Administration?

i have been running around the entire day, trying to get together for lunch with Elephant and then running to immigration to settle some issues.

the problem here lies in that, i called up DIMIA last week, the guy knew i had a change of address, and he even asked for full address, i know he took it down or something, but apparently it might not have been updated on the system, even after he told me that there was NO address on the system whatsoever.

ok fine, i don’t care who’s reponsibility is it to report my change of address to the immigration. on the one hand, some rules page things mentioned that i have to update my address with school because it involves the immigration department, on the other hand some rude guy on the phone just now mentioned that i was the one who had to do it.

seems like everyone’s turning bitchy to me this week. i can be bitchy too, if i am that type of person, and go, i paid my fees and no one seemed to care to do anything properly.

and now i received a letter from uni, that i would be receiving similar information about reporting to DIMIA and halting the cancellation process via email.

HEY.

you guys DELETED ME. how the HELL am i SUPPOSED to received any EMAIL?

Extra sensory perception?

oh wait. let’s check out the postal acceptance rule, since technically, the uni is a business entity, and i am a consumer:

“Acceptance is complete as soon as the letter of acceptance is properly posted. The acce[tance is not affect by delay, destruction nor loss of the letters in the course of post, provided that the parties contemplated the post as a means of entering into contractual obligations.”

as stated by the high court judge in Tallennan & co Pty Ltd vs Nathan’s Merchandise (Vict) Pty Ltd (1957) (Dixon CJ amd Fullagar): “A finding that a contract is completed by the posting of a letter of acceptance cannot be justified unless it is inferred that the offeror contemplated and intended that the offer might be accepted by the doing of that act.”

ok, this is a poor attempt at applying this law since universities are vastly different from actual large companies, and it wasn’t really an acceptance or an offer. BUT, since they have indicated right at the start of my education that communications is going to be via email as much as possible, because of the turnaround time, and the same goes for the first email from them with regards to my show cause, it meant that everything is agreed and “fine with” that we perform this via email.

so that’s the “inferring” part down.

however, since my email system has always been really screwed (slow connection to it, sometimes even timing out, people complaining that they could NOT send me emails because they bounce back etc etc) and no one seems to want to admit to it, other than earlier this year when they advise us to delete our shit so that we could actually have a functional email system, how does that equate being properly sent?

a year ago, even the student admin tried to send me a show cause email which somehow subsequently failed to send. i have not question them about that, but since it failed, the show cause was waivered. an it didn’t seem to occur to anyone, HEY our email system has a problem, maybe we should send a letter out too so it’s NOT so unreliable.

but no. nothing happened.

and now, they expect to send stuff to my email account that has been deleted? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

it’s been a week. i have been begging for my email for one hell of a week. yes i am no longer paying gsf, no longer a part of anu, does that mean i am SECOND CLASS? yo.. even the worst of private schools still allow us access to our RESULTS and stuff for another month or so.

you just DELETED me the day after i was excluded, with NO information whatsoever. that in itself is TRAUMATIC enough.

but since according to the postal acceptance rule, you know, as long as they sent it, and it showed in their systems there was no bounce back (assuming that my email address is still within their system), i am legally “in the know” about it. i should have expected it, and geez, good god, i have extra sensory perception to know exactly who sent me what. it doesn’t matter what happens on my side, because i am no longer under your care, your jurisdiction, nor concern, as well as the fact that i am no longer paying you to do all that.

you know what? that hurts.

just in: they suddenly called after i sent out an email 30 mins ago begging them to reinstate my email AGAIN. they finally have my email up, and good god, check out the amounts of emails i have gotten. FROM THEM.

if that wasn’t bad enough, something made me laugh.

they reset my password.

they sent the reset notification to that email.

like hey, i didnt even had access to it, how the hell would i know that the password was changed, till the guy called me? funny systems they have.