rights in university accommodation

Davesnave

missbiggles1 wrote: »

In my student days, on sheet changing day, the cleaners used to shout "sheets" as they opened the door to drop them inside.

Your experience was clearly more recent than mine, the cleaners having evolved a more succinct cry.

Ours always shouted, "D'ya want fresh linen?" which is quite a mouthful, especially when it must be repeated 250 times!

Guest101

Contact the communications team and ask them to comment. Universities do not need bad publicity like this and a local paper would lap it up.


The communications team (PR basically) will sort it, as it's easier to have a word with estates management / house keeping than have someone go to the papers


- also, evicted? not a chance. Universities tend to turn a blind eye so as to not raise negative publicity.

DRP

I don't thinkt this is anything to do with rights or type of contract.

Contact the Accommodation office and make a complaint - I'm sure they will act, as Universities are usually very sensitive to this kind of thing.

By act, i mean they will remind their staff that before gaining access, they ensure no one is in or that the occupant is happy for them to enter.

booksurr

DRP wrote: »

I don't thinkt this is anything to do with rights or type of contract.

Contact the Accommodation office and make a complaint - I'm sure they will act, as Universities are usually very sensitive to this kind of thing.

By act, i mean they will remind their staff that before gaining access, they ensure no one is in or that the occupant is happy for them to enter.

agreed 100%

the same principle as with chambermaids and hotels - they must ensure they have heard any answer before entering

dc197

missbiggles1 wrote: »

In my student days, on sheet changing day, the cleaners used to shout "sheets" as they opened the door to drop them inside.

Your uni was posher than mine. We had to change our own sheets, which meant (until there was a chance of someone else smelling them) they rarely got changed.

missbiggles1

dc197 wrote: »

Your uni was posher than mine. We had to change our own sheets, which meant (until there was a chance of someone else smelling them) they rarely got changed.

Oh, we had to change our own sheets, the clean ones were just dropped off, they didn't actually put them on the bed for you!

TrickyDicky101

dc197 wrote: »

Your uni was posher than mine. We had to change our own sheets, which meant (until there was a chance of someone else smelling them) they rarely got changed.

Same with mine - I was in a lads' hall and when some of us had to change the sheets it wasn't so much a case of folding them up but rather snapping them over the knee...


Fortunately I learned basic domestic chores the following year.

Rosemary7391

What happened afterwards? My reaction would be different if the person coming in realised their mistake and closed the door again, or if I'd pointed out I'd said to wait and got an apology. I probably wouldn't complain in that case.