The Spit in the Fahey Elevator and the Noble Monument

First, some context:

--- Forwarded Message from Brittany Medlin ---

>From: Brittany Medlin
>Date: 19 Oct 2009 11:47:36 -0400
>Subject: elevator clean up
>To: (Recipient list suppressed)

Hi [Fahey/McLane Dormitory floors] 2, 3, and 4,

I received the following information from operations:

10/15 McLane
elevator
spit all over number buttons and metal wall
$150.00

I think we can probably all agree that this was a pretty gross mess for the custodians to have to clean up. If anyone knows who is responsible or would like to take responsibility themselves, please let me or your UGA know ASAP. Otherwise, it is likely that the charge will be prorated to your floors.

Thank you,

Brittany
______________________________
Brittany Medlin
Community Director, Russell Sage Cluster
Office of Residential Life, Fahey 113
(603) 646-[XXXX]

--- Forwarded Message from Brittany Medlin ---

>From: Brittany Medlin
>Date: 20 Oct 2009 09:52:23 -0400
>Subject: charge reduction
>To: (Recipient list suppressed)

Hi Fahey Mclane 2, 3 and 4,

After reviewing respectful student input on this charge and in consultation with my colleagues in residential operations, this charge has been reduced to $50. Please note that I appreciate respectful responses to damage charges, however, not all of them are reducible or revocable. Thank you for being critically engaged with your residential experience.

Brittany

10/15 McLane
elevator
spit all over number buttons and metal wall
$150.00 - reduced to $50
______________________________
Brittany Medlin
Community Director, Russell Sage Cluster
Office of Residential Life, Fahey 113
(603) 646-[XXX]

I have a lot of problems with prorating cleaning costs over an entire dorm for reasons I will share with Ms. Medlin and perhaps this blog in a later post. Suffice it to say that my inbox is rather full of similar bills from Ms. Medlin for damages I have not caused in places I do not frequent. The purpose of this post is to highlight the humorous sign -- monument, really -- I found in the elevator (on this rare occasion that I used it to get to the basement) to the senseless amount money wasted in the clean-up. Click on the picture to enlarge it (the text is worth the read).


The ultimate irony is that when I returned to take a picture of the sign, someone had spit on it.