Why I don't like Band Camp!

[Digitalpotato]

So the university I'm working in a Suckway at is hosting band camp. The next time they agree to host band camp, they had better not only ask for a down payment big enough to finance a Rolls Royce but also give bonus payments to the people WORKING on campus because we have to put up with this crap when the band camp kids are out here.


Lessee, last year, they trashed the tennis and squash courts, were found with a <i>stolen BICYCLE</i> in one of said courts, gouged through the drywall in dorm rooms, someone urinated on the comfy couches in the student centre, someone tried to flush a tee shirt down a toilet...and some bonehead tried to steal from Subway when I was watching.


This year, they're a lot better behaved. (Namely in that they haven't done anything like mistake a chair for a toilet or ride bikes in the tennis court) Course...they still suck.


-Don't use up the $45 cash card you were given by Tuesday then complain that you weren't told it wasn't recharged every day. You chose to spend the entire $45 in two days, now deal with it! (Seriously, how do you run out of money unless you order entire pizzas? $45 is MORE than enough to last you five days)

-ANSWER ME. If I have to ask you numerous times what you want, then you need to answer.

-As nice as your music is, the food court in a Student Centre is probably not a good place to play your instrument. It means we have to start shouting to be heard over it. Bonus points for it being something like a trumpet.

-Don't blare your trumpet in somebody's ear in front of you. That's RUDE.

-No, I won't make the Turkey a $5 footlong for you.

-Yes, I ran your card through. Didn't you see me do it?

-Don't Trash the rec centre. The people working in the rec centre this year are the SAME people from last year, they <i>KNOW</i> some of you guys trashed the tennis court.

-If you trash the student centre, then the janitors have EVERY right to call you out here at 8 PM and make you clean it up.

-Don't order the $3.75 sandwich. I say this not because I hate making "the $3.75 one" but because I hate having to ask "Which one?" And then having to explain that there isn't just ONE $3.75 sandwich but at least SIX. Do you go into Target and ask where the $10.99 item is, or McDonalds and ask what the $1 thing is?

-If the janitors find bodily fluids inside the shower, then they have every right to wake you all up at 2 AM and demand that the person who mistook the shower for a toilet come clean and clean it up.

-The fire alarm is not a toy. We have to pay a fine for false alarms, you know that?

-Paper Towels, Tee shirts, socks, maxi pads, and paper are NOT flushable.

-No, the library is not a free internet cafe. The computers are only for students, so you have to have a valid ID # to use them. This was put in because of all the complaints of people who obviously weren't students mistaking the library for an internet cafe and hogging the computers when paying students needed to use them. If you want to check your facebook, you'll have to wait for the public computers to open up.

-No, I can't put money back ON your card because the computer glitched and charged you twice. You have to talk to the people at the Ram Cash and have them remove it - they have the actual machines that keep track of it all.

-No, I can't put money on your card because the vending machine that took the cards malfunctioned and didn't give you anything. I work at SUBWAY - NOT with the vending machines.

-No, I can't put money back on your card because the computer glitched and charged you twice over at the pizza place or anywhere upstairs. Do I look like I work at those places?

-WASH YOUR BLOODY HANDS AFTER USING THE BATHROOM. Are you TRYING to get Hepatitis?

-If your card only has $3.00 on it, then it means you don't have enough to pay for a $9.34 order.

-It is NOT MY JOB to keep track of your allocated $45 budget. $45 is MORE THAN enough to pay for your food all week. I'm not your personal accountant.

-No, we do not do deliveries.

-If you want to take a 21 oz lid, take one from the TOP. You just took one from the bottom and threw a good 46 lids on the floor. How wasteful.

-Take just ONE straw. Just because you don't have to clean it up doesn't mean you can take the entire basket of straws and chuck 'em all over the floor. That's just wasteful.

-No, you can't fill your Nalgene up with Coke for free. You have to pay for that. No I'm not charging you a dollar - I'm only charging you for a refill. It's only $0.55. Yes, that person before you filled his up without a fit...because he filled it up with WATER. (You can do that from the flippin' drinking fountains)

-Don't suck on the drinking fountains.

[Mr Hero]

Welcome back! I hope you weren't too busy to post. I kinda missed your rants, though I'm sure you don't enjoy the experience.

