Minor annoyances from the Rec

[Trayol]

As the title states (hmm, the thread was supposed to be shorter):

No we don't have any more
We are out of raquetball rackets; you can't ckeck any out. Yes, I'm sure. Standing next to me at the counter is going to make more appear. There is going to be a wait for them when/if some come back, so the people before you have first dibs. By all means fill out a complaint, it's your fault we only have some a few no rackets left due to abuse. Here's a suggestion, buy your own racket and bring it in with you.

ID? What is this strange concept?
Yes it is a pain to fill out a form to rent equipment, but this doesn't mean you don't have to do it. Yes your ID is integral to completing the form as I need to know the number on it. Why, so we can charge you when/if you steal the equipment. Even before the forms, we took your ID to rent so you still needed it. And don't get huffy when you have to walk the oh so long distance of <100ft to the lockerroom to retrieve your card.

ID, Part 2
Do NOT try to waltz past me without showing your school ID. The "oh, I forgot about showing it" line is a crock and you know it; you've been here enough times to know this expectation and I obviously don't sit here for my health. Oh, you don't have it, well bye. I could let you in, but you tried to cheat me so you then get nothing. NO GYM FOR YOU!!!!

Locks of Fail
Don't tell me the lock is broken, I know it isn't. How? The decreasing number of times I've had to open lockers. Thank you for those who took the time to learn how to use the new locks; a pox on the rest of you.

Pop Machines
We have no control of the pop machines. You should know by now that the clear one is tempormental. There are signs on the machine saying so. If you want your money back you have to fill out a form for the Pop Co. and you might get a refund. Don't get upset when we tell you that we don't hand out refunds. If you get cheated while you were trying to cheat the machine, sucks to be you. DO NOT shake, kick or rock it; you will be thrown out.

Weightroom
To you inconsiderate muscle heads,
You're playing a dangerous game of "piss-off the female employees". Stop it, you will lose. They are nicer than I and haven't yet brought down the hammer but they will. Be forewarned, clean after yourself or you will find your lifting time filled with sorrow and boredom.

[Digitalpotato]

From my friend working at a rec centre....

This is not a Karaoke bar - so please quiet down.
I know it helps some people with repetitions and all to sing along with their music, and I have no problem with this - so long as they do it QUIETLY! Preferably in their HEADS. when I can hear you all the way from the front counter singing along to some Feminem song, then you're clearly too loud and need to quiet down.

Do NOT threaten me with violence if I ask you to calm down politely!
Seriously, I just walked up and said, "Sir can you please quiet down? People are sending in complaints."
Wannabe Singer: WTF MAN ARE YO UTALKING ABOUT I AM JUST WORKING OUT DON'T DO THAT TO ME ELSE I'LL PUNCH YOUR NOSE ACROSS THE ROOM!
Me: Hello threatening charge.

When you're asked to quiet down, don't sing LOUDER!
The front desk is already full of enough complaints when you're singing racist hateful shit and songs about Necrophilia or rape. When you're asked to quiet down by someone manning the equipment, then don't sing louder. There are times when I wish I had the authority to shut off some people's first amendment rights...

Don't throw weights into the swimming pool. That's not funny.
YOU threw that dumbbell in there, YOU get it out! If you walk up to the front desk and say "uh I dropped it in there can you get it for me?" then they will give you a VERY odd look.

Don't have sex in the bathrooms.
Those are public. Do you wanna get Hepatitis C?

Don't push people off the exercise equipment.
because
a) It is annoying
b) It is rude
c) It is also dangerous.

Don't throw weights around
you can REALLY hurt someone.

don't take Medicine Balls into the swimming pool.
That is NOT a flotation device!

don't throw medicine balls around.
Those can hurt someone although it's not as bad as weights.

Don't abuse the recreation equipment.
I don't mean a 500 or so pound person on an exercise bicycle. I mean kicking, punching, smacking, or any form of attack on the equipment.

Don't try and put porn on the TVs.
The channels are locked.

