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05-16-2008, 02:35 PM
|  | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | |  What advice would you offer an incomming RA ?
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What advice would you offer an incomming RA ?
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05-16-2008, 02:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | As in resident advisor, like as in a college? Or what?
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05-16-2008, 02:39 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Be fair and occasionally be flexible. Oh yeah, be nice to the dude that's sneaking in after hours with a couple of sexy asian chicks.  |
05-16-2008, 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by tplyons  As in resident advisor, like as in a college? Or what? | No, He means a Rectum Analyzer.  
I say wear latex gloves and a close pin on your nose. |
05-16-2008, 04:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Nino Valenti No, He means a Rectum Analyzer.
I say wear latex gloves and a close pin on your nose. | I'd agree, Latex gloves, or consider Nitrile gloves if you're allergic
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05-16-2008, 07:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On The Bayou | | | get a drug sniffing dog |
05-16-2008, 07:23 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Glendale & La Jolla, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by peterbright get a drug sniffing dog | Listen what people decide to stick in their poopers is their own business, even if he is a rectal analyst. |
05-16-2008, 07:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: NYC/LI | | | Don't sleep with your residents... I've seen that end horribly.
OOOO, DO make friends with security guards that have access to the security camera monitors! I've seen that end awesome. Case in point:
My buddy's an RA and one of the security guards at his building called him over to the screen; there was a couple hooking up in one of the study lounges (it was really late at night). He was about to go stop them when the security guard pulled his shirt and made him stay. And that's when he learned the flexibility thing we saw in Maki's post.
quick note: I'm not an RA
quick note 2: He did stop them once shirts came off. I guess he had to draw the line somewhere. sigh.
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05-16-2008, 08:35 PM
| | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tplyons As in resident advisor, like as in a college? Or what? | Yes as in colleges and Universitys.
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05-16-2008, 09:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Adopt a form of flexibility. My RA freshman year of college had a policy: "I know it's going to happen, as long as I don't hear it, see it, smell it, or know about it, I don't care. Don't be stupid, and I don't care."
As long as we didn't wake him up, had nobody complaining, and weren't sloshed out of our minds, he didn't care as long as we cleaned up by morning so the cleaning lady didn't have to. We drank the most and had the cleanest floor according to the custodial staff.
It worked for us.
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05-17-2008, 09:14 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ohio | | | RA's should be model students, so, they should learn how to spell "incoming". |
05-17-2008, 02:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA | | | Be ready to be disliked
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05-17-2008, 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by tplyons Adopt a form of flexibility. My RA freshman year of college had a policy: "I know it's going to happen, as long as I don't hear it, see it, smell it, or know about it, I don't care. Don't be stupid, and I don't care."
As long as we didn't wake him up, had nobody complaining, and weren't sloshed out of our minds, he didn't care as long as we cleaned up by morning so the cleaning lady didn't have to. We drank the most and had the cleanest floor according to the custodial staff.
It worked for us. | I completely agree with this. My RA was like that. We talked to her about it... and they trained them to be like that. They don't want the RA's busting everyone for every little thing because when an actual problem comes up (and they surely will) the residents need to be able to trust the RA so proper actions can be taken.
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05-17-2008, 02:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Denver, CO | | | +1 to what everyone else says about being flexible. Of course rules need to be respected (to an extent) but I've noticed that the halls that seem to work the best are the ones with RA's that merely want to keep the peace and make sure everyone's safe, instead of RA's that go on power trips and enforce every single rule to the max. The latter type tend to be disliked intensely and that makes the hall lonely and boring at night when all the residents leave because they don't want to deal with the RA.
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05-17-2008, 02:39 PM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JonathanD Be ready to be disliked | Absolutely. I'm sure you're already familiar with this concept from teaching, but the fact is that no matter how cool, fair, tolerant (or whatever other adjective you want to use) you are, people are going to dislike you.
With that in mind, just do your job. Don't sweat the small stuff and don't get little dictator syndrome and you should be fine. But bear in mind that if anything big goes down with students that you are supposedly watching over, it's you who will get the vast majority of the heat. So don't let any big stuff slide. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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