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Friday, January 8, 2010

How the Position of Campus Shuttle Driver Came to be

The Campus Shuttle Driver is a new position.

Let me tell you the story of how it came to be.
Just a quick note: the university is located next to a river.
And now, I will continue with the story.

In order to meet their ambitious plans for expanding the campus, the university decided that a new academic building is needed. And not just any old academic building, a LEED certified academic building.

A site was selected, and the old building on that site was demolished. The building housed Facilities Management. This presented a problem. Now that the office space for Facilities Management was taken away, where should they move the department to? They moved it to an abandoned building across the river. To the boonies. A building that was essential for campus activity. To the boonies. Now if an employee forgets the keys to an office, finds themselves locked out of a building, well, gee, someone will need to trot all the way across the bridge and take care of the problem.

Naturally, this raised a lot of protest. WALK ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE BRIDGE? Nope. Not doing that.

In order to calm the angry crowds, the university decided to introduce a shuttle that commuted between this new building and the rest of the campus community.

So, what department would be the most suitable for this task?

Parking.

No, we deal with stationary vehicles, not moving vehicles.

And, yet, you deal with vehicles. The objects of your primary concern have four wheels, four doors, and a steering wheel. They may be stationary for the moment, but they have the ability to move at some point. Do you see some correlation between this and the shuttle?Therefore, the responsibility of the shuttle, including customer complaints regarding it, will be assigned to you.

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