Official bitch about daily life in UL

Drained_Empty · 07-11-2013 02:51PM

I'd presume 50% of them are just waiting for the other 50% to get up and go to the toilet so they can steal their pencil / laptop .

Ave Sodalis · 07-11-2013 02:56PM

Drained_Empty wrote: »

I'd presume 50% of them are just waiting for the other 50% to get up and go to the toilet so they can steal their pencil / laptop .

Given that comment and given your thread, is it safe to assume that you recently had something stolen?
I go to the library a lot and have never had anything stolen when going to the bathroom or shop.

Drained_Empty · 07-11-2013 03:00PM

well you're obviously one of the thieves so.

it's kinda hard to catch them though. when you get your pint robbed in the lodge/icon the first thing you do is set up a honey pot trap with a pint of urine laced with blackcurrant and sit and wait for the offender to emerge.

Jester252 · 07-11-2013 04:05PM

Ah yes the good old eye for an eye. That always works out.

Ave Sodalis · 07-11-2013 04:31PM

Drained_Empty wrote: »

well you're obviously one of the thieves so.

it's kinda hard to catch them though. when you get your pint robbed in the lodge/icon the first thing you do is set up a honey pot trap with a pint of urine laced with blackcurrant and sit and wait for the offender to emerge.

Good job Sherlock, you got me :rolleyes:

That sounds delightful

Drained_Empty · 07-11-2013 05:02PM

actually I used the auld greek trick. I had a hannah montana pony pencil case, and i put it on a desk and i made a stake out in the traveller library collection room and saw some small skinny girl walk by and inspect it, but she didn't take it must have a 6th sense.

Precious flower · 07-11-2013 05:24PM

What was the bunch of plants outside the main building today about? Something about a money tree?

Jester252 · 07-11-2013 06:02PM

Precious flower wrote: »

What was the bunch of plants outside the main building today about? Something about a money tree?

It was a 24 go conquer promotion. Follow the liner path to the center where there was a tree with money/ 24 go conquer sims (not to sure) on it. What I found funny was the orderly queue surely if you had to conquer the maze one should have cut holes in the hedges. Never heard of anything being conquered peacefully.

Copper_pipe · 08-11-2013 10:28AM

Haven't started my accounting case study yet

How long should it take?

DJW11 · 08-11-2013 11:13AM

Subutai wrote: »

Bull****, SAA do allocate lockers to students, it's one of their functions.

Awesome that they're not bothering their arse anymore with it, but they should. They should also have removed the locks from the lockers over the summer, as they're supposed to.

http://www2.ul.ie/pdf/794812357.pdf

I called to SAA about getting a locker in a certain area over the summer and was told that over the summer all lockers would be cut, I then had to pay again for my locker not to be cut which was in a different area. At the end of the summer, I called to SAA again about it as I wanted to get one of the lockers before the crowd returned and was told I couldnt get one if it there were none free.

I was then told if I wanted further explanation I would need to call security as they look after lock cutting???, Anyway I called them and was basically told, If a locker has a lock on it, by some law to do with private property they are unable to cut any locks on any locker ever!!!, He did say I could find one I wanted, watch and see if its not being used and then leave a note saying something along the lines of "hello i have paid for this locker and you need to remove your contents" and if no one come to it after 2-3 weeks they can cut the lock.

So basically its a load of horse****, and somewhere along the line someone in some office has forgotten to remind people at the end of an academic year that if they do not empty their locker or pay to hold onto it, it will be cut and emptied.

wnolan1992 · 08-11-2013 11:16AM

DJW11 wrote: »

by some law to do with private property they are unable to cut any locks on any locker ever!!

Storage Wars would be a much more boring show if this law existed... :pac:

cgordonfreeman · 08-11-2013 11:41AM

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Haven't started my accounting case study yet How long should it take?

Ages. It's horrible. Do it. Now! There was way more work than I originally thought. Why are you still reading? Do it!

Jester252 · 08-11-2013 12:26PM

DJW11 wrote: »

Anyway I called them and was basically told, If a locker has a lock on it, by some law to do with private property they are unable to cut any locks on any locker ever!!!, He did say I could find one I wanted, watch and see if its not being used and then leave a note saying something along the lines of "hello i have paid for this locker and you need to remove your contents" and if no one come to it after 2-3 weeks they can cut the lock.

