Snowing in the Swimming Pool Today?

paky

Was it snowing in the swimming pool today or what? dont they realise there are students who like to use the pool on their days off?

Seren_

I thought this was going to be a rant about a problem with the roof of the swimming pool building or something :pac:

Anyway, the entire university's closed until January 4th, so I suppose you're just going to have to put up with it until then.

wonton

although i dont use the pool or any other recreational facilities the amount of the time the library and other resources close over the christmas is a bit crazy, most people that work dont get that much time off, so why should a university, especially considering exams are straight after christmas.

most people would be happy to just not have to work stephens day nevermind the best part of two and a half weeks off.

irish_goat

For christs sake, you'se can survive without a free swimming pool for 2 weeks.

Sardonicat

Why oh why do you want to get into a swimming pool this weather?

mp3guy

Sardonicat wrote: »

Why oh why do you want to get into a swimming pool this weather?

Because it's indoors.

irish_goat

Sardonicat wrote: »

Why oh why do you want to get into a swimming pool this weather?

Could be worse, I've to go for a dip in the Atlantic on Christmas morning...

paky

irish_goat wrote: »

For christs sake, you'se can survive without a free swimming pool for 2 weeks.

i dont mind paying for it

lordgoat

paky wrote: »

i dont mind paying for it

each to their own like, but fair play for putting that out there.

Seren_

lordgoat wrote: »

each to their own like, but fair play for putting that out there.

CnaG

To be fair now, there's **** all we could have done about it if it was the college who said close up the pool for the day. Our staff have literally risked life and limb to get to the pool on ****e roads for the past few weeks - one of our colleagues even ended up in a ditch trying to get to work last Saturday. And, FYI, we still kept the pool open as much and as often as we could during the bad weather.

Nice to see this is the thanks we get :rolleyes:

We're back on th 4th of January, by the way. Looking forward to seeing you all then!

paky

CnaG wrote: »

To be fair now, there's **** all we could have done about it if it was the college who said close up the pool for the day. Our staff have literally risked life and limb to get to the pool on ****e roads for the past few weeks - one of our colleagues even ended up in a ditch trying to get to work last Saturday. And, FYI, we still kept the pool open as much and as often as we could during the bad weather.

Nice to see this is the thanks we get :rolleyes:

We're back on th 4th of January, by the way. Looking forward to seeing you all then!

jesus fair play mate. what r u complainen about ur getten payed 4 it, the thanks u get? what r u talken about?

ghostdancer

paky wrote: »

i dont mind paying for it

well then go to the Glenroyal swimming pool.
you get a proper gym, sauna, steam room, and jacuzzis with it too.

funky penguin

paky wrote: »

jesus fair play mate. what r u complainen about ur getten payed 4 it, the thanks u get? what r u talken about?

No text speak please.

CnaG

paky wrote: »

jesus fair play mate. what r u complainen about ur getten payed 4 it, the thanks u get? what r u talken about?

Yeah, I was going to take the bait, but I had a look at your contributions on other threads and I've decided I won't get into an argument with you because it just isn't worth my time. I will say this, however, and that is - you think we liked earning less money because the snow made the college close? No. In fact it was an utter pain in the proverbial arse. I lost a third of my week's wages because of the last close. Not that you appear to have the capacity to care about such trivialities affecting other people...

We don't earn anything, nothing, while the pool is closed. So it's better for us if it's open. But if the college says close, then again there's sweet **** all we can do about it.

Happy Christmas.

paky

CnaG wrote: »

Yeah, I was going to take the bait, but I had a look at your contributions on other threads and I've decided I won't get into an argument with you because it just isn't worth my time. I will say this, however, and that is - you think we liked earning less money because the snow made the college close? No. In fact it was an utter pain in the proverbial arse. I lost a third of my week's wages because of the last close. Not that you appear to have the capacity to care about such trivialities affecting other people...

We don't earn anything, nothing, while the pool is closed. So it's better for us if it's open. But if the college says close, then again there's sweet **** all we can do about it.

Happy Christmas.

to be honest i dont have a part time job at the moment, it would be a big help towards my studies if i did. if people can show up at the pool to use it during the bad weather im sure your staff can too, otherwise you should consider hiring new staff, competent ones

regards

banquo

I had a full-time job through 1st year and again through 2nd year (financial situation demanded it) and I had to spend Christmas day with a housemate from Mayo in our house in Maynooth because travel was so bad.

