head meet desk again, and again

[cornerofmadness]

So I've set up a phone meeting with my lawyer on monday to a) see how my case is doing b) to ask his thoughts on the OTHER student loans. It took me a week to get up that courage. It's being a high anxiety week.

I call my school to make sure i AM teaching on the holiday (i am). Then I call the other school to tell them that A) you have the wrong address B) You're telling people the wrong graduation date. So I talk to the registerar's office. They tell me I can change my address via Polaris (UCF's online system). I tell them I did that in August and it didn't work. We're on thephone let's do it now. 'We can't do that.' Why the hell not? 'It MUST be done via the computer.' But I'm no longer a student. 'you can still access Polaris with your PID' I don't remember that. 'Put in your SS# and it'll tell you your PID' Well if I could put in my SS# why the hell do I need a PID? Okay but my password's been changed. 'Yes, put in you birthdate and reset it...but it might not work so then you'll have to fax us here to get it reset.' Oh sure I'll get right on that. It only cost 1$/page at Officemax you fuckwads, just change it while I'm talking to you. No dice.

So they transfer me to the people in charge of the graduation stuff. No dice. Call back. No, there's no toll -free number. I call back. 'Oh, well you have to make sure about your graduation date via Polaris' (what the other twit couldnt' tell me this?) But I'm talking to YOU. Why don't YOU fix it? 'We can't do that. You have to do it through Polaris.' But this is YOUR job. No dice. They won't help.

So I ask, can I at least go through Polaris and request my transcripts. NO. Of course the one thing I WANT to do thru Polaris I can't. I have to fax the request with the 5$ fee which means I can a) put my credit card # on the fax. NO THANK YOU. or b) call them up after I fax it. So I ask why don't you just put in a form on line like the parking permit so we can make the request there and pay online. Blink Blink. "You must fax...."

Evil Little Dog will tell you how many times she had to talk me out of a shooting spree at this school. I'm telling you, it's justifiable. No court would convict me.

in better news, the mom-sponsered shopping spree arrived in the mail with about a dozen shirts and a box of sugar free valentine's candy. And I got a jazz cd AND the 5 Browns, the 5 siblings all in Juiliard for piano. Ah it's nice.

Comments

[bashipforever.livejournal.com]

I'd hand you a gun but I'm afraid you'd use it on yourself at this point. I know I would just to keep from having to deal with the idiots.

yay for the mom sponsered shopping spree!!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

using the gun on me would be the quickest solution to my various problems yes.

Mom got me all the shirts she saw me eyeing over Christmas (a couple were ones I was mocking but she didn't remember that part)

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I'm speechless. There should be a special place in hell for bureaucratic idiots.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I'm SURE there is. I'm not kidding. There were a few times I thought I'd get arrested down there for blowing my top in the registrar's office.