Bitch! That would be the woman that I reached when I called to talk about my student loan and make a little sense out of their oh-so complicated form.
You can call me stupid, but I was seriously confused and thought it was necessary to call to make things clearer. After quickly explaining why I was calling the phone went silent for 2.5 minutes. I could hear her and decided to say hello and see if she was still there on the other end. She said “yup, i’m still here”, and the silence continued for about another minute.
I asked her a question and her response was “I can’t help you with that. You have to submit form C0023GHI%&$#&@*12200dfkji… right… ok, so where would I find this form? “on our webiste”, she replied. Then never said bye and hung up as I was saying goodbye! Are they all like this?
I guess that’s the real world… —J-Dubs
This article appears in Jul 8-14, 2010.
I always found the CSL people pretty helpful, but the current provincial student loan people are a bunch of freaking morons, or so I’ve heard.
if you get bitchy with them o.p., they will give it right back. you think they enjoy listening to the bullshit day in, day out, no they don’t. i wouldn’t either.
There’s one particular NSSL person who’s kind of a jerk, but the rest are generally ok. If you’re in HRM, OP, you’re just better off to go in in person. that’s what I started doing when I moved back to Hfx, and it’s been MUCH less of a headache. And trust me, I’ve had some student loan experiences that would make you curl up into a fetal position in a corner. *sigh*
It all works out in the end though.
It’s not that complicated to get approved for student loans. Just wait until you have to pay them back. That same lady will be calling you at all time of day and night to nag this living shit out of you until you implode with anger, then she’ll hang up on you. Her job is done.
yes young one ,this is the real world,or did your mommy and daddy fail to teach you about REALITY…i feel so scared for the next generation,so naive and so gullible
sounds about par for the course… that’s why you ALWAYS get their name and write down as feverishly as you can everything that transpires.
and by everything, I mean everything…
if you hear them fart in the background, it had better be at least right there in the margin as a note of interest during the call.
*heard ____ fart, colleagues sniggered*
sebastian that’s because these kids feel they’re entitled to get the money. They also feel like they shouldn’t have to pay it back. I wonder what part of LOAN don’t these kids understand?
Not all of us “kids” with student loans feel entitled to the money, BT and not all of us “kids” with loans feel we don’t have to pay it back. My biggest concern is how I actually am going to pay mind back within a reasonable time frame, not the fact that I actually *gasp* have to pay back a bunch of money I borrowed. Do I wish it would magically disappear? sure. But that doesn’t mean I feel entitled to anything.
It kills me how people make blanket statements on the entire group of university students/those with student loans that quite frankly aren’t true. The problem isn’t with people wanting a free ride, the problem is with being actually able to pay the loans back. No one really wants to default on any sort of debt. And trust me, no one wants to take out a student loan in the first place. Some of us take out the loans because without them, we wouldn’t be able to actually go to university. Sure there’s the school of thought that maybe too many people have access to post secondary education these days, but it would be a shame to block some highly intelligent people out of getting an education to develop said mind. I know I wouldn’t’ve been able to afford to go to university without loans (which would’ve been a complete waste), and I’ve seen many people go to university who didn’t have to get loans who were basically just taking up space.
yep…. the ones with parents paying the way… ug.
not hard to spot them at all.
I’m fully expecting it to take a decade to pay mine down, that’s for sure.
The crazy thing was that every time I called to get something set up (6 months worth of calling), I could never get an account # out of them to set up with the bank for payments. How can I pay you if you don’t give me an account # ????
after the inevitable defaulting, got a call and the second sentence from them was the account # I’d been craving.
bastards. now they take my income tax return every bloody year.