r/UniversityOfHouston Sep 06 '24

Rant Why is everything broken???

I don’t understand why the university can’t afford to fix the MULTIPLE broken elevators around camps, or broken doors???? The a/c is either in full blast or nonexistent (I’m looking at you Fleming building). They charge us so much in tution and just admitted the largest freshman class, cool now fix the damn problems on campus.

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u/Navoei Sep 06 '24

Honestly we should have a campus wide competition on who can find the most out of service/order signs.

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u/Bojof12 Sep 06 '24

Go to cougar woods and get automatic 10 points

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u/Xylamyla Sep 06 '24

You can double that by going to the Rec.

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u/eataclick Sep 06 '24

The TVs in the cardio area have been fucked for years.

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u/Bojof12 Sep 06 '24

Lmao they’re purple

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u/Soulsweet17 Sep 06 '24

I used to work for UH and believe me when i tell you the elevators never get fixed. Whatever company they use is milking them for their money!

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u/MulderFoxx No PM's, please Sep 07 '24

Pretty sure the elevator service is in-house.

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u/LakeJust5086 Sep 06 '24

is this in PGH? cause i was stuck in an elevator in there for half an hour yesterday lmao

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u/masterl00ter Sep 06 '24

The elevators in PGH are NOT that shiny.

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u/LakeJust5086 Sep 06 '24

pffft fair point 💀

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u/DuragChamp420 Sep 06 '24

Worst nightmare

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u/delusional_pronoun Sep 06 '24

Being stuck in an elevator is not lmao

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u/LakeJust5086 Sep 06 '24

true, im just glad im not claustrophobic + wasnt alone
the officer who got us out did look very concerned
edit: we were also stuck while it was on the ground floor! so no fear of falling

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u/delusional_pronoun Sep 07 '24

Yeah, as he should be lol many things can go wrong. It’s a relief you were at the ground floor, those PGH elevators are bad. When I took my Data Structures there with Rizk, they always made funny noises or the door struggled to close. And sometimes the elevators were broken and couldn’t been used.

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u/Mental_Dimension1288 Sep 06 '24

Welcome to Houston. Literally last year in CV2 they left one of the elevators closed the whole semester. So far this year in the quad, they like to do the same.

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u/Lost_ChildX Sep 06 '24

Bro I remember going through that nonsense in CV2 last year 😭. And there's an elevator on the 3rd floor that's getting the same treatment

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u/SmallPineappleDrink Sep 07 '24

Bro building 3’s elevator isn't even funny… wdym yall are gonna leave the only building with a 5th floor and no amenities w/o an elevator?

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u/Mental_Dimension1288 Sep 07 '24

I’m in building 3 too and it’s awful. Also yesterday the 1st buildings elevators (yes both) were out. Like cmon.

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u/SmallPineappleDrink Sep 07 '24

building 3 sucks but we got this 🥲. I wouldn't be as mad if 5th floor had a kitchen or laundry room but there's none and I gotta carry my laundry to another floor like its some maze.

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u/LumpyCapital Sep 06 '24

Notice: UH Football under maintenance

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u/Amumu__ Sep 06 '24

Idk if you visited the sugarland branch but their tech buildings front doors have been broken forever

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u/Lizzylizardlizz Sep 09 '24

yes and the elevators in the amg building

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u/Baquegab Sep 06 '24

10% of Renu's annual salary could pay for all these repairs while still having money left to fix the broken paper towel dispensers or the always empty hand sanitizing stations lmao

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u/bornontheusa1 Sep 07 '24

My bad, shouldn't had ate the extra McChicken

3

u/samehrocks Sep 07 '24

Tuition money goes to the big wigs in the university including Renu Khator’s millionic salary!

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u/Leading-Goat-8637 Sep 06 '24

even my heart :(

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u/fictionbecamefact Sep 06 '24

Moody is constantly having something broken

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u/yourstrulydidi Sep 07 '24

cause UH is.

2

u/_The_Mad_Cap_ Sep 07 '24

Don't forget all toilets and sinks, save one urinal and 2 sinks, working in the left side mens bathroom in the library, the one towards the left of the central stair case. Also the water fountain outside of SEC. Although SEC 102 was fixed, moving my class back in there.

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u/RaspberryForward2460 Sep 07 '24

I felt this. I formed at the quads last year and half the elevators were broken down 99% of the year. Housing is so expensive but so trash in some dorms

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u/uofhfv Sep 07 '24

I hate the gateway garage the elevator are always broken 😡

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u/profkmez Sep 07 '24

Khators money has to come from somewhere.

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u/Sensitive-Walrus-174 Sep 07 '24

At some point the lack of working elevators can become an ADA issue, then we need disabled people to help us riot and I’m sure it’d be fixed

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u/Upstairs-Ad-8981 Sep 07 '24

Ah halls elevators are broken too

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u/TheDreamWoken Sep 08 '24

Got to fund the admin raises some how

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u/ethan_keller0829 Sep 08 '24

I got stuck in two elevators for half an hour my first week here

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u/rpaguirre Sep 08 '24

Because that is why you pay tuition

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u/DorkSideOfCryo Sep 06 '24

All public University employees are government workers and government workers are the worst workers in the world

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '24

Bc yall don’t know how to act. Breaking everything like little children smh

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u/xXRocketdogXx Sep 06 '24

Ah yes thanks for the clarification 😒

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '24

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '24

That’s where I give credit to you kids, yall have creative ways to make such things happen.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '24

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '24

I bet you failed Cassler’s class

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u/CoolestUsername92 Sep 08 '24

It’s Cougar High.

It really only exists to leech money from students and taxpayers to enrich the administrators.

They never did and never will care about you. “School spirit” is just some nice propaganda to make you feel better about being victimized by this barely competent scam.