In an email addressed to Public Safety student aids, the administrative coordinator for the program laid down some draconian new rules:
Effective immediately student will no longer be permitted to study on post, have a laptop on post, or read anything other than post related instructions. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me either by telephone or email.*
So maybe students can still listen to music and chat with their friends that swipe into dorms, but this job just got a whole lot less appealing.
We’re not sure what caused the sudden change in policy, but in other safety-related news, Gothamist reported a woman nearly being raped at the 110th subway station last week, and on Monday a woman stole property from the 6th floor of Dodge Hall.
*[The formatting is Bwog’s, though the grammar mistakes are not]
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@Anonymous Work study is a job. Don’t complain if you can’t do work during it. I’d love to get paid $10 an hour to sit on my ass and study but I’m one of those few kids that pays the full price of tuition to come here so this signing in “work” isn’t an option for me. Stop complaining and just do the job… But wait, you’re not privileged so we should just give you the money for free to make up for it.
@LITERALLY YOU ARE AN AWFUL PERSON
@Anon Students studying while working still pay more attention than the majority of public safety officers (ex: scissor-hands solitaire guard.
@aids =/= aides Student aides are not (thankfully) the same as student AIDS. There’s a whole South Park episode on this, guys.
@DFC I used to work in Dodge. Some mornings, coming in around 5:30am from somewhere else in the city, I’d see the security guys fast asleep in the booth at the Broadway gates. I’d then get to the gym and fold towels while falling asleep.
An hour or so later, wiping the drool off my chin, I’d wake up and do a sudoku. After this, I’d need a break. I’d go outside to my dude in the food cart (the one outside NoCo) and get an egg and cheese on a bun.
Belly full, I was ready to listen to some Star Talk podcasts and cat nap. Around 9:30, I’d wake up, inflate a basketball, and sniff permanent markers for a little bit.
Eventually, usually around 10:30 or so, someone would come in and be all like, “Coach, we have a big game on Saturday. What the hell are you doing with your life?”
@Anonymous Do they realize that full time security officers often play on their phones/watch movies/read the paper while on duty in many dorms?
@Anonymous They are unionized. Student workers are not.
@Anonymous So from the sounds of it now the same rules apply to public safety officers as student aids. What’s your point? Those guys are sitting there for 8-16 hours. You can’t possibly be saying that telling the student aids to leave their laptops at home for a 2 hour shift means the PSOs have it easier. #firstworldproblems
@Anonymous During winter break, students worked 8 hour shifts
@Anonymous Yes, most real jobs involve working 8 hours are forbid bringing a laptop to play on. Still not seeing the point here.
@anon spoken like someone who has never worked a work study job lol
@Anonymous Also they inevitably have a student working the EC door during move-out. WHICH IS THE WORST THING EVER.
@Your Friendly Swiper I would 8 hour shifts every Saturday and Sunday during the year. Not being able to do homework during that time would have been brutal.
@Anonymous More than likely someone clearly wasn’t paying attention to what was going on around them while working. All it takes is for administration to walk into a dorm (or review video) and decide they don’t like what they see to ruin a good thing.
To be fair, there have been established instances where people probed security at dorms before. If someone has the security desk looking like a table at butler library then it probably won’t take a heck of a lot to get past without having to swipe in.
@Former FWS Student Work study is only made bearable by the fact that you can get a lot of studying/homework done while you sit through your several hour long shifts.
@former student aid What the fuck, this is the worst.
@Whew For a second I thought this was for all work study jobs. I had a job where we got to watch movies, do homework, and eat food the whole time. And it was a dream. :)
@Anonymous @Whew: um, what job was this? and are they hiring?
@Anonymous Nearly being raped at W110th at 3 fucking pm? This makes me feel so unsafe. What the fuck.
@Anonymous I don’t know, from the description of the incident in the Gothamist article, it seems the woman was just a victim of a pantsing prank
@Anonymous Pulling someone’s pants off forcefully = also sexual assault. There doesn’t need to be a dick penetrating you for it to count.
@anon Wow How Sexist! Males are not the only people capable of sexually assaulting a woman! Woman can sexually assault a women! Stop this blatant discrimination against men!
@Anonymous yeah, but that’s not rape
@Anonymous It was not the Broadway station. It was 110th on the other side of Morningside Park
@Anonamoose Did you even click the link?