Amazingly Slow
23 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
Today we live in the 21st century, the new millennium which was welcomed with great anticipations for what it behold in its pages of evolutions and wonders. These developments gave this period the name of speed, the period of technology that made the world a touch away. But seems that some of this University employees think that they are still living in the 19th century. It seems like some of its employees don’t use the technology that is available to everyone. So we see these employees arrive to their workplace late an hour or more from the actual timing, which I believe is an exaggeratory time to reach the university. Last week I spent 5 days, Sunday to Thursday going to one of the employees to meet him at 9 AM per day, and I was surprised to see that a pile of dust is living on his desk, and the moss has started to grow on his keyboard because the employee rarely uses it. That is why it seems like we have to forget that we are at the “Age of Speed” when we enter this University. However we have to be fare to the people who uses this technologies at this University, a good example for it are the student. As we hurry every day to open the laptop lid , then enter the password, and when the screen glow on our sparkling sleepy eye, as we start pointing the pointer to the Group Wise icon, either at home or the university, the other disaster appear in front of our eyes, the Group Wise does not work. This lead to the retardation of university services and the breakage of the connection bridge between the student and the departments within this academic structure, which should be referred to as a bee not a turtle. But we forget all that and go through our day, but most probably our life will stop again at 12 PM, because when we speed up to reach the canteen to avoid the crowed at the rush hour we confront another slowness roadblock. Personally I don’t dare to go to the cafeteria at that time because it’s the “horror hour” when you don’t find a place to foot your step, and no oxygen to breath. If you are lucky and made it to the front line then forget your luck and welcome to the world on infinite slowness to get a food service that is not even up to the standard. One day I didn’t have a lot of time, the clock was indicating 12: 40, and I had worked hard on a project that day. Now I have a race against time, I have 20 minutes to grab a sandwich, eat it, and then run back to class that will last from 01:00 to 04:30 PM. I was thrilled to see the counter of one of the cafeterias has no customers, so I ordered 4 sandwiches for me and my friend and grabbed the closest table to that cafeteria and sat down. And here I am getting another shock when my friend came back from the cafeteria for the millionth time saying that the sandwiches aren’t ready yet. We waited for 15 minutes until our order was finally ready. The chicken was cooked and half eaten when we first reached the cafeteria, so does really chopping the chicken and gathering it in a bread takes 15 minutes. I think that the answer is very clear, and the message in what is written above is more obvious. The slowness of the services in the university have really became a phenomena. That is why we should learn a lesson from the slaying of his highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid when he said: “every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up realizing that he should run faster than a lion or death will be his destiny, and every morning in Africa a lion wakes up knowing that he should run faster than the slowest gazelle or he will die from hunger, it doesn’t matter in you are a gazelle or a lion when the sun emerges you have to run as fast as you can.”
