What pisses you off at AGSB? What must be done?
I have been in AGSB for the past 2 years and I have come to appreciate all the benefits and learnings that I have acquired from studying in the school. It has (almost) always been a pleasant experience whenever I am at school – except for some that I have been exasperating since.
One of them would be the lost ID charges – my question is, how did the school even come up with the Php200 fee? What comes with it? Is it the price of getting students (or even professors) hassled nowadays? Perhaps the school needs to re-think this policy because I think this is unfair to all of us concerned. Come to think of it, how the student gets to be legitimately allowed within the school premises is just too funny – there will be argument (or pleading) between the student and the guard, and then once the student realized s/he doesn't get her/his way, a guard escorts (or flags to other security guards within the school grounds) the student to the cashier and then the student is let go. I mean, it is also hassle for the guards because they have to babysit some forgetful student for the day. What I think the school needs to do first is to do away with this forgotten or lost ID fee so all parties concerned will not be hassled anymore. How about the school has a centralized database (or even just a list of enrolled students for the term) which the guards can access from their post so that when one student forgets his/her ID, the guard just verifies through the database that s/he indeed is a student of the school and just lets him/her in. One way of penalizing the student for forgetting his/her ID is to modify the earlier suggestion – the guard has access to the database, then a scanner is placed on all entry points of the school. This scanner shall be the "ticket" of the student to enter the school and can also double up as an attendance monitoring system. If a student forgets his/her ID for the day, s/he will be marked absent in class without any chance to appeal.
Another thing that somehow annoys me is that there are very few choices in the school cafeteria. Albeit the good food offered by the current concessionaire, it is still not enough for the students. The cafeteria is very big for the entire student population so we need more than just Wendy's, Fruitas, Tea Delite, and Pizza Pedericos. There should be a re-layout of the cafeteria wherein 3 or 4 more stalls can be added at the sides. Proposed food choices should be more on the gourmet side, since a lot of people nowadays are health-conscious. Perhaps a salad bar, a dessert stall, and a mini-coffee shop are the minimum "requirements" to vamp up the cafeteria. This way, students will appreciate the cafeteria better and we won't have to cross the street anymore to get to Powerplant just to buy more decent snacks.
One last major thing that I have been hoping that the school realizes is that there is no tissue paper provided for in the toilets and that the hand dryer mechanism doesn't work properly. Sure, the wash rooms are big enough for the school population and that there is a working bidet in each cubicle, but I still don't get it why the school can't even provide a toilet paper. I think it is very basic for a toilet paper to exist in a wash room. I noticed that there are tissue holders in some cubicles, but what is the use of the tissue holder if there's no tissue to hold? There are also tissue and sanitary napkin vendo machines, but most of the time those are empty. The school needs to provide toilet papers in each of the wash room cubicles and make sure that they don't run out of supply. Also, there should be strict monitoring of the vendo supplies so that students don't have to go around asking others if they have sanitary napkins to spare or even tissue paper.
As one of the most prestigious schools in the country, AGSB needs to provide the students with a more hassle-free academic life, a more decent cafeteria, and a working and complete toilet. This way, the school can better protect its brand and give the entire school population a better peace of mind. 4 This is the nth time this complaint has been forwarded. No action. from a management education institution?
1 comments:
Hi Kristin. I know that at ALI these things would not happen. Its leadership would not allow this happen. In my outfit I will not allow this. There is going to be war. However, we can just make this as a learning experience. There is a great divide between what people say and what people actually do. To be successful the action and words must coincide. Just be one.
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