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People who cant scan their student card into the Library

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    #32
    parker kent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,289 ✭✭✭parker kent


    Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »
    I have been in this college several years and never had problems getting into the library until this year where it now at times takes me a couple of swipes to be let through. It's the machine imo.

    Its the new cards...the machines are the same machines as in previous years. The machines were grand before, its the crappy, last-forever student cards.


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    #33
    El Siglo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭El Siglo


    Patience goes a long way folks!:D If you think the UCD scanners are bad, trinity is a fucking joke. You have to swipe the card, never works properly.


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    #34
    parker kent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,289 ✭✭✭parker kent


    betafrog wrote: »
    Nope, the machines have always been ****ty.

    But the machines were not causing as much problems as has been caused since last Sept when the new cards came in. The library staff agree it is the new cards, they were made to save money and some of the bar codes are quite faded. It is much worse than before, the machines haven't changed, the cards have.


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    #35
    passive
    Registered Users Posts: 2,403 ✭✭✭passive


    Maybe you've got some new problem this year that makes capable and intelligent people unable to swipe them, but all I saw in the 3 years I spent in UCD was the gob****es the OP described pushing the thing sideways, upside down, or trying to rub it in with their forehead... Sadly manners prevented me from expressing my "Argh, for the love of Christ just do it properly!" feelings... But I guess that's what the internet is for.

    Actually, the above exaggerations were unnecessary.. It was generally just people rubbing it really roughly against the glass, at an angle, to make sure it can't possibly scan it, and the glass will be scratched for the next person. I have definitely been stuck behind people leaving the library, though admittedly less than going in... Maybe the fact that there are more exit barriers means they get less used, so less worn. And maybe a completely new and shiny barrier is able to handle the idiotic fumblings well enough to let them by... *shrug*


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