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How do you feel aout uni staff?
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I am wondering what students think of staff at uni. I don't mean tutors but the staff you see thats in your departments. The ones you hand your essays to and sign your forms and that?
Do you think they do alot? Do you seem them as inpersonal entities just labelled as "staff"?
I ask as I now work at a uni, having only left uni in 2005. Its interesting. As a support staff member I can tell you we have a lot of work to do and your charsmatic tutors aren't the easiest of people to deal with!! lol.
I do sometimes see students, and maybe coz I am only in my 20's and not long left feel I am more in their mindest then my older colleagues but then you see the students and they see you as just staff with no attempt to find a common ground or have a friendly chat, even tho your round the same age and do the same things.
I am just thinking aloud here.
Do you think they do alot? Do you seem them as inpersonal entities just labelled as "staff"?
I ask as I now work at a uni, having only left uni in 2005. Its interesting. As a support staff member I can tell you we have a lot of work to do and your charsmatic tutors aren't the easiest of people to deal with!! lol.
I do sometimes see students, and maybe coz I am only in my 20's and not long left feel I am more in their mindest then my older colleagues but then you see the students and they see you as just staff with no attempt to find a common ground or have a friendly chat, even tho your round the same age and do the same things.
I am just thinking aloud here.
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I dont see them as any different to tutors or anyone else ill find on campus, if they talk to me ill talk back or if im feeling particularly chatty ill pass the time of day. hehe
I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to have a few minutes friendly banter, I suppose it would be just like dealing with customers except all your customers are young, party mad students
To answer your question, I suppose I see them just as I see the checkout lady at Asda. If she chats to me, great, I'll give a few friendly words back. Makes the day go better. But ultimately I just want her to scan and pack my porn and bog roll.
but now we put our essay in a little machine and then it stamps it and then we have to post it in a box! i do like using the little machine though. :yippe:
tutors are the main people who students, like me, interact with, they are pretty approachable. as for general staff... erm... the union staff are pretty good at what they do imo. the support staff, who deal with students where i am, speaking from past experience are crap beyond belief! tho' the isn't really much staff-student interaction i don't find.
The only difference is that those members of staff just take your essays, so you just make small talk. My tutor and lecturers are overseeing my learning so I am obviously going to know them on a much better level and understand what they're doing to help me as part of their work.
So no I dont think you dont do anything, our dept would collapse without office staff.
It's amazing what a letter from a psychologist on NHS Mental Health Trust notepaper will get you
Overall though, they're good, but I've only done one semester so far so I've not met that many.
However, there is not one smile to be found on any member of staff (or student) at UWE!
well speaking as a staff member, we do have our stressful days, namely because tutors and lecturers and that are giving us work at the last minute to be done straight away and being very rude about it!!
I have had cover recpetion many a time and always try to be as friendly and as helpful as I can.
I think with staff members around me bing older I kinda look for people my own age to converse with but aint having too much luck ont hat front so far.
I have to say some students can be very dissmissive and rude if you can't help them stright waya and do what they want like. And some are rude or just really thick anyway.
Some are nice tho. I wish I could talk to them more.
Well my job isn't suiting me, I will be moving on from it at some point tho its hard as you do get benefits from working at a uni.