@LaFawndah@colulumbina I email 1-2 weeks ahead of move-out, pizza would be impractical to keep in an office for 10 business days. Def would consider another drink option but I have a budget to manage and need to be cost effective & vaguely healthy. Usually I keep chips, candy, capri suns, granola bars
I do this to the students who live in my building about move out but obv can’t change their grades so I tell them to come to my office and I’ll give them chips/candy. In 2 years, no one has showed up. they email me later like “why did I get charged? :/”
@jooooceyy@arbelista I’m not an RA, I supervise RAs though. This is my full time job. Different schools have different names for the job (Community Director, Area Coordinator, Hall Director, etc.) and I’d rather not use a specific one
@LaFawndah@colulumbina nothing happens! yay! you moved out correctly and (hopefully) didn’t have any prohibited items in your room
I try to get face time with students because most didn’t read their housing contract and don’t know half of their stuff isn’t allowed and they’ll get charged for having it
genuinely so glad I muted that tweet bc wdym one of the first things I had to read when I woke up this morning was someone implying I’m a predator for *checks notes* telling college students I have snacks and candy in my office if they want to swing by
this is so funny because in 37 hours he only hit like 3k encounters. rookie numbers, not even half odds lmao. maybe he should try hunting in Legends ZA or something
just bc it’s so hilarious i want all the shiny hunters to know logan paul – who said stream wouldn’t end until he found shiny onix & complained the whole time – hasn’t found shiny onix & stopped streaming.
@electrolimes@arbelista obviously some of them do read the email/their housing contract, because I have never had to charge 100% of my residents. but I DO have to charge a disproportionately large % of residents (that gets bigger every year) and I suspect not reading the email is related.
@electrolimes@arbelista bean soup. but I also usually have chips and capri suns. they can also just stop and not take candy. the whole point is they know I’m available to answer any questions for them about move-out so they don’t get charged.
@lucestuous the only way to get students to meet with me / their RA is to offer food. so I get how it sounds, and also they literally will ignore me if I don’t have anything. At least with snacks/candy in my office I can offer them to students who haven’t eaten all day.
@rainatske They aren’t reading the emails. So they don’t see the section to stop by my office for candy (where I would also answer any move-out questions they had) and then they inevitably don’t leave on time or have prohibited items in their room that results in a charge
@arbelista I genuinely don’t know how to break this down any further. I can’t grade them because there are no grades assigned for living in the dorms. So instead of saying “if you read this far email me for extra credit” I will say “if you read this far, visit my office for candy”
woke up to hundreds of notifications of people being confused about a tweet I made 30 seconds before I fell asleep. I’m not used to literally anyone who doesn’t know me irl seeing my tweets
@harriets_lb@orcaboy77@colulumbina they can get charged for not leaving on time. at some schools I’ve worked they can also be charged for leaving trash behind or items they’re not supposed to in their dorm (i.e. an electric scooter is a fire hazard and has to get removed by maintenance, so they charge a fee)
@orcaboy77@colulumbina I’ll email them move out instructions and say “if you read this far, swing by my office for snacks/candy/whatever)” and they never show up? the same as the professor in the OP?
@colulumbina I’m staff, not faculty. So I manage their dorm and make sure they move out at assigned periods in their housing contract (Thanksgiving, winter break). If they don’t move out properly they’re assessed a fee