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Official bitch about daily life in UL
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Seems you just got a dickhead of a policeman!
I was working for the M&M's for half the week and we were told just to let people know when the Garda were about and that it's a fine for drinking but all the police we passed in college court, Milford, Briarfield and Elm Park were quite sound with the drink thing. They were simply happy that we were there helping along, they gave out no fines apart from a few who had opened cans/bottles and were clearly off their faces.
You were just unlucky I reckon
Think you need to do something about that if you got a fine though cause that's not right at all!
Hope you get it sorted!
On a bitch note...Sprained my ankle and bruised the bone doing the M&M's and am in complete agony...Not happy at all..0 -
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Johnny-fatality got it all basically.
Myself and a number of people I know, alongside a few I didn't know put themselves forward for it and had a bit of training. Paddy Rockett then put us all into a roster and told us what days we'd be working, with whom and where.
We do get paid, minimum wage but we did work from 10pm till 4am, so we kinda deserved it really haha.
It was only on for charity week and sometimes freshers week anyway
We just had to go around, telling people to hide their drink if the guards were round, keep the noise down if the guards were round and if there was any suspicious behaviour or behaviour that could be harmful to others (fights obviously and bla bla bla), we had an immediate line to the garda to call them.
We were told we were just there to make sure there were no injuries, accidents or anything that could potentially ruin Rag week.
Got awful abuse for it really.. 0 -
We do get paid, minimum wage but we did work from 10pm till 4am, so we kinda deserved it really haha.
Got awful abuse for it really..
That's the job in a nutshell - get paid to take sh*te from people whose benefit you're there for. Considering it's minimum wage, and that the patrols function effectively, I think it's a decent scheme.
However, I think that those participating in the patrols know what they're let in for, so while the 'awful abuse' is unwarranted, it comes with the territory and is part of the whole charity week atmosphere.
I'd like to hear a counter argument for their existence, because I don't see any from my perspective. Especially considering the importance of reputation/local relations underlined by many posters on this forum, it seems like a logical scheme to fund to address this area.
Thanks for the work Aragneer, I appreciate the sentiment and resilience of your crowd, whatever about the eventual outcomes (like a referee in a match, these schemes are usually notable for the absence of incidents, so it's hard to tell what 'would have happened' otherwise).0 -
johnny-fatality wrote: »That's the job in a nutshell - get paid to take sh*te from people whose benefit you're there for. Considering it's minimum wage, and that the patrols function effectively, I think it's a decent scheme.
Thanks for the work Aragneer, I appreciate the sentiment and resilience of your crowd, whatever about the eventual outcomes (like a referee in a match, these schemes are usually notable for the absence of incidents, so it's hard to tell what 'would have happened' otherwise).
Yeah we were quite happy with what we did and we cleaned up a few places with our litter picker
Ha you're welcome, the Garda even said we were doing a good job so as long as we're appreciated by some people, we're quite happy. But thanks for the appreciative attitude, it's not often we get that!
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I don't mean to stray of the current topic but it annoyed me today,
And has done many times previous, and has no doubt been mentioned before...
I was pushed for time going to the Kemmy this morning,
And still pretty tired as it was a 10 O Clock lecture Monday morning.
All you want is a smooth trip from your front door to room you are going to, generally, a relatively easy thing to achieve, bar being held up crossing a road or two but that's expected...
When getting onto the college ground itself, again,
It's going to be busy around the hour mark,
I don't mind that as well,
Generally that's unavoidable also...
A simple 2 way system is all I ask for when walking up and down paths, so people can travel both ways with ease, especially at lecture change over times when paths do get congested...
Not a hard thing to do really, perhaps slows things up a small bit but it ensures both sides are going as fast as each other, a nice 50:50 ratio.
I encounter this most on the stretch going down the path from the Courtyard to Library, annoying but having encountered it many times before, I get over it fairly fast...
What I absolutely hate though, and is beyond unnecessary, is stopping in these areas at the busy times and talking to one another, as if it's only yourselves there!
Queues of people both sides of it whilst there is a group standing right in the middle of a path making no attempt to move in any way to make it easier for anyone to pass...
The icing on the cake though was walking down the steps from the Library to Kemmy with 4 girls walking against me, four a breast, until I had to walk through them to make them move, not walking in the muddy grass...
Not when it's soley me and them on the path.
Made my lecture bang on 10 O Clock though,
Which cheered me up a bit,
Luckily for me, it's easy enough to do so
Anyway off to Maths at Jean Monnet in Main Building,
So shan't have much traffic getting there from the library one would hope! 0 -
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AWH NOOOEES and you were being so generous with your tabaccy cause you had so muchI left a whole, unopened 50 gram pouch of Samson tobacco behind me in Stables last night :O
kill me now. Other than that huge catastrophe though, pretty good night. least overall the night was good, I'd like to think it was myself and Cawcheen fantastic presence 0 -
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