A University Pro Vice Chancellor was kicked out of their office by security staff this morning, Vision can reveal.
The top boss had gone to Heslington Hall to do extra work over the weekend. But security services turned up to tell them they were not allowed to be in the building on Saturdays.
Arguing with security the angry boss reportedly yelled: “Do you know who I am?”
But a security man said: “I don’t know and I don’t care, you have to leave the building.” The Pro Vice Chancellor, was then promptly shown the door.
Now, the keen boss, who earns over £100,000 a year, will not be able to put in the extra hours. Security staff reportedly explained: “no one is allowed into their offices on weekends unless they have a security code to disable the alarms.”
Just hours after the Pro Vice Chancellor was booted from Heslington Hall, Security Services turned on student societies who were doing weekend work. Ex YUSU Presidential candidate Matthew Freckelton had been working in his office in the Vanbrugh CETLE building before security turned up to make him leave.
Annoyed, Freckelton told Security Services: “But I work here! This is my office!”
Security Services were unavailable for a response.
Porters go and then suddenly the rules change. Presumably the PVC will be able to change the rules pretty quickly but it’s ultimately due to a shortfall in portering staff and shows that the campaign for 24/7 portering really needs to return in full force.
Good to see you’ve dropped the J, Jason. It must have been tiresome typing that extra letter. Much more efficient. More time to get your important opinions out there now!
This might be more appropriate.
Just came into the CETLE, set off the alarms again. Security came back up, but they let me stay in the office this time. The guy was far more pleasant than the chap yesterday.
Although he did confirm that if you don’t have an alarm code, then your not allowed in buildings when they are locked, regardless of who you are.
it’s comforting to know that some one working for the university can differentiate between you’re and your…
ARE YOU HAPPY NOW
Why is this an issue. You break the rules and you get punished. No code.. no entry is what the Uni has said for years regarding going into alarmed areas on nights and weekends.
No matter who you are.
This is just another pathetic attempt to bring back the whole bollocks of needing 24hr portering.
I am pleased to see this, because it means that Security Services are doing their job. If the Pro VC needs to work over the weekend, then they can probably justifiability receive an access code – problem solved. I would rather that campus security was strict than lax.
From Matthew Freckelton’s comment above, it just sounds like the attitude of one member of Security needs reviewed rather than the system.
Nice to see the anti-portering security guy back on here
yet again… But you’ve used “Dave” before. You need to
change the names more often, or it makes it easier for you
to be spotted. Assuming you’re bright enough to think of
another name, of course. If not, then maybe you could just
give up on the messageboards and instead try … oooh, I
don’t know … maybe spending that time doing your job?
People are not meant to be alone in workplaces, especially outside normal
hours, for a range of safety reasons. The member of security was right
to enforce the regulations, and if he or she had waived the rule just
because of the person’s rank within the management then that would have
been disgraceful. Those rules don’t exist just for the sake of it, and
security don’t enforce them just to be awkward.
I don’t agree at all that this incident is evidence of the need for
portering restoration. The two issues don’t seem to be related. The
incident isn’t anything other than what it is: an instance of security
doing a good job. However, a lot of other things DO show that we need
to get portering back urgently. The reduction of crime deterrence and
detection, leading to a gigantic rise in crime (largely but not entirely
from bicycle thefts) since the cutbacks. The lack of a place to go if
you’re followed at night, making it a statistical near-certainty that
at some point over the coming years there’ll be a very serious incident.
Damage to disability welfare, and general service provision. The fire
incidents in Derwent blocks. Problems for societies. Damage to college
ambience. Fewer staff available for conferences. All kinds of things,
some big some small, point to the need for extra porters to replace the
ones who have been scrounged from the main campus and sent to Hes East.
And the fact that so much is being squandered on inflated salaries and
gross expenses claims at the top end of the managerial pyramid just goes
to show that the money is there, if they WANT to find it, for at least
two or three new porters.
Jason seems to be wrong about the link between the above situation and
the portering issue. But do we need porters back? Absolutely.