Cheated
P/S::::::: This blog is written on 17 August (Wed). but however due to my company problematic network plus my hectic work schedule, I can only post it now.
I know I have not be blogging diligently. but so what. I got nothing much to blog + no mood to blog.
ya so i really feel like blogging today bcos i have things to blog on.
I went to school yesterday for the Classroom Technical Support Training. Its a student helper thingy and its something like Work and Study scheme, but its not totally that cos the pay wasnt equally fantastic.
According to Timothy Wee from CIT, our role is:
"The goal of Classroom Technical Support is to assist the professors should they come across any difficulties in using the new Audio Visual and IT tools in class. The Helper would perform preventive checks of the tools before class to minimize any class disruption. After the class has started and if there is any tool failure, the Helper should identify the source of the problem, perform simple troubleshooting, and escalate to the CIT Help Desk team if the problem is not resolved. The Helper should fill up a simple report at the end of each class, even when there is no reported fault."
At first, I am rather attracted to the remuneration that is proposed. it was agreed that student will be paid $8.18/hr. so for a 3 hour class, we will be paid 3x$8.18. well, for student under work and study scheme, they are paid 10 bucks an hour. so this is not so fantastic, but nonetheless, i am going becos i am interested in that job so i dun bother much on the lesser pay. Moreover I think that this is an easy money bcos even if there's no problem, as long as we were there in class, we would get paid also.
When I reached there for the training, the first thing that was told to us is that instead of getting 3 hr pay per class, we are only paid HALF AN HOUR pay per class. which means from $24.54, our pay is reduced to only a pathetic $4.09, and for a 1.5hr class, we would be paid only 15 minutes which is a even more pathetic $2.045. their reason is that normally when something wrong happens, as a technical support, they would expect us to work only for half an hour. anything beyond half an hour or even less than that, and cant be solved, most probably the prof will cancel the class or shift to another SR.
I feel so damn cheated loh.
I purposely rushed my work (as i have tones of work to finish to meet the deadlines as i dun want to come back to work when sch starts) and took leave to come down to this training, and the first thing i know is a pay cut to only 1/6 of the actual pay.
They dun realise that problems dun come only within the start on the class. They also dun realise that beside being the failure in powering on the projector, there's other stuffs that I guessed the prof would EXPECT the student helper to help on things like switching from laptops to pc, or to visualiser, to virtual canvas, to VCR, to white board etc... and all these is ongoing in class.
CIT is so damn cheapo.
Well, on a happier note, I met KF today on bus yesterday. this reminds me who i met these few days. well on monday, I met JP while going for lunch. He lives nearby my office, ya.. so he's going for lunch as well. then at night, I met J.Heng at Scotts foodcourt. Coincidently both of the ppl i met are my good friends' ex-crushes. and at time I wonder will I meet my ex-crush too. haha...
hmm.. so whos ex-crush will i meet today?
I know I have not be blogging diligently. but so what. I got nothing much to blog + no mood to blog.
ya so i really feel like blogging today bcos i have things to blog on.
I went to school yesterday for the Classroom Technical Support Training. Its a student helper thingy and its something like Work and Study scheme, but its not totally that cos the pay wasnt equally fantastic.
According to Timothy Wee from CIT, our role is:
"The goal of Classroom Technical Support is to assist the professors should they come across any difficulties in using the new Audio Visual and IT tools in class. The Helper would perform preventive checks of the tools before class to minimize any class disruption. After the class has started and if there is any tool failure, the Helper should identify the source of the problem, perform simple troubleshooting, and escalate to the CIT Help Desk team if the problem is not resolved. The Helper should fill up a simple report at the end of each class, even when there is no reported fault."
At first, I am rather attracted to the remuneration that is proposed. it was agreed that student will be paid $8.18/hr. so for a 3 hour class, we will be paid 3x$8.18. well, for student under work and study scheme, they are paid 10 bucks an hour. so this is not so fantastic, but nonetheless, i am going becos i am interested in that job so i dun bother much on the lesser pay. Moreover I think that this is an easy money bcos even if there's no problem, as long as we were there in class, we would get paid also.
When I reached there for the training, the first thing that was told to us is that instead of getting 3 hr pay per class, we are only paid HALF AN HOUR pay per class. which means from $24.54, our pay is reduced to only a pathetic $4.09, and for a 1.5hr class, we would be paid only 15 minutes which is a even more pathetic $2.045. their reason is that normally when something wrong happens, as a technical support, they would expect us to work only for half an hour. anything beyond half an hour or even less than that, and cant be solved, most probably the prof will cancel the class or shift to another SR.
I feel so damn cheated loh.
I purposely rushed my work (as i have tones of work to finish to meet the deadlines as i dun want to come back to work when sch starts) and took leave to come down to this training, and the first thing i know is a pay cut to only 1/6 of the actual pay.
They dun realise that problems dun come only within the start on the class. They also dun realise that beside being the failure in powering on the projector, there's other stuffs that I guessed the prof would EXPECT the student helper to help on things like switching from laptops to pc, or to visualiser, to virtual canvas, to VCR, to white board etc... and all these is ongoing in class.
CIT is so damn cheapo.
Well, on a happier note, I met KF today on bus yesterday. this reminds me who i met these few days. well on monday, I met JP while going for lunch. He lives nearby my office, ya.. so he's going for lunch as well. then at night, I met J.Heng at Scotts foodcourt. Coincidently both of the ppl i met are my good friends' ex-crushes. and at time I wonder will I meet my ex-crush too. haha...
hmm.. so whos ex-crush will i meet today?
