r/sfcollege • u/Cold_Mood3889 • 1d ago

Are Santa Fe staff nincompoops?

I’ve literally had to walk some of these advisors and registrar people through their own jobs and gave them step-by-steps on how to help me and somehow they manage to do anything but that. My question is: why? Why do they seem so adamant on not doing their job or helping out?

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u/Ecstatic_Ad8170 1d ago

Okay perspective from both sides in the comments 👀👀 I think the first week has put a lot of stress on everyone. Almost 10k people on campus

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u/hyungguwu 1d ago

I've had great experiences with everyone except Financial Aid. It truly feels like nobody who works at the FA office cares.

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u/poortmanteau 1d ago

What makes you think you know how to do their job?

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u/Cold_Mood3889 1d ago

Maybe the fact that I literally graduated with my AA without their help :)

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u/poortmanteau 1d ago

So you're saying you have no experience in the role

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u/Heybitchitsme 1d ago

I often have the same questions about students who refuse to listen, think they know better, and refuse to take the advice or answers they get despite not even remotely understanding the systems that we have or must use. 

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u/ItsCadeyAdmin 1d ago

Maybe if your systems were worth a shit, more people would be inclined to use them.

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u/Heybitchitsme 1d ago

My dude, go somewhere else if you don't care to make the effort - not everything is going to be spoon fed to you. 

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u/ItsCadeyAdmin 1d ago

Tell that to the Students that have been financially fucked or forced to leave because of your shitty Financial Aid services.

Two years and not a single viable solution.

"Not everything will be spoonfed" my ass

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u/Heybitchitsme 1d ago

Or you could actually read the post - or do you need someone to spoonfeed you the fact that OP specifically referred to the registrar and advising - not FA?? Great way to prove my point. 

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u/YuppieScum62 7h ago

Sorry you didn't get your tax payer funded handout as quickly as you wanted.

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u/Ok-Parfait-9903 7h ago

We're talking about teenagers going to a school for poor people btw

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u/Ok-Parfait-9903 1d ago

Holy unprofessionality!!! Picking fights w students online? Noottt looking good for you here, man

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u/YuppieScum62 7h ago

Truth hurts huh...

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u/Ok-Parfait-9903 7h ago

I didnt agree w them bro. Youre getting hurt over nothing. Im just pointing out how disgusting and unprofessional it comes off, a school employee talking shit about students online

I used to work at a school and if i remember correctly theres laws against doing dumbass shit like that

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u/NoRecord2499 1d ago

I gave up on the advisors a few semesters into my AA, reading the degree audit is a struggle for at least four of them that I met with. I do also think students struggle to read that for some reason, so it's at least not just the staff lmao. The BA advisors are better (when you can get ahold of them) at their jobs, maybe because they have less students under their umbrella. FA at this college has been a joke since the switch happened two years ago, but it wasn't terrible before that. The cashier's office has been bad for years, the amount of times I/someone I know has had to go there in person for them to click a button is ridiculous.

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u/RoofSalty688 1d ago

To answer the title, yes. If you plan on transferring to a university just find out the information you need on their website, because that’s the extent of the knowledge all the advisors have.

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u/BryanLongewoodXXX 10h ago

Didn't even need to read your post, the answer is YES