Restructure Meeting

So, just got to attend a meeting about the recent restructuring of the university, and the effect it's had on everyone. Was anyone actually aware of said restructure in any real detail? 'Cause while I knew something or other had happened, all the info I was getting fitted into that sorta vague, impending-doom-of-Glamorgan category.

So yeah. Turns out their was a restructuring, and now the support staff are a fraction of their former glory. Sorta like the British Empire, but without the dubious history (or maybe it does have a dubious history. These were some shady looking characters, and I'm certain that it can't be a coincidence that they arranged the tables into the bloody Cerberus logo. It was all a bit Illuminati, if I'm honest, though the dysfunctional Marvel version at best).

I will continue to post Mass Effect pictures
until you learn more about Mentoring.

Anyways, random I'm-Up-Too-Bloody-Early pseudo-rants aside, this is essentially the reason you may have noticed an increase in the fields of Cock-Ups, Chaos and Carnage (the three C's, seeing as no business meeting is complete without that sorta thing). Students not knowing what they're doing, where they're going, what their timetables and book lists are... essentially, it appears that all this is down to the restructuring.

Which would have been handy to know before, really. In my experience stressed out students are a bit easier to placate if they understand that actually, something has gone wrong. It's not them being useless, it's not that this is the system that is actually in place for dealing with this. It would have occasionally been handy, such as when we were calling people, to be able to say "Yeah, sorry about that. You see, there's been a recent restructuring to make the Uni a better place, but while it's adjusting it's a bit chaotic. Looks like you got hit by that that, so lets see if we can't fix it," rather than "What? Huh. Yeah, that's weird  Yeah, let's see what we can do."

But we can do now, which is nice. And frankly, whilst all this might well have impacted our jobs somewhat, we've gotten off lightly. But you might want to give Kerry a hug, or pretty much any member of staff you see who looks in danger of being strangled by their own temple.

Also, go watch Stressed Eric. It will make
you a better person.

Anyway, a proper feedback report thingie will no doubt appear on the Mentor Portal* at some point. Until then, I hope you enjoyed my incoherent babblings.





* Does anyone else really like the term "Mentor Portal"? It's like we have some sort of actual, extra-dimensional form of teleportation at our disposal.

"Wow Gaf, you sure got to class early today! Don't tell me the hellish form of mental, social and emotional torture they call the bus was actually on time today?"

"The bus? Ho-ho, I don't use the bus! No, the Mentor Portal sent me directly through Limbo to the front gate. I can't stop though, for wherever evil rests, we Mentors must be there to haunt it's dreams. Mentors Assemble! I am the Night."