My Knightlife

At the beginning of the semester as an RA staff in E.M. Lynn we decided the duty schedule for the rest of the semester. Doing the weekly schedule was a challenge because certain individuals on our staff couldn’t differentiate between “days the can’t work” and “days they didn’t want to work”. Nevertheless, we eventually got through the weekly schedule and weekend schedule.

Spring Break schedule was a little different. One individual need to go home for a substantial reason that was completely understandable. However, the others claimed they had plane tickets to go somewhere. I originally volunteered for the two days during spring break, which would leave only five remaining for a staff of 9 to divide. After arguing and disputing the schedule and everyone else in the room claimed they COULD not do it, I said I would.

I really wanted to go home for just part of spring break and it really disappointed me on how things happened. Karina said she would split it, but she really needed to go home and I didn’t want to change that. Well, spring break was here and four staff members were on campus the entire week. I really felt disrespected and lied to among my staff members. I texted them several times to see if they would take a day or two from my week to allow me to come home. No response except from ONE of them. Unless you consider a response “I’ll switch days”. I didn’t consider that a response because these were 7 days that I was doing in ADDITION to my normal schedule.

Anyways, thanks to Chris and Karina I was able to come home. I got a flight out at 8:35pm out of Fort Lauderdale and I am able to stay until Sunday. I really can’t say enough of how much I appreciate both of them.

Filed under: Home, Lynn, Resident Assistant, Travel on March 7th, 2008