“ORIENTATION WEEK JOBS POSTING! PSYCH! WE ALREADY HAVE PEOPLE IN MIND.”
It's that time of the year again folks! UTMSU is hiring (drum roll please)... ORIENTATION COORDINATORS! Well let's just be honest here. UTMSU's choice of words is a bit misleading if you ask us. The poster should read UTMSU is NOW APPOINTING THE NEW ORIENTATION COORDINATORS. PLEASE APPLY SO THAT WE LOOK LIKE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. Let us recap on what happened last year's hiring process for Orientation coordinators.
The following contenders for the interview last year 2011 were as follows:
Kevin R, Julien N, Seif A, Mark Q, Andy B, Kushbu P, Grissel C, Faduma G, Mark M. If there were any others that we have missed either they were not important or were not disclosed.
The interviewers were given a time slot and were to prepare a 30 minute presentation for the hiring committee illustrating in detail their plan for the upcoming Frosh Week. The hiring committee consisted of the following members - Gilbert C (incoming president), Vickita B (outgoing president), Neghan A (incoming VP Internal), Kumari G (outgoing VP Equity), Ruba E (incoming Vp Equity), and Elleni J (Previous OC whom sat in as a non-voting member).
Kevin R delivered his presentation and was applauded for his interesting ideas and exciting visions for Frosh Week. He seemed too confident and naive to take on the challenges of being OC. His leadership skills also needed polishing as he always seems to be the follower of crowds.
Julien N spent most of his presentation asking rhetorical questions and critiquing the quality of photographs from past frosh events. His ticket had also lost the Athletic Council elections by a landslide which explains the OC application being his last resort to regain some sort of status at UTM. More time to prepare would have probably deemed him competent enough for the position.
Seif A was never a 'safe' choice to begin with. He thought he was cool enough to walk into a professional interview with a T-shirt on. He obviously did not take the position seriously. With the movie “TRON” as a theme choice for Frosh, it made us wonder why he even tried in the first place. We do applaud him for securing a position as a UTMAC executive. I guess we all know why nothing was promoted well this year. Intramurals? Health week?
Mark Q and Andy B's interview was highly anticipated. They were the only candidates who decided to apply as a team. They seemed pretty promising as they declared their candidacy for the position. Mark Q was a dedicated committee member of Frosh 2010 and a talented graphic designer. Andy is an established and experienced Frosh Leader who has successfully in part organized the first annual Science Formal. They were definitely looked forward to at the interview. The only issue is, when you walk into an interview assuming you have the position and your presentation is disappointing it's a sign that you need to keep your ego in check. Andy always bragged about Science Formal and enjoys hopping from one bandwagon of friends to the next. Talk about Crew Love. Mark Q isn't a saint himself, he as well tried to pump up the Facebook groupies by sending indirect motivational comments on Andy's wall with regards to the upcoming interview date. It's a shame that they didn't walk the walk as much as they talked the talk. Oh well.
Kushbu P was an interesting candidate. She was not a leader for about a million years! Word has it that she wasn't the greatest leader at frosh, yet she popped out of nowhere with flyers, hand outs, figures and forcasts when she was not even present for the previous frosh years. Obviously Vickita (whom she was an associate to for the term) provided her with the information she needed to prepare for the interview. It was Vickita's way of thanking her for all the work and bullshit she's put up with.. Also, apparently when other candidates asked her for the same documentation, she told them that she couldn't find it. This is transparency UTMSU style.
Grissel C (another committee member from 2010 Frosh) has also presented her experiences that qualify her for the challenge and vision for Frosh 2011. Vickita smiled and nodded. When asked “ If you do not get the position will you still be involved in Frosh?” she answered without hesitation “ I have already served as a leader and a committee member, I am looking for a more challenging position that will allow me to grow as a professional and personally. So with all due respect, I am not interested in becoming a leader or a committee member. That chapter in my life has been covered.”
Faduma G was applying for the Orientation Coordinator for the second time. Before she was not granted the position because she was deemed inexperienced. She has been both a leader and committee member. Rumor has it though, her application was a day late and declared that due to extenuating circumstances she was unable to make the deadline. Interestingly enough she was not granted an appeal at first but after continuous set of talks she was required to provide supporting documentation. This meant that she had to provide personal information about her family situation and medical documentation which was something UTMSU had no right to ask for. This by far was one of the most disgusting acts from UTMSU we have ever heard of. Our apologies go out to the individual who feels exploited in this sensitive situation. We know these things because we have ears inside and outside of the UTMSU office and we will let the masses know so that this doesn’t happen to anyone else. Bitch please, even the Office of the Registrar will let you defer an exam with appropriate documentation. She was granted an interview even though she had withdrawn her application due to mistreatment. She felt uncomfortable at first but was convinced by UTMSU to come to the interview. Her interview wasn't terrible, but it must have been awkward. Of course it was awkward, she was it was given to her and in return they had a piece of her life she never wanted to reveal to a bunch of strangers. Her interview didn't really impress the committee so any hope of ever getting hired with UTMSU has gone down the toilet.
Mark M, a GG Squad Member decided to suit up for his interview. He was a frosh leader who always neglected his froshies to go spinning on his head on a cardboard taped to the concrete. His interview was said to have been amazing and he was an eloquent speaker and very confident at that. He wowed his audience by regurgitating figures and promises that were soon to be the downfall of UTM Orientation Coordinator history. Lester was a GG squad OC member, his legacy was passed down to Mitch, Another OC and later on you have Mark M carrying a torch that was too hot for him to handle. Everyone now knows that he deserves an Oscar for fooling the Orientation hiring committee into appointing an incompetent individual to orchestrate an event catering to over a thousand guests. Want to know a secret that isn't a secret anymore? His interview and application were done for him by someone else. All he had to do was memorize a script.
