Welcome to this continuation of my last post about uploading documents to Disney Onboarding Central. As you will learn when you complete this stage of the application, the PSSF requires all it's own steps. Once you have a completed one in your hand it's easy but getting it filled in is the hard part.
After breaking my promises to myself that I wouldn't upload anything I was left with the one thing I absolutely couldn't upload until Monday. And I was excited, let me tell you.
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Such excitement.
When Sunday night finally rolled around I tried to prepare. I printed out the PSSF and started filling in the top section.
TIP NO.1: Print out extra forms.
Last Name: Elizabe- Nope. *angry scrunching sound* *printer whirring*
Okay. New form.
First semester/
Last Name: E- Again, really?
You get the point. After printing out six, get that SIX, forms I finally got it right. I may have been a little precious about it, I mean I did throw one out because my signature looked too messy, but most of them were irreversible mistakes. With a clean, perfect form in my hand and a plan in my mind I was ready to face Monday.
The next morning I was on the bus at 11. Keep in mind that I don't normally get up until then. I got to uni a whole two hours early to get this done. Enter a stage of my application that I lovingly refer to as 'Finding the Man with the Stamp'.
TIP NO. 2: Don't look for just any rep. Look for the 'Man with the Stamp'
The PSSF is quite vague about who your 'school's representative' has to be. Can it be a teacher? A course co-ord? A student wearing a clever disguise? Literally nobody knows. The only thing the form is specific about is that the signature of the representative must be accompanied by the school's official seal. So my theory was: find the seal and you find your rep. Simple enough, right? Only if your school knows where they keep their seal.
My first stop was The Hub which is our one stop shop for student issues. Want to pay some fees? The Hub. Want your student card? The Hub. Want your concession transport card filled in for you? The Hub. I didn't realize until that day that there are some things that the Hub just can't do.
TIP NO. 3: Go straight to your own department.
The guy at the Hub was super nice but just had zero idea what I was on about. He managed to tell me when my official end date would be but that was about it. He still kept me waiting for around ten minutes while he looked at the form confused. After ten minutes of umm-ing and errr-ing he told me to talk to my department and sent me away. To top it all off he'd given me the date but I'd written it in the wrong place so I had to start a seventh form! He was a lovely guy but honestly I wish he'd just admitted that he didn't know and sent me on my way instead of wasting my time.
So I headed over to my department a block or two away. At reception the receptionist asked me to call my course co-ord with the inter-office phone on the wall. On the phone I explained what I needed. He also kind of umm-ed and err-ed until he eventually asked to see the form. I handed over a completely new form because all of my hard work had been ruined by my mishap at the Hub. He looked really confused until I asked about the official seal. His face lit up and he said excitedly "Brendon has that!"
A few minutes later Brendon, our course administrator, wanders over as the co-ord beckons for him to join us. Brendon sweeps across the form, nodding all the way and finally says "Yeah, I can do this." I nearly started a full cheer routine complete with spontaneous doppelgangers. As it turns out the official stamp was just in the receptionist's desk. It had been under our noses all along. After an hour of waiting, confusion and more waiting I had finally found the man with the stamp.
Brendon then took away the form and returned a few minutes later with the whole thing filled in. Even the section I was supposed to fill. It was all perfect, it was all signed and it was stamped. I was so excited that I went straight to my building's library to scan it in. It was then that I hit my next obstacle of the day, the scanners.
TIP NO. 4: Do not use your school's scanners if you are not experienced with them.
In all honesty, deciding to use the scanners at school was a huge mistake. I tried to convince myself to leave the library and just do it at home but I couldn't. My brain kept conjuring up ridiculous situations where the form got ruined before I got home. So I had to do it then. Sadly there are some real inconsiderate people at RMIT.
TIP NO. 5: Always account for assholes.
First I asked the librarian how to use the scanners and he just kind of pointed vaguely to the other side of the room and mumbled something about the instructions being on the scanners. I wandered over to where the scanners were but the computers were all full. Silly me. I thought that the rule was: scan your thing and move to another computer, but apparently no one else knew that. Some people were doing hours worth of photo manipulation projects while others appeared to be playing...Minecraft? Why do you even need a scanner for Minecraft?
Anyway. The fact that I was standing around impatiently didn't seem to phase any of the people on the scanners. My brain was fighting itself as to whether I should say something but I wasn't 100% on the rules about them so I decided just to use the global printers. Sounded easy enough.
TIP NO. 6: Global printers do not make good scanners.
The global printers are those huge printers that do everything and they do it fast. Printing, copying, scanning, faxing on any kind of paper as many times as you like. I pop over to the global printer, log in, chuck the form under the lid and press scan. But instead of just doing the swooshy blue light thing that my home scanner does, a billion and one options come up on the screen. At this point I'm ready to throw in the towel. I try to log out and leave but it won't let me. I can't just leave my log in on the global, people will use up all my printing money.
I try again. I can't make any sense of any of the options. I'm just pushing random buttons now and none of them seem to be working. A guy comes up behind me waiting for the printer. I tell him that I'm having trouble and that it might be a while. Instead of going to use on of the other four printers we have in the library, he takes me on as a charity case and tries to help.
Too bad he also has no idea what to do.
TIP NO. 7: Only accept help from useful people.
So here's me and this other student. Both standing by the printer, wildly pressing buttons as nothing substantial happens. Until I spy the email option. It's not exactly desirable but if it will help me get out of this situation then I'll take it. I type in my email and click send. A notification on my phone tells me that I received it. Now that my scanning is done I try to log out again. It still doesn't work.
We go back to pressing anything that looks promising until suddenly the screen freezes and then goes completely white. The printer has crashed. Completely and utterly crashed. Me and the other student look to each other and then slowly back away from the printer pretending it wasn't us. Knowing that my log in won't still be there after a reboot, I leave before the situation becomes even more awkward.
In the space of two hours I managed to fill in a form wrong, confuse at least three people and break one of the school's printers. Congrats to me.
While waiting for class to start I uploaded the completed (finally) PSSF to DOC and with that I was finally done. Since then I have heard nary a word from Disney. But it's coming soon. I can feel it in me bones.
TIP NO. 8: It all works out in the end.
- Lily
YO HO YO HO A CM LIFE FOR ME. Tune in next time for....something fun, I promise.
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