All of last week and most of this week, several employees at the
University of Ottawa have been peeling old gum off all those exam tables that
will be placed in the gyms. That is disgusting! You mean to tell me that people
cannot wait until they are done their exam and throw out their gum? Then some
of those people complain that everything is expensive, or that there is not
enough money for those things that they care about at the University…well, maybe
if staff weren’t forced to waste over seven days of work to peel off every
single piece of gum off of thousands of exam tables, these funds could be used
on those things that they care so much about!
Let’s break that down: four to
five people for over 7 days of work…about $ 6,000+. What’s worse; imagine that
you had to spend over 50 long hours scratching at old gum on the backs of tables,
or cleaning up a mess in residences (you cannot even imagine the worst of
them)… any volunteers?
The next time you are writing an exam, and feel the need to get rid of
your flavourless gum, just think of the person who is going to have to scratch
it off. Just wrap it (in a piece of anything!) and please wait until you can
throw it out.
-brigitte