Blizzards, New Lecturers and My Fight With The Ticket Lady…
It was snowing today!! I mean real, fluffy, crunchy, wonderful snow! It was so cool and made me so happy walking home! I wish it snowed like this more often, although I’d prefer if it happened near Christmas instead of the second day of spring. I’m gonna bring my camera to college tomorrow to see if i can get some cool photos of the old campus (that is if it keeps snowing!)
So anyway, I was back at college today, after my wonderfully long break. It was so good seeing everyone again after such a long time, and being back at the college itself made me happy! The only problem is my new lecturers – I don’t think I like them!I know it’s only been one day, but there’s something about them that i didn’t like. The way they described my new modules just made them seem so incredibly boring, especially for computer science, which I loved last semester! Hopefully it was just because it was the first lectures and maybe they’ll get better as time goes by!
**Warning : Start of rant**
I also now really don’t like the ticket lady at the train station! I ended up having an argument with her this morning while trying to buy my monthly ticket, because she firstly couldn’t understand a simple request and then went on to insult me, claiming I didn’t have a basic grasp of the English language! I showed her my old monthly ticket and asked for a replacement for February, to which she replied that she couldn’t replace it because it was out of date since November. I then realised she had misunderstood me and tried to explain that I knew that and I wanted to get the same type of ticket, but for February, to which she replied “but that one went out of date in November, you need a new one”. So after more of this, she finally cops on and goes to print my ticket while saying “I hope you don’t do English in college”. I let this go, but she brought it up again, asking me what I was studying and commenting that surely I’d need a basic grasp of English to do multimedia! At this point I should point out she gave me the wrong change – surely you need a basic grasp of counting to work with dealing with money?
I left it and went to the platform, but then decided to go back to get her name, because she really can’t talk to customers like that. But when I asked her for her name, she asked why. I explained to her that I thought her attitude and what she said was unacceptable and that I’d like to report her behaviour, to which she replied “It’s just a bit of humour”. I took the first comment as ‘a bit of humour’, but when she said it a few more times it really started to annoy me. Why did she think it was ok to insult someone’s intelligence? How did she know I didn’t have some sort of difficulty with languages? So anyway, she tries to explain that perhaps I “don’t have the same level of understanding of English as other people” – which shouldn’t be her business to comment on regardless! The argument continues, I get her name and I leave, because I can see she has some serious attitude problems. My friend then shouts my name from the gate on the platform, because she is one cent short of her fare, and the same women wouldn’t let her get a ticket without it! When my friend gets to the platform, she tells me that the woman started making a personal call in the middle of dealing with her – why does this woman have this job?? She incorrectly counts change, she is rude to customers and she makes personal calls when other customers need to be dealt with! And this isn’t the first time I’ve heard of people having problems with her! It’s people like her that give Irish rail a bad name! I actually forgot her name, but I’m going to ask for it again and I am going to report her. Maybe then she’ll start doing her job better, or someone who’s actually capable of doing the job will get it instead!
/rant over
I was actually really was annoyed about it, which is odd for me!
but on the plus side, I got the other half of my scholarship money today, so I’ll be happy for the next while! 
