MrCodeDude
Lifer
I am a freshman living in the dorms and to do our laundry, you have to use a machine that puts money on your laundry card. You put in your card, a $5, $10 or $20 bill and then it credits that amount to your card. Sometime mid-January, the machine keeps erroring out and will either eat the money and not properly credit the card or will flat out not work.
Okay, things malfunction all the time, no problem. Well, it's been more than a month since the thing has worked and the laundry cards are the only forms of payment the machines accept.
There is a sign on it that says to go to another dorm and fill it up there. There are two problems with this.
1. You have to leave your dorm and go to another dorm to fill up. This is suitable if the thing were down for a week or so. But having to go to a different dorm to fill up your laundry card because it hasn't been fixed in over a month is ridiculous.
2. The keys you have only work in your dorm. None of the dorms are connected. All dorm buildings are locked to the outside. Getting into another dorm during the weekend (when most people do laundry) is near impossible because no one is ever in the little common area to open the door for you and you don't have any method of getting in.
I really wouldn't care if they weren't such nazi's when it comes to damage fines. They fined us $50 to clean up a streak on the wall (it was a streak like someone had a black soled shoe and rubbed it against the wall... it took 409 and a towel to remove it), $90 to fix a clogged toilet (clogged toilets happen), $90 for a small blood stain on the carpet where my roommate scraped his knee [they used a steam carpet cleaner], etc.
If they're charging near $100 for every little thing that happens in the hall, there should be some ramifications for the administration not getting their act together. What is the best way of going upon this? Formal complaint with list of signatures? Should the residents be entitled some of their money back?
Okay, things malfunction all the time, no problem. Well, it's been more than a month since the thing has worked and the laundry cards are the only forms of payment the machines accept.
There is a sign on it that says to go to another dorm and fill it up there. There are two problems with this.
1. You have to leave your dorm and go to another dorm to fill up. This is suitable if the thing were down for a week or so. But having to go to a different dorm to fill up your laundry card because it hasn't been fixed in over a month is ridiculous.
2. The keys you have only work in your dorm. None of the dorms are connected. All dorm buildings are locked to the outside. Getting into another dorm during the weekend (when most people do laundry) is near impossible because no one is ever in the little common area to open the door for you and you don't have any method of getting in.
I really wouldn't care if they weren't such nazi's when it comes to damage fines. They fined us $50 to clean up a streak on the wall (it was a streak like someone had a black soled shoe and rubbed it against the wall... it took 409 and a towel to remove it), $90 to fix a clogged toilet (clogged toilets happen), $90 for a small blood stain on the carpet where my roommate scraped his knee [they used a steam carpet cleaner], etc.
If they're charging near $100 for every little thing that happens in the hall, there should be some ramifications for the administration not getting their act together. What is the best way of going upon this? Formal complaint with list of signatures? Should the residents be entitled some of their money back?