Well that seems reasonable. You give the person using the locker 2 week notice before you take it.
To advance on what wnolan said UL should do a storage wars type of auction at the start of the year.

Copper_pipe · 08-11-2013 04:25PM

cgordonfreeman wrote: »

Ages. It's horrible. Do it. Now! There was way more work than I originally thought. Why are you still reading? Do it!

Ah i see, i better get a move on so

Pai Mei · 09-11-2013 04:26PM

cgordonfreeman wrote: »

Ages. It's horrible. Do it. Now! There was way more work than I originally thought. Why are you still reading? Do it!

Is two weeks enough time to do it?? Please say it is???

TheRingslayer · 09-11-2013 04:43PM

DJW11 wrote: »

I called to SAA about getting a locker in a certain area over the summer and was told that over the summer all lockers would be cut, I then had to pay again for my locker not to be cut which was in a different area. At the end of the summer, I called to SAA again about it as I wanted to get one of the lockers before the crowd returned and was told I couldnt get one if it there were none free.

I was then told if I wanted further explanation I would need to call security as they look after lock cutting???, Anyway I called them and was basically told, If a locker has a lock on it, by some law to do with private property they are unable to cut any locks on any locker ever!!!, He did say I could find one I wanted, watch and see if its not being used and then leave a note saying something along the lines of "hello i have paid for this locker and you need to remove your contents" and if no one come to it after 2-3 weeks they can cut the lock.

So basically its a load of horse****, and somewhere along the line someone in some office has forgotten to remind people at the end of an academic year that if they do not empty their locker or pay to hold onto it, it will be cut and emptied.

just take a locker, slap a lock on it, and don't bother your arse giving the two quid to saa. I've had multiple lockers via this method, never had any trouble.

Subutai · 09-11-2013 04:56PM

DJW11 wrote: »

I called to SAA about getting a locker in a certain area over the summer and was told that over the summer all lockers would be cut, I then had to pay again for my locker not to be cut which was in a different area. At the end of the summer, I called to SAA again about it as I wanted to get one of the lockers before the crowd returned and was told I couldnt get one if it there were none free.

I was then told if I wanted further explanation I would need to call security as they look after lock cutting???, Anyway I called them and was basically told, If a locker has a lock on it, by some law to do with private property they are unable to cut any locks on any locker ever!!!, He did say I could find one I wanted, watch and see if its not being used and then leave a note saying something along the lines of "hello i have paid for this locker and you need to remove your contents" and if no one come to it after 2-3 weeks they can cut the lock.

So basically its a load of horse****, and somewhere along the line someone in some office has forgotten to remind people at the end of an academic year that if they do not empty their locker or pay to hold onto it, it will be cut and emptied.

Absolute nonsense. This is the responsibility of SAA and they're ignoring it completely. The result is that there are heaps of lockers that can't be used by people who need them but are sitting idle with locks on them belonging to students who may have graduated years ago.

The idea that there is a law preventing them from cutting a padlock from a locker that is the private property of UL and given to students for their usage under the explicit condition that UL has the right to cut off locks at the end of the academic year is ludicrous. That's not how private property works, if this were the case I'd just start wandering around the place throwing padlocks on stuff I like (dibs on Plassey House); leave a note there and I'll vacate it in 2-3 weeks I suppose.

This is surely the kind of basic **** that Emma Porter should be able to sort out in a matter of minutes, the responsibility is clearly laid out in the Academic Handbook; either do the job or give it to someone in the university who will. The current situation is wasteful and silly.

TheRingslayer · 09-11-2013 05:09PM

Drained_Empty wrote: »

well you're obviously one of the thieves so.

it's kinda hard to catch them though. when you get your pint robbed in the lodge/icon the first thing you do is set up a honey pot trap with a pint of urine laced with blackcurrant and sit and wait for the offender to emerge.

Christ mate, you sound like a right barrel of laughs. Take a chill pill. It's only a pint. Sure that happened me before and I just nicked someone else's pint, and then nicked a second one for good measure. swings and roundabouts. you sound like the kind of lad who would nick books from the library to balance out having to pay a fine for returning books late.

