VICKI LOGGINS
Administrative Secretary
Grounds Department
Physical Plant
JOB DESCRIPTION:
“I’m primarily responsible for personnel
and procurement reporting, including record keeping
for petty cash and P-card purchases.
“I also maintain employment records for
the 87 employees of the grounds department, and
I keep records on all work orders that come through
the five grounds shops. I also have to answer
about 15 phone lines during the day.”
TIME IN CURRENT POSITION:
29 years and 8 months.
TYPICAL DAY:
“Right when I get to the office, I take
any messages that come into the shop and forward
them to the appropriate foreman, and then I issue
petty cash checks for any purchases that we need.
I make a mail run over to the Chicopee Complex,
where I also drop off labor summaries, leