Meetings Galore!

Hope you like meetings cause when you are a CA, you have to go to a lot of them.

I've been through my share of meetings for classes and clubs but I've never been to so many meetings as I've been when I became a CA. Twice a month, I have my one-on-one meetings with my direct supervisor. I tend to keep my meetings quick with him. Since I'm a returner, I got the job under control and I keep a good track of my floor.

Once a week, we have staff meetings. Staff meetings can either be fun or very boring. Most of my staff meetings are very boring. We basically attend another class once a week for two hours. We have our Senior CA time which is not necessary, in my opinion. We are given information about upcoming events, workshops and other activities for us and our residents. With our staff, we usually have a plea session about someone working open hours at the desk because we are understaffed and we've been overworked since August. Not many people can work hours or want to. Our ProStaff presents the meeting to us but we get tired of hearing them talk. And it doesn't help that we can be a very talkative staff so that takes away time that could have been used to go through the material faster.

We also have our committee meetings that we have to attend to. Each staff member is assigned to a committee whether be it leadership, staff development, facilities, etc... We have to attend those meetings and report back to our ProStaff during staff meeting. We haven't done too much in the committees but I feel that we have done enough.

In addition, we have to attend programs and meetings held by Hall Council, RHA or CCA. Hall council meetings are short, 15-30 minutes mostly and they get right to the point. They also have free food so a good chunk of the CAs do like to attend those meetings. RHA or Residence Hall Association meetings, from what I've heard, can last forever. It's basically the policy side of reslife. There are constitution updates, appointments, candidates announcing their runs for an office or a number of other things. I've either have class at that time or I have club meetings so I've never been to a RHA meeting. CCA or Council of Community Assistants present CA matters and other topics for discussion. it's a fairly short meeting, 30-45 minutes and there is a lot of discussion between everyone in the room.