Employee of the Year

This week students got an email telling us Kate Ambrose was selected as the student employee of the year and i can't rightfully complain about SGA's award giving without looking at this one, too. Here's the justification for giving Kate the award:

-Kate has served in [the Office of Student Life] for three years
-and has also served for three years on the Residence Life staff, most recently as Assistant Resident Director at Gillette Hall.
-she maintains a challenging course load
-while giving of her time to various functions and organizations
-and she volunteers at a local church and at the King Center in Buffalo
-She is extremely loyal
-highly creative
-and unfailingly reliable

Keep in mind this award is for being the best employee, so lets see... the first point is irrelevant, and she has also irrelevant, most recently as irrelvant. She maintains irrelvancy while giving her time to irrelevant functions and organizations. And she volunteers (also irrelevant). She is loyal (fantastic, but doubtfully in her job description), creative and reliable. That leaves us with two actual adjectives: reliable and creative. If you do your job, like you should, that would make you reliable, meaning she got the award because she is creative.

Thats fantastic, good for Kate. She works at the only job on campus that asks for creativity. Maybe Pioneer is looking for a creative person to mop in pretty little circles after meals or Janitorial is looking for someone to vacuum in a highly artistic manner.

I realize that being the best at my proctoring job doesn't mean much when one girl counts the quarters and comes up with 5.29 only to have the girl right after her get one more quarter and end up with a total of 5.34. However, being only one of two people (the other being my wife) that does their job in this whole department seems more deserving in someone that does their job creatively, not that they actually had examples of her creativity proving that it wasn't just another word they were grasping for in looking for justification in giving her the award. This isn't to say that Kate doesn't deserve an award, but the least they can do is figure out why.