[Whiskey]

Do you go into Target and ask where the $10.99 item is, or McDonalds and ask what the $1 thing is?

Yeah, they do

[Bented]

Posting as a former marching band member, I'm sorry for the suck.

My question is, where was the director? My director would have killed these kids, then fed them to the drum corps (unless it was the drum corps, then he would have eaten them himself).

[chainedbarista]

wait, how old are these kids?

hepatitis, among other things (just nasty...).

why aren't they banned from using these areas that they've trashed in the past and held responsible for replacing/repairs? i'm wondering what moron in charge didn't consider taking vandalism into account...?

[Kristev]

It's the Wal-Mart shoppers, at college age! You have my sympathies.

[Tsiyeria]

wait, how old are these kids?

If it's anything like the SOUS band camp at my school, they're middle schoolers. Sometimes they're high schoolers. Mostly middle.

Speaking as a college student, 45 dollars for five days only gives one nine dollars a day to eat on. That's fine for one meal. Two meals is really PUSHING it. Especially considering that college food courts are INSANELY overpriced.

I feel your pain, though. Last semester, we got hit three ways on the same weekend. 1) Middle schoolers band camp. 2) High schoolers theater competition. 3) Football camp. AAAAAAAAAND...Final exams. Yeah. No. I'm not kidding.

[fireheart]

" Well, there was this one time at Band Camp......"

[hinakiba777]

45 dollars is more than enough to get a weeks worth of grocery, but not pay for food court.

Honestly, that's only 2 meals a day and only if you limit yourself to meals under 5 dollars.

Still being broke my Tuesday is ridiculous. And all the other stuff they do is a waste.

I hate people using universities for camps and conference being in the REC center and library. They make a huge mess. Plus during the school year high school students are allowed using our Food Court. Which means if you have only an hour for lunch around noon you will NOT get fed. But the worst part is slacker high school students come upstairs to the student lounge and play with OUR pool tables and just hang out all afternoon. We PAY student fees to have that lounge, but we aren't allowed to kick the teenagers out because "They may wish to attend <UNIVERSITY> and being cruel to them could cause them to change their mind."

I'm sorry but students who spend all afternoon playing pull instead of going to class are NOT going to make it into my university.

[PepperElf]

plus pulling the fire alarm as a joke... i thought that was a criminal offense?

[bainsidhe]

Ah camps. Back when I used to deliver pizza, sports camps on campus was a coin toss whether it would be a good or bad experience. Some camps are full of kids with little to no spending money and frankly, girls don't tip. But the boys....ah yes the boys could be fun. As long as the boys came downstairs in a group of 2-3, the boys usually tipped very well. I chalk it up to the male ego, because a lone boy would seldom tip yet a boy trying to impress his friends would do very well. Trying to impress people also meant they were polite to the nice driver.

[MaseMan]

My final summer in college, I worked as a live-in residence hall student assistant while taking a couple summer courses. We mostly had sports camps come through, and they'd usually stay for about a week at a time.

One day I came back from class in the afternoon, and found that one of the stairwells had been littered with garbage. It was mostly candy and stuff, so it was obvious the kids staying in the hall were responsible. I told one of the coaches. He said he would take care of it. The next day those boys ran lap after lap around the practice field until most of them were throwing up.

Seemed like a fair trade to me.

[ralerin]

I wonder if some of the school employees have thought about taking cameras and/or writing in notebooks about these problems and then sending in the mass amount of evidence to the band camp director and president of the school?

[jedimaster91]

Back when I was attending week-long camps at college campuses, we had to fill out damage reports both when we got there and before we left. The initial report had to have any and all "damage" to the room that was already there and then if there were any differences between the initial report and the second report, we (well our parents) were billed for it. One year some boys broke out a window while acting stupid, but that was the worst I ever heard.

[ArcticChicken]

45 dollars is more than enough to get a weeks worth of grocery, but not pay for food court.

I just realized that I couldn't feed myself for a week for $45. It's not that I eat more than $45 worth of food in a week, it's that I have no idea how to shop for just a week for just me. I can do a week for three or four, or I can do two or three weeks for me, but I can't do one week for one person.