The swimming pool is NOT a toilet!!
Great now it has to be closed while we clean it becuase for all you know you got hepatitis or Salmonella....

Use the TOILET!
When you need to shit or piss, you go to the bathroom and go into a toilet. You do NOT go on the floor of the locker room!

It's not funny anymore - STOP TAKING WET TOWELS AND WHIPPING ENGINEERING MAJORS WITH THEM!!!
Because you know where thsoe towels end up after you chase them around the rec centre? The floor. And now they have to be washed because they accumulate so much dirt when dropped on the floor.

Please don't jump in the Hot Tub.
That's only three feet deep, you're gonna break your foot.

Please don't throw food in the pool.
Seriously does that "30 minutes before swimming" mean NOTHING?!

The hot tub and swimming pool are NOT TRASH CANS!
Throw away your powerbar wrappers before, please. Don't throw orange peels in the swimming pool.

Please check to make sure the swim team has not booked the swimming pool first.

[IT Grunt]

ID, Part 2
Do NOT try to waltz past me without showing your school ID. The "oh, I forgot about showing it" line is a crock and you know it; you've been here enough times to know this expectation and I obviously don't sit here for my health. Oh, you don't have it, well bye. I could let you in, but you tried to cheat me so you then get nothing. NO GYM FOR YOU!!!!

I feel your pain on this one. I had a job watching over the computer lab back in my college days, and this was one of my biggest pet peeves. At least at our school, your ID was important. It was needed for getting passes to the swimming pool, it was needed to get into the dining hall, it was needed at the library, it was needed in my lab, and on the back in not so fine print was a statement saying that your school ID was to be kept on you at all times, no exceptions. Despite that, it would never fail that I would get someone coming in to use the computers with no ID on them.

Soooo many times I would hear them whine: "Why do I need to show my ID, you know I'm a student!" or "Who other than a student is going to come in here?" The answers: A) 1600+ students on campus, trust me, I don't know everybody and B) I caught someone who just wandered in from the town to use the computers. These answers didn't stop them from complaining anyways.

[Trayol]

IT Grunt, you have nailed the importance of my school's IDs. Unfortunately, at my school I don't think you need an ID to get into the computer labs, but you do need them to print. I wish our ID policy was more strict, too many times people have just walked in or the door attendant let them in.

DigitalPotato: Tell your friend I'll weep for them. I'm so glad that the school pools are at 2 other buildings far away from the Rec. Luckily, people here don't throw their weights, but they tend to drop the dumbbells and let them bounce indiscriminately into other people.

[Bramblerose]

Don't throw weights into the swimming pool. That's not funny.
YOU threw that dumbbell in there, YOU get it out! If you walk up to the front desk and say "uh I dropped it in there can you get it for me?" then they will give you a VERY odd look.

All teh lifeguards can lift a 10 lb off the bottom of 10ft of water and swim it back to shallow, Ideally without it getting wetter.

Maybe you should make these Einsteins do that.

[Digitalpotato]

Trayol: Yeah...they do some really crazy shit out here, although sometimes people apparently seem to do it on accident. I HAVE, however, been cused out at by a jock because I asked him to quiet down a little on his singing. Ah yes, crazy weights people...Don't they know that heavy things can hurt people?

Bramblerose: I'm pretty sure that just about everyone at the Rec Centre out here can lift a sank person out of the water, but it's only really when it's an accident. When people do stuff like drop them on purpose then I imagine they usually say "...well then get it out."

Besides it's just weird...what on earth would you be doing with WEIGHTS in a SWIMMING POOL? I mean do you wanna swim with weights for strength training?

And with Medicine Balls I imagine they weigh a little more.

[Dips]

There are times when I wish I had the authority to shut off some people's first amendment rights...

No need. Those rights are shut off as soon as the student makes the choice to walk onto university property. Universities have every right to enforce standards of behavior and speech on their students and employees.

So the first amendment just doesn't apply. If it DID apply, your friend would be within his first amendment rights to call the students names without repercussion. Is he?

Exactly.