Stuck in a System With Little Hope

Well, here comes some mighty venting. I am stuck in a situation that I got thrown into because of two things; ignorance and doing my job. Last night, I had a girl start doing moving stuffs in my dorm building, yet I didn't pick up on this until almost 10pm. When I finally stopped her, it was almost midnight, and I was planning on closing the office on time because this morning, I went swimming with a friend at 6:15-ish am. So, I am in the office this morning when the girl who checked in late last night came in, and another RA that I was working with asked her why she moved in anyway. She told us. The paperwork for the transfer got turned in, and about five minutes later, I get a call from the Housing Office saying that something was amiss. In my attempt to set things as straight as they could be, I was told to check my e-mail.

What would I see in my e-mail, but a note saying that what was done the previous night was illegal and that myself and an RA from another dorm building were both getting fined $50 for this move. Housing's reasoning is that the fault lies with the RAs and dorm coordinators, not the girls. Well, I don't have much money right now; in fact I have hardly any,yet here I am being held accountable for a situation that I was given no information about and waiting for my dorm coordinator to come back after her meeting this afternoon to let me know what happened. Hopefully things will be put straight. I accept the fact that I should have gone over to the other building and asked what was up, and yet I didn't. I will take responsibility for that. If that is worth a $50 fine, then gosh dang it, I don't want the job because all I did was my job. I was stuck with a homeless girl moving her stuffs into my dorm late at night.

I want to have this fine turned over. I can't afford it, nor should I be expected to pay it. It's a ridiculous situation that I'm fed up with. Maybe I will just stop being an RA come Spring term and apply for the internship that I've been interested in and take another class for the rest of my credits. I mean, I could learn to live on a small amount. I did a year ago, and I'm confident that if things were to come to that, then I will again.

This just sucks wenis!!!!!