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So I handle the keys at the college I work at. Anyone and everyone has to go through me to get keys. One of the maintanence guys (M) makes copies for me when I need them. Since this is the beginning of Fall Semester, it's been very busy and I've run out of a lot of keys. We've also been recovering from a lot of construction over the summer.
One of these construction projects was to turn an old dark room in a non photography class room into a storage room. When I found out they were doing that, I went down myself to see what the key for the new room was. I also know that I don't have any copies of it except the original which I don't give out.
One of our faculty came up and turned in a key request. Having seen that door, I know already that I don't have a copy of that key. I didn't even have to check. He gives me the cheerful grumpiness of "Well you know, I'm going to need this key soon. Could you please try to make sure that it's gotten to me as soon as possible?" I informed him that I would make it as soon as possible all the while wanting to say, "No sir, of course not, I usually handle these key requests at a snails pace and do them only when I feel like it." If I get a key request, I'm going to handle it as soon as I can.
I then am checking my email a couple minutes later and recieve the following awesomeness...
"I just spoke with M. He says that what I need is a ---- key. Would you happen to have one??" That's right. He tried to go over my head (good luck, M is in a different department than I am so all you're accomplishing is being an ass) and call what he thought to be a bluff. Good job. If I say I don't have a key, I don't have that key. Oh and when you request a key from me, I am not just pulling key codes out of my ass. I actually have this handy little book that tells me what the key code is. Very rarely am I wrong about it and that's usually because M goes and changes the key core without telling me that the codes are going to change (he's usually actually good about telling me though) or because the last guy on the job was an idiot. So if I say I don't have a key, then I don't have it.
And by the way, if you want to play the "going to someone higher up" game, congrats. You'll love hearing from my Chief about how you were being an ass and if I say you have to wait, then you have to wait and there will be no more going to M to pull that shit. Also, apparently they are also going to tell M not to tell people that stuff anymore and that if they want to know what key goes to what door, they can come to me about it.
That email just pissed me off to no end. He's not the only one waiting on keys and considering M had to return some keys to me today anyway, his won't take as long as other people's will. Usually it takes a bit longer because M also has other jobs and has to do keys when he can. Considering we have police officers who have no problem opening doors for faculty (it's a big part of their job), if there's a bit of a wait, it may be inconvinient, but they can still get in. I don't know what it is, but the faculty is really not endearing themselves with me all that much this year.
One of these construction projects was to turn an old dark room in a non photography class room into a storage room. When I found out they were doing that, I went down myself to see what the key for the new room was. I also know that I don't have any copies of it except the original which I don't give out.
One of our faculty came up and turned in a key request. Having seen that door, I know already that I don't have a copy of that key. I didn't even have to check. He gives me the cheerful grumpiness of "Well you know, I'm going to need this key soon. Could you please try to make sure that it's gotten to me as soon as possible?" I informed him that I would make it as soon as possible all the while wanting to say, "No sir, of course not, I usually handle these key requests at a snails pace and do them only when I feel like it." If I get a key request, I'm going to handle it as soon as I can.
I then am checking my email a couple minutes later and recieve the following awesomeness...
"I just spoke with M. He says that what I need is a ---- key. Would you happen to have one??" That's right. He tried to go over my head (good luck, M is in a different department than I am so all you're accomplishing is being an ass) and call what he thought to be a bluff. Good job. If I say I don't have a key, I don't have that key. Oh and when you request a key from me, I am not just pulling key codes out of my ass. I actually have this handy little book that tells me what the key code is. Very rarely am I wrong about it and that's usually because M goes and changes the key core without telling me that the codes are going to change (he's usually actually good about telling me though) or because the last guy on the job was an idiot. So if I say I don't have a key, then I don't have it.
And by the way, if you want to play the "going to someone higher up" game, congrats. You'll love hearing from my Chief about how you were being an ass and if I say you have to wait, then you have to wait and there will be no more going to M to pull that shit. Also, apparently they are also going to tell M not to tell people that stuff anymore and that if they want to know what key goes to what door, they can come to me about it.
That email just pissed me off to no end. He's not the only one waiting on keys and considering M had to return some keys to me today anyway, his won't take as long as other people's will. Usually it takes a bit longer because M also has other jobs and has to do keys when he can. Considering we have police officers who have no problem opening doors for faculty (it's a big part of their job), if there's a bit of a wait, it may be inconvinient, but they can still get in. I don't know what it is, but the faculty is really not endearing themselves with me all that much this year.
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