Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Ok I've never done this before, blog about annoying things. I know that lots of people do it, but I always figured it was a waste of space. That's what your spouses are for - venting!!! :) But seen as this blog is our families journal, this is something that needs recording.

Anyone who's been a student at BYUH knows the frustration of having to deal with the Admin department. It seems like none of them know what their job is, or anyone else's for that matter. You have a problem with insurance so you go to the insurance office and get told they can't help you, they send you off to some other department, you wait in line, only to find out they aren't the right people to help you, so you're shipped off somewhere else where you wait 20 minutes to see the person, they tell you they can't help you, and then after this wild goose chase you end up back right where you started. (I know at this point, all students and previous students are nodding their heads and remembering the agony).

And then there are the policies and procedures that make absolutely no sense at all, its like they do it because they've always done it, not because there's some logical reason for it. There are two in particular that are really getting to me right now.

1 - At the BYUH swimming pool, you're not allowed to use any sort of floatation device, including floaties that babies sit in, arm rings for tolders etc, because.....wait for it.....it's a safety issue...??!!!!!! Hello, they're safety devices!!!! They help make the children more safe!!!! It's a whole lot safer to have Malachi in a floaty ring with me swimming next to him, then me holding him, if i go under, we're both going under. When i asked about why this was a rule, (and I've asked on more then one occasion) the life guards shrug their shoulders or tell me, "We don't make the rules, we just enforce them." Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

2 - We are currently in the process of applying for visa's, passports etc for our up coming travel, and so we need passport pictures taken. Tui needed two for his visa, and I needed 5, 2 for my visa, 2 for my passport, and 1 for Tui's visa to show how pretty his wife is :). Usually they charge you $5 at BYUH to get the two pictures printed. A little steep considering it's two tiny little photos and it costs like $0.09 at anywhere else to print a regular photo. But you do what you gotta do right? So when i asked to have 5 photos printed i was told.......wait for it......it would cost me $15!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you kidding me, for 5 itsy bitsy photos that didn't even take up one page?!?!?! They told me I'd be having 3 sets of 2 @ $5 each which is $15. That is just plain robbery!! I asked why it would cost that much and she told me that the rule is $5 for a set of 2 photos and i would need 3 sets to get my 5 pictures. I said it to her a couple of times out loud, just to make sure she understood what she was asking of me, "5 photos for $15....". Alas, policy and procedures prevailed.

I have loved my time here at BYUH and I'm so grateful for the education i received and the experience I've had that have help to shape and change me, but there are some days this place just makes me want to scream!!!!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr............................