a lawyer for the last 2 years a quite a stash of evidence. Though the university keeps making illegal meetings to stop paper trails by asking me to come in on Class business that turns out to be meetings with heads of departments and office heads that I'm legally supposed to have an adviser to but once you're in the room you can't leave. It means I actually have to take an adviser or witness with me into the university any time they ask me to come in. They re-write the meeting notes to there favour all the time and once they actually illegally recorded me in a meeting. Then they deleted all my university e-mail one time when a number of incriminating e-mails were sent to me via University staff. I manage dot get copies of a few of them but some were lost. Tricksy bastards but I do believe I have a good amount of evidence still. I definitely still have that blasphemy of a report from 2 years ago. That thing is venom. My lawyer says that thing alone gets me grounds to sue for slander and emotional damage. Personally I just wish they'd apologize and behave and I'd be happy to forget about it.
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