shelbinator: My career is in the toilet

Shelbinator (

shelbinator) wrote,
@ 2005-02-23 13:30:00

My career is in the toilet
Dear Big Engineering Company,
We are pleased to submit this proposal for a Fancy Expensive Research Contract. Here at Georgia Tech we are so very smort and we owns the most biggest Fancy Equipment and High Tech Things for working. We invite you come tour our facilities and see our Fancy Technology Lab but please be careful as you come in

not to step in the piss.
With humblest quivering anticipation,
MPRL at GaTech.

Yes, that is my office building. Yes, that is human excrement puddling up on the floor. Yes, this has happened before.

I shouldn't be surprised at an Institute of Technology where for 6 weeks I have been unable to get off-hours access to my classroom building because Facilities can't quit furiously spanking to janitor porn long enough to mouseclick my ID number into a computer; where the student center convenience store sells a bottle of Coke for $1.35 right next to a soda machine selling it for $1.25; where the department of Interational Affairs still hasn't got a walk-up or wireless network connection because it's all of 30 yards away from main campus; where the library closes at 6pm on Friday and Saturday (some nerds!). I could go on and on.

At least the flood of scree hasn't ruined our carpet again. Yet.

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	eyelid 2005-02-23 06:58 pm UTC (link)
	laughing sounds like you're a shoe-in for that contract! (Reply to this)

	morganaus 2005-02-23 07:15 pm UTC (link)
	Why, exactly, is human urine flooding the hall? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	shelbinator 2005-02-23 07:48 pm UTC (link)
	DO NOT QUESTION THE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	morganaus 2005-02-23 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	snaps to attention YESSIR! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tangophantom 2005-02-23 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	Is this yet another building that has come up since I left only 5 years ago? And isn't fitting that INTA is on it's on, outside of campus? (Reply to this)(Thread)

shelbinator
2005-02-23 07:48 pm UTC (link)

Nope, this is yet another building that should be torn down or burned to the ground. Bunger-Henry. We have sewage on the ground but we don't have bathrooms on the first floor. You have to hoof it upstairs to take a piss, and god forbid you're handicapped; wheelchair riders just have to piss themselves.

I think the INTA building was put on the frontier of the ghetto in an attempt to make some of those academic neoliberals into realists.

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	BH should definetly go down in flames or by wrecking ball tangophantom 2005-02-23 07:54 pm UTC (link)
	I guess it would be nice to be able to 'go' anywhere. Maybe you have some people with catheters running down their pants and no baggie for the piss to go into. Talk about engineered for convinience. Don't know much about why INTA is there, but I know the Habersham building used to be a S&L, so I love that it also houses the Econ dept. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	laurelai33 2005-02-24 01:23 pm UTC (link)
	I thought you were in a different building from the sewage offices! I'll send my gas-mask. (Reply to this)

	munch1971 2005-02-24 04:52 pm UTC (link)
	Flammable Asbestos-Piss! Get yer lighter, yon Institute Teknologie resersher. (Reply to this)(Thread)

That's one small step for man, and one giant . . .

chedclark
2005-02-24 09:35 pm UTC (link)

And when that isn't happening you have to deal with the Poonar landing. Munch, do you still have that picture?

You know, just the other day I was thinking about how I miss grad school. All those days of lounging around doing nothing. Then you see pictures like that, and suddenly, law school doesn't seem that bad. Although, the law school building doesn't have men's rooms on some of the floors, and the floor numbering goes 2, 3, 5. So that is kind of comforting, a little bit of Bunger-Henry style absurdity.

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	Re: That's one small step for man, and one giant . . . munch1971 2005-02-25 04:48 am UTC (link)
	Shelby, I couldn't help it - blame Ched Clark. Did you ever see this one? This was found at the bottom of the stairwell (closest to the lab/office). Of course the spork and sign was courtesy of two MPRLians. Right on. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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