Furious and fed up with spoiled students
November 3, 2009
It’s been two months since Parkhurst came to Mercyhurst and I’ve had enough. Not of Parkhurst, but of the students. People have noticed they can leave comments about the cafeteria and the posted comments clearly show how spoiled some people have become.
For instance, there have been numerous complaints of the Egan closing two hours earlier. First, if you are going to complain, learn how to spell. “Eagan?” “Outragious?” This is a college cafeteria, not an elementary cafeteria.
Anyways, people are demanding they get their money back for the reduction in hours. I know, you pay $30,000 and think you are entitled to everything. If you are going to invest $30,000, maybe you should do some research.
You chose to come here. Which means you should have eaten here to see what the food was like. Had you done that, you would have found out the cafeteria used to close at 6 p.m.
When I was a freshman, if you didn’t make it to the cafeteria by 6 p.m., you ate from the vending machine, found a microwave to make Ramen or walked to Arby’s.
And there was no such thing as a to-go box.
But you pay $30,000 and can’t eat at the cafeteria and then ask for a to-go box. You also can’t ask for a to-go box at Old Country Buffet.
I know, but you did your research and came here because they said the cafeteria would be open till midnight this year. But then they changed it and you want your money back. Do you demand money back when your professor cancels class? You paid to have your professor teach you for 20 classes a term. How dare he or she only teaches you 18 classes. You should demand money back because you don’t know how to spell “Egan.”
Seriously, I don’t think we are ever going to be satisfied. People want Reese’s Puffs and Lucky Charms all the time and then someone wants less sugary cereals. It wasn’t good enough to put out hot chocolate unless they put out marshmallows. American, Swiss, Cheddar and Pepper jack cheese is not good enough. You need Provolone all the time. This is a cafeteria, not a cheese factory.
Sure, I would like to see a racquetball court, more parking and a beer fountain. However, since I decided to pay $30,000 to come here, I knew what the college had and what it would not have. When you pay $30,000 to come here, it is your responsibility to know what the campus is like and not be a whining brat, demanding the college fulfill your every want.
thevgirl • Nov 5, 2009 at 10:50 am
How can you actually believe that those comments portray how spoiled Mercyhurst students are?
First of all, I do not think that the way the comments are written is relevant, because students and/or whoever goes to Egan cafeteria to eat and at the end they decide to write a comment, on the spur of the moment. Besides, what actually matters is what the comment says, which is actually for the benefit of the cafeteria and the students as well, they do not have the application that Microsoft Word has, or whatever other program has, for spell check, or they have someone to proof read their comment like YOU DO before your article is published in the Merciad. Therefore, it is obvious most of those comments will have spelling and/or grammar mistakes.
Second of all, we are all customers of this company. Fortunately, for them, they have the comparative advantage over their service, since they are the only supplier of food ON-campus. Parkhurst is a business, and it needs feedback from its customers in order to operate and provide their service and produce their goods at the quality that is satisfactory for the people who consume their goods/services- in this case students. Therefore, those yellow rectangular pieces of paper you see posted on the cafeteria’s bulletin board are actually comments used as FEEDBACK for the staff of Parkhurst to do better in their performance of both providing a service and producing goods (food). I do not believe you seriously want low quality food, or are you going to say yes? I doubt it. However, it is true some of those comments are somehow irrelevant, as your opinion in this article is, but believe it or not Parkhurst do take into consideration the comments that students write on those rectangular sheets of paper, because is their job to SUPPLY the goods/services their customers DEMAND, at the quality they think it should be. It sounds like a business or an economics class what I’m saying, but that is how the real world works.
So the next time you want to write an of opinion like that on whatever the matter is, please try to think more in depth the whys of the situation and the whole purpose of it!!