Message-Id: <200208311913.PAA15019@bunsen-and-beaker.mit.edu>
To: in-house-pikans@MIT.EDU
Subject: PISSED!
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 15:13:22 -0400
From: Charles A Sievers <sievers@MIT.EDU>

	My "Dear" pika,

	Before I start this email I should probably say that I am very, very pissed right now and If I had a head on my shoulders I would wait a day before writing this.  To every one whose head I bit off this morning, sorry.  I spend half of this morning wading through clothes at Salvation Army and another place up on prospect street, to no avail.  My clothes, which were placed in a backpack by the washing machine.  Obviously they were not abandoned clothes.  (For one thing they were dirty and smelly.  Two, whatever, it's pointless now.)  In the end, they were placed in lost and found and then shipped away.

Oh, the reason that they were by the washer to begin with is that I got sick, missed a few days of work, and by the time I got better and returned for them, they were gone!

OK, this is why I'm really pissed.,  Ok, I can deal with losing half of my clothes.  Hey, it isn't something that I wished happened to me every day, but I could deal.  I'm pissed because of the lack of respect that pika has for other peoples and their belongings.  First of all, the bag should have never left the laundry room.  Granted, it was work-week and not a smart thing for me to leave the bag there to begin with, but I was pretty sick.  Second, I know that people new that that was my stuff in the lost and found, that it was even brought up in a house-meeting that someone should probably tack a couple of seconds to either inform me of the impending doom of my clothes or place them in a safe space where they wouldn't be thrown out.  Shit, one person and less than a minute of time would have been enough for me to keep my clothes.  But no, pika as an entity is a bitch who takes absolute no responsibility.  No wonder the house is always such a fuckin pig sty.  Nobody care, nob!
ody takes initiative.  The non-house managers say, fuck it, it's not my responsibility.  The house managers say, hey nobody is willing to help, I can't do it all myself. SO Fuck it.  (Ok, there are some exceptions and that may be a little harsh. There are some people who do work hard for pika. But there are way too few.)

OK.  I just want to say what my first reaction was when I found out what had happened to my clothes.  I wanted to go through and label the dates on all bags in the laundry area and then donate to good-will all the bags that have sat there for more than 3 days.  I wonder how many people would loose clothes if that were to happen.  Now I realize that this impulse is both immature and petty, so you clothes are safe. (At least from me, now if there safe from pika, that's another question entirely.)

OK>  My second reaction was to demand fiscal compensation from pika over the lost clothes.  But then realized that that was pointless.  They only way for me to get money from pika is to jip my soda bill.  Whatever, the money aspect of the whole thing isn't what is bugging me.

THIS IS WHAT I DEMAND FROM PIKA.  AN APOLOGY.  I want it brought up in a house meeting where the house votes and say, yes, as the house as a collective, we'
ve screwed up.  I'm not blaming this on any one person or group of people.  The system has a flaw in it and I deserves an apology.  I then want a house discussion on how the house feels on respecting personally property.  (Maybe that is best left to retreat, I don't know.)  

OK, I think I probably should end this email before I destroy this keyboard.

A kind of irked,

Charlie


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