In the end, the hiring committee has selected Kushbu P and Mark M to coordinate frosh for the poor civilians coming into first year as of September 2011. Andy B was openly bitter and posted a sour yet congratulatory message on Facebook to the candidates whom were chosen to run 2011's frosh week. Among other comments of mixed feelings and jokes, Mark M had also commented stating that he himself was was surprised that he was given the position. The comment was immediately taken down as obviously this drew a lot of attention from friends (Many of whom were applying to be leaders). He was advised to take it down because such a comment would shed light on the issue concerning the lack of integrity presented by the hiring committee.
What a disaster. You can't even start a black-light pub party without an angry mob of froshies and leaders impatiently waiting for the doors to open for over an hour? What happened? Oh yeah, the DJ didn't show up so they had to book a random guy to play music. One of the days had several straight hours of downtime! One froshie was witnessed to have left the entire event frustrated and stating “I'm going home, this sucks! I'm not going to sit for another hour of this bull shit!” even after a leader assured that it will get better. One of the venues was canceled for a clubbing night so the blind duck was used as back up. This cancellation happened on the day of the trip. Leaders were eating before their frosheis. Even when some of us leaders were helping clean up there weren't enough hands to help. On the day of the carnival, Kush didn't look like she knew what she was doing she just stood there with a walkies-talkie in her hand. Mark was chasing first-year girls with water balloons and everyone else was looking to rake in some free stuff before they took their naps for the evening. We had water balloons thrown at our froshies and one of them was crying because it hurt. So I had to take her to the red couches in the RAWC for her to calm down and grabbed a snow-cone for her. After that I attended to my other froshies. Oh yeah, did we mention we didn't even get our t-shirts on time? I asked Gilbert what's next on the schedule since I lost my card, he just told us to “go with the wind”. WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?! We were exhausted and there were so many things wrong with frosh that we all stopped caring altogether. The only thing that kept us going was how happy the froshies were. Then it hit us, they were happy because they had never experienced a better frosh. This was their first one. But boy would they be mad if they knew how good we had it. Anyways Mark and Kush sucked as OC's and the people couldn't have it any other way. But let that be a lesson to UTMSU that they cannot get away with such trashy behavior. Hiring noobs will only get you noob quality work. We would probably be safer with Seif as an OC. Just kidding. But really...
We can honestly hope for a Frosh week that was not as traumatizing as the one we have just endured. This brings us to the OC applications for the 2012 frosh week! After such a stressful and misguided week there will definitely be a few upcoming and determined OC candidates whom are striving to be THE ONE that revives Frosh from the pits of hell where Mark, Kush and the rest of the UTMSU noobs left it. So who will be the ones to take that initiative and fight for one of the two spots in that position?
Rumor has it that a few candidates have already expressed their interest and are willing to stop at nothing to get there.
Here are a few of the people who are interested in applying for 2012 orientation coordinator jobs:
Johnathan R: an epic leader who serves in UTMSU as an associate to VP external, Munib Sajjad. Johnathan is a well rounded individual who aspires to become a teacher one day. He has already submitted his application to teacher's college soon and so his fate will be determined on how soon he hears back form the admissions department. Otherwise it's all about Frosh for him this summer. His voice is a bit loud and annoying but he can definitely hype up a crowd although it didn't seem so during the Drop fee's rally with a disappointing turnout.
Nerissa B: A past leader and current executive of the Style And Profile committee on campus. She was a friendly server at the pub and the friendliness went away as she became busy with Style and Profile. If shadiness is the attitude that is favored upon a hiring committee then she is definitely on her way to becoming the next OC. Lest we forget however, when she would drink during frosh week and not give a damn about anything. Countless times we would keep this a secret from the OCs and executives. Someone who smuggles alcohol during frosh week especially around froshies and shares with the leaders does not sound like an ideal candidate for OC. Then again, if the hiring committee wants to take a chance at this one because she threw a nice one time fashion show, then be our guest. But people will remember that.
Kevin R: Maybe his involvement in UCS has allowed him to mature. But how safe is it to have an active participant of Biz-frosh to be running UTMSU frosh? That sounds like a conflict of interest if you ask us. He appeared to be a negligent frosh leader this year as well. His cliquey behavior with other leaders is definitely not OC material.
Faduma G: Rumored to have been applying again for OC but has explicitly expressed that she is not interested in taking on such a position as her past experience as an applicant was hurtful and unpleasant. She wasn't all that memorable anyway so it's best she just stays away form this sort of thing. In other words, she isn't cut out for it.
Andrei G: A cliquey guy. A follower. Nothing new.
Mohammed S: The obnoxious “Call me Suli” kid who makes antisemitic jokes at EVERYONE! He is loud, rude and just inequitable altogether. How did he become a leader? In a perfect world this wouldn't happen. Bottom line, he is NOT OC material.
Lara S: The girl that randomly made it to the committee for 2011 frosh. She did it for the jersey people. She was also running around aimlessly with a clipboard in her hand the entire week. What is she doing? Don't worry people, she doesn't know either.
We're guessing UTMSU is not happy with the selection of certain people who are applying to become Orientation Coordinators. Rumor has it that there is a ticket running this year again. Certain executive members and directrors (Walied and Gilbert) have been running around campus being extremely nice to those whom they believe are writing Big Word On Campus. Well they're just acting on fear. It's a normal human weakness. UTMSU we know you're scared. Cut the crap and stop sucking up to those of us who want nothing to do with the Union.
There are probably more people running for Orientation Coordinators but only two get selected. You be the judge UTM. Even though UTMSU get's the last word on who gets picked for such a task, it is you the people who get to choose to be leaders under the OCs. We the writers at Big Word On Campus have spoken. It's your turn to take a stand.