It's not about competence. The University is shut down for Christmas. It shut down 48 hours early because so much snow fell in a short space of time - 4 inches in a few hours - with no sign of it stopping. Could have been much worse in another few hours, there was no way of knowing. So they stayed on the right side of caution.

Maynooth traffic is pretty bad at the best of times. I don't know if you realised how bad it got during the snow. Most of the uni staff, being paid staff, would *drive* to work and, with the trains and buses gone to hell, even more would have driven.

And then you have safety risks on campus. Believe it or not, Ireland's limited number of gritters find themselves in high demand during periods of surprise, unprecedented snowfall. I was walking around campus that Monday and it was damned near impossible to get from a to b.

But yeah, the pool had to close 48 hours early. Heads must roll!

/sigh

paky

banquo wrote: »

I had a full-time job through 1st year and again through 2nd year (financial situation demanded it) and I had to spend Christmas day with a housemate from Mayo in our house in Maynooth because travel was so bad.

It's not about competence. The University is shut down for Christmas. It shut down 48 hours early because so much snow fell in a short space of time - 4 inches in a few hours - with no sign of it stopping. Could have been much worse in another few hours, there was no way of knowing. So they stayed on the right side of caution.

Maynooth traffic is pretty bad at the best of times. I don't know if you realised how bad it got during the snow. Most of the uni staff, being paid staff, would *drive* to work and, with the trains and buses gone to hell, even more would have driven.

And then you have safety risks on campus. Believe it or not, Ireland's limited number of gritters find themselves in high demand during periods of surprise, unprecedented snowfall. I was walking around campus that Monday and it was damned near impossible to get from a to b.

But yeah, the pool had to close 48 hours early. Heads must roll!

/sigh

this isnt the first occassion. it closed in november because of the snow aswel. its bad enough when u cant train outside because of the weather. then they shut down the pool and gym? i dont think they take physical fitness serious in this town. its too laxy daisey for my liking. something should be done about it

banquo

Set up a gym.

paky

banquo wrote: »

Set up a gym.

this one will do fine. they just need a little encouragement to do their job right

wonton

banquo wrote: »

I had a full-time job through 1st year and again through 2nd year (financial situation demanded it)

jaysus christ, how did you manage that? surely you dont mean daytime shifts monday to friday?

banquo

Yup. 38 hour week. 1st year was fine, 2nd was easily the worst of my life! I'm not complaining, I chose to do it and knew what it would be like. Was either that or not go to college. My circumstances were unusual though.

doing

Looks like I'm not the only one unhappy with frequent closures.

Could they not even have a system where members have a key or something?

RockMan94

HERE HERE I AGREE

CnaG

banquo wrote: »

I had a full-time job through 1st year and again through 2nd year (financial situation demanded it) and I had to spend Christmas day with a housemate from Mayo in our house in Maynooth because travel was so bad.

It's not about competence. The University is shut down for Christmas. It shut down 48 hours early because so much snow fell in a short space of time - 4 inches in a few hours - with no sign of it stopping. Could have been much worse in another few hours, there was no way of knowing. So they stayed on the right side of caution.

Maynooth traffic is pretty bad at the best of times. I don't know if you realised how bad it got during the snow. Most of the uni staff, being paid staff, would *drive* to work and, with the trains and buses gone to hell, even more would have driven.

And then you have safety risks on campus. Believe it or not, Ireland's limited number of gritters find themselves in high demand during periods of surprise, unprecedented snowfall. I was walking around campus that Monday and it was damned near impossible to get from a to b.

But yeah, the pool had to close 48 hours early. Heads must roll!

/sigh

We didn't even close 48 hours early. We were open on Tuesday evening as well. We were meant to be open on Wednesday as well, but as I've said twice now, it wasn't up to our staff to decide whether they *wanted* to work or not, because the college closed early due to bad weather.

I find the accusations of incompetence irksome and not only that, they are totally unfounded. I also think "Paky" is a bit of a wind-up merchant. Seriously Paky, do you not have anything better to be doing other than insulting college/swimming pool staff over the holidays?

Oh no wait, the swimming pool and gym are closed until 4th January. I guess you don't.

funky penguin

I'm sorry but this won't end well, and I've had enough of it.