Owing to the recent release of the A205 “mold report” and recent DtB posts, there was a fair amount of angry mold buzzage at the college today.
Lots of folks dropped by to offer their two cents. “Sure,” they said, “Glenn cares about bullshit like IVC becoming an earthquake command center [he wants “employees” to “facilitate the continuity of government” post temblor] but he couldn’t care less that toxic stachybotrys mold is growing in a classroom fewer than a hundred yards from his office,” said some wag.
“If there isn’t a photo op in it for him, Glenn doesn’t give a shit about it,” said another.
Some expressed concern: “Hey,” they said, “should I worry about my office? I share a wall with A205.” –Stuff like that.
I still haven’t had a chance to read the report, but I’m told that, according to the report, hideous black mold was found on A205’s “west wall.”
The west wall? I consulted my mental map: “That would be the wall on the internal, not the external wall (i.e., the wall contiguous with other rooms in A200), right? How can that be?”
I consulted the concrete map of the college found on the IVC website. Here’s an even better image:
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| There is no "west wall" of A205; rather, there is a northwest wall and a southwest wall |
Since it is nearest to the exterior, the southwest wall is the likely culprit. (No. See update below.) It is about seven feet from my (and Rebel Girl’s) office. (See blue X.) We are separated from the (southern part of the) mold wall by a court or quadrangle area that is about seven feet wide, one of IVC's inexplicable nooks (mirrored by identical pointless nookage on the other side of the building).
Gosh.
It looks like there’s a growing interest among A200 denizens in extending mold inspections beyond A205.
But don’t worry. If that happens, since Glenn and Craig are in charge, no action will be taken for another two months or so.
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| From the recently released report |
15 comments:
Where I work, the college president make a point of walking through the halls at least once a week, greeting students and staff, asking about how things are going. I think she spends about 15-20 minutes each day, shifting times and buildings. It makes a real difference. Students know who she is so when something real does occur, they feel like they can go to her. Staff too.
It is NOT Black Mold.
Isn't the "stachybotrys" cited above a black mold?
Technically it is a "greenish" black mold.
Shouldn't they inform the people who work (and study) throughout the building -and certainly those who share walls with the toxic classroom? Don't they have a legal and ethical obligation to do that?
Yea, feeling good solves the problem. Sounds like window dressing to me. Your president is no more a problem solver than any other politician.
Meanwhile, over in the student services building, I hear they canned the competent and well-liked coordinator of the veterans' center and replaced him with an incompetent crony...
That's standard operating procedure in A100, Linda can bring in her "cronies" because Richard was allowed to bring in his.
10:47 is right, I have watched the hiring "game" played there. They bring someone in on a contract basis, then they become a temporary employee, then the post the position opening and of course stack the hiring committee so their candidate makes the top 3. At the next level it's a done deal as they get to make the final pick.
Why not just hire their friends and quit wasting time and energy putting on a charade making believe they are following policy. Everyone knows the games being played in A100. We're just tired of being "played" and "gamed" by the administration.
Come on. Their friends need jobs too!
Ok, but let's quit wasting everyone else's valuable time going through the charade.
The answer - workman's comp. A colleague at another college experienced respiratory issues due to mold in his building and although complained multiple times about health issues, very little was done. Once he filed workman's comp, they are falling all over themselves replacing water damaged ceiling tiles, cleaning vents, anything they can do to clean up mold and other water-related issues.
But what about the health of the students? Workman's comp is not available to them.
Oh man, that sucks about the mold near the offices. By law don't they have to get that all cleared out? I would file a complaint with the health board b/c it's a hazard to both instructors and students. It would be one hefty law suit if anyone, like a student were to get sick b/c of the exposure to a physically toxic environment b/c the district failed to act.
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