Drained_Empty · 09-11-2013 09:51PM

TheRingslayer wrote: »

Christ mate, you sound like a right barrel of laughs. Take a chill pill. It's only a pint. Sure that happened me before and I just nicked someone else's pint, and then nicked a second one for good measure. swings and roundabouts. you sound like the kind of lad who would nick books from the library to balance out having to pay a fine for returning books late.

bring your books downstairs and out into the secret garden of the library then jsut toss them over the wall to your mate. easy to steal bukes.

Fireball07 · 10-11-2013 02:33AM

Pai Mei wrote: »

Is two weeks enough time to do it?? Please say it is???

I would say so.

If you did accounting for the Leaving Cert, I'd say that's a big advantage. If you're able to give yourself a day with about 4 hours straight and do it, you'll get on a bit of a roll and go through it.

Once you start it, you'll get an idea of how long it'll take to finish it, I'd advise doing it the week before it's due though.

cgordonfreeman · 11-11-2013 09:31AM

Fireball07 wrote: »

I would say so.

If you did accounting for the Leaving Cert, I'd say that's a big advantage. If you're able to give yourself a day with about 4 hours straight and do it, you'll get on a bit of a roll and go through it.

Once you start it, you'll get an idea of how long it'll take to finish it, I'd advise doing it the week before it's due though.

I'd say you're right. I hadn't done accounting before so I was clueless and it took me ages. The Excel bit was grand. VLOOKUP is your friend. VLOOKUPs everywhere! They're a real timesaver.

Ave Sodalis · 16-11-2013 02:44PM

Love when you're in the library and the person behind you likes to get up every so often and throw their chair back into yours.
I can see you, you're not a particularly large person, you don't even need half that space to get up...

Precious flower · 18-11-2013 03:46PM

Jesus but the guy across the way from me is typing awful hard on his keyboard, so loud!! He must be in some hurry to get an essay done, he'll break the keyboard if he's not careful. Glad I'm leaving the library in the next few minutes or I might just kill him! :pac:
Also, winter brings with it the snifflers and coughers that drive me spare! I hate you all and have no pity for you. Keep your germs away from me! :pac: (as I never get sick, my immune system is something else I tells ya!)

wnolan1992 · 19-11-2013 07:21PM

ESSAYS ARE DULL!

Christ, I don't know how Arts and Humanities students do this sh*t.

Gratuitous amounts of diagrams and pictures FTW!

garv123 · 20-11-2013 12:39PM

Fcuk off with your stupid module survey pop up link!!!!!

Precious flower · 20-11-2013 01:48PM

Ssshhh laptop be quiet! God it is so warm where I'm sitting in the library right down with the sun just blasting through the window! Why don't they have blinds on the windows?

Subutai · 26-11-2013 01:54PM

3 desks in the library taken by people who put down books and stuff this morning at 8 and haven't been back in the last 6 hours.

That's just taking the piss. Would be nice if library staff would just clear desks altogether after an hour and a half (surely a generous enough amount of time to nip to a lecture or have lunch). In other universities you leave your stuff unattended like that and it'll be confiscated after half an hour.

Chavways · 26-11-2013 01:58PM

Subutai wrote: »

3 desks in the library taken by people who put down books and stuff this morning at 8 and haven't been back in the last 6 hours.

That's just taking the piss. Would be nice if library staff would just clear desks altogether after an hour and a half (surely a generous enough amount of time to nip to a lecture or have lunch). In other universities you leave your stuff unattended like that and it'll be confiscated after half an hour.

Ya it really is a joke at this stage. You'd wonder what they'd be doing for 6 hours. I know of a few computer labs that are pretty quiet but they are such a trek from everything else that they are just a pain in the arse to get to.

Subutai · 26-11-2013 02:02PM

Chavways wrote: »

Ya it really is a joke at this stage. You'd wonder what they'd be doing for 6 hours. I know of a few computer labs that are pretty quiet but they are such a trek from everything else that they are just a pain in the arse to get to.

Gone back to bed I'd say. Desk secured, won't appear back till the evening, **** anyone else.

Jester252 · 26-11-2013 02:04PM

Chavways wrote: »

Ya it really is a joke at this stage. You'd wonder what they'd be doing for 6 hours. I know of a few computer labs that are pretty quiet but they are such a trek from everything else that they are just a pain in the arse to get to.

Their are having lunch, coffee, tea, watching home and away, general hanging out with friends and posting FB status on how they where in the library at 8 doing so much work.

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