White Glove

So white glove at Liberty comes at the end of every semester. It requires deep cleaning, i.e. moving desks, dressers, beds, dusting base boards, shelves etc. It seems like a daunting task but we dedicate an entire hall meeting to setting expectations and explaining requirements. On top of this we post instructions on the hall as to what needs to be done before you can check out with us and leave for break. With this said I fail to see why it seems to be so impossible to be ready at your appointed time. You are the one who chooses when your check out time will be and it is you who will be charged for the tasks that are not completed. And yet every semester since becoming an RA we have had to check and re-check and write post-its of what needs to be done in order to complete the check out requirements.

But I have come up with a solution! Next semester at the end of the year I am going to buckle down and not charge their Liberty accounts but the hall fund. For every time I have to return to a girls room and re-check it because it was not completed at the time of their appointment I am going to charge them five dollars which will be given to the hall fund. Since most of our girls claim to be the typical broke college student this should motivate them to do a more accurate job in their cleaning.

If you have any other suggestions on how I may motivate my girls please feel free to send them to me.

Love from Liberty,
Peggy