Snobby admissions lady

[JimminyCricket]

So I phoned Leicester up to check with admissions for sure that they accepted access to med, as I really want Leicester.

Me: 'Hi blah blah, I just wanted to confirm that you accepted access to medicine courses'?

Lady: 'we CONSIDER them'

(She emphasised it in a rather rude bored 'are you for real?!'/ 'don't waste your time' kind of way.

Me: oh ok, so the one from College of west anglia and MANCAT?

Lady: *Bored sigh* 'Yeees'.

Me: 'And Lambeth'?

Lady: *Even bigger sigh* 'Yeees'

Me: 'Ok Thank you'

Dial Tone.

I am really taken back by it, is that the general idea about access to med at Leicester? Or did I just get unlucky with a really crappy admissions advisor? because if she picked up my application, I would shit myself.

[Gizmo says -]

you got unlucky at the same time she got unlucky wif a real crappy undred phone calls, macca.

as you know, two like forces next to each other in the puniverse repel strongly.

[JimminyCricket]

Originally Posted by Gizmo says -

you got unlucky at the same time she got unlucky wif a real crappy undred phone calls, macca.

as you know, two like forces next to each other in the puniverse repel strongly.

She knows that she is going to have students ringing up to ask questions/be sure. We all know websites - esp med school ones - can be ambiguous at times.

On a side note, I swear to God i had a feeling you'd be the first, and probably only person to reply to this thread.

Its like you have a radar, your very special Gizmo.

[Gizmo says -]

Originally Posted by JimminyCricket

She knows that she is going to have students ringing up to ask questions/be sure.

exactly, macca, spare a fort for her trying to get her paperwork done when the phone is ringing every three minutes.
do you fink you could cope with that all autumn and winter wiffout the occasional fall from grace?
ma admissions staff member i know regularly puts doon the phone on peeple, so you might count yourself not so badly off.

Its like you have a radar, your very special Gizmo.

fank you, macca. you are very kind to say so.

[Granny Midges]

JC
I've had a similar experience when I made some enquiries at a certain med school. I was really taken aback by the unhelpful tone and rather irritated attitude on the other end of the line. It's just all the more frustrating because to some extent our future lies in their hands ....Just don't let it get to you, not everyone is going to have impecable telephone manners ALL of the time -you got your answer smile and move on
GM
x

[JimminyCricket]

Originally Posted by Gizmo says -

exactly, macca, spare a fort for her trying to get her paperwork done when the phone is ringing every three minutes.
do you fink you could cope with that all autumn and winter wiffout the occasional fall from grace?
ma admissions staff member i know regularly puts doon the phone on peeple, so you might count yourself not so badly off.


fank you, macca. you are very kind to say so.

Don't thank me Gizmo, thank your creator you special thing you.

hehe

Yeah well, understandable, but the sighs and tone was a bit too much. I work in a place where I'm getting calls and complaints etc at all times of the day, but I'm paid to do that job, and I take it on the chin. I'm never rude and I've never put the phone down. The little shits.

[JimminyCricket]

Originally Posted by Granny Midges

JC
I've had a similar experience when I made some enquiries at a certain med school. I was really taken aback by the unhelpful tone and rather irritated attitude on the other end of the line. It's just all the more frustrating because to some extent our future lies in their hands ....Just don't let it get to you, not everyone is going to have impecable telephone manners ALL of the time -you got your answer smile and move on
GM
x

Yeah I know, thank you.

I'm just one of them people who like to be sure of what I'm doing. And if I was to (if it came to it) put down Leicester as a school on my UCAS, I'd want to be sure I'd done enough research to know I'd stand a chance. Its just manners really. I said above that I work in a role where I have people ringing/moaning/annoying me, but at the end of the day, HELLO thats your job.

Same goes to you, hope admissions are kinder when they come to actually looking at the forms :/

[Gizmo says -]

Originally Posted by JimminyCricket

Don't thank me Gizmo, thank your creator you special thing you.

hehe

Yeah well, understandable, but the sighs and tone was a bit too much. I work in a place where I'm getting calls and complaints etc at all times of the day, but I'm paid to do that job, and I take it on the chin. I'm never rude and I've never put the phone down. The little shits.

i dont agree wif them being rude, but i can see its wiffin the bounds of possibility, and quite often given the shite they put up wif.

i doubt you'd be nice to every customer unless you were told to and threatened wif the sack if not, macca, in your telephone job, expecially if every 3 outta 4 calls was an obvious question.
sometimes you gotta get peeple to work for you if you want summat.

of course, there is no need for anyone to be rude, lets not get off on the wrong foot ere. your customers are rude to you on the phone often, i warrant, but you arent going to be rude to them for asking (eg for the nth time why there phone battery is going dead too early when its all there in the instructions) when you want summat from them. likewise.

Use these peeple for your benefit macca. you need them on your side.
pretend you are trying to get promoted in a job.

[JimminyCricket]

Originally Posted by Gizmo says -

i dont agree wif them being rude, but i can see its wiffin the bounds of possibility, and quite often given the shite they put up wif.

i doubt you'd be nice to every customer unless you were told to and threatened wif the sack if not, macca, in your telephone job, expecially if every 3 outta 4 calls was an obvious question.
sometimes you gotta get peeple to work for you if you want summat.

of course, there is no need for anyone to be rude, lets not get off on the wrong foot ere. your customers are rude to you on the phone often, i warrant, but you arent going to be rude to them for asking (eg for the nth time why there phone battery is going dead too early when its all there in the instructions) when you want summat from them. likewise.

Use these peeple for your benefit macca. you need them on your side.
pretend you are trying to get promoted in a job.

Nice? Nahhh.

I'm going to go down to Leicester especially and cream pie her. with a cream cake.


No seriously my boss is WAAAY rude on the phone and encourages me to 'toughen up' with customers and I just can't do it cause I'm a wimp. And I feel bad. But granted, everyone isn't like that.

Anywhoo, I just hope it was more to do with her not having her breakfast than her thinking the Uni doesn't like Access 2 Med students.

[Gizmo says -]

i sent me admissions staff christmas card and chocs, if that elps.

and then...i am sure they luv access to med, or they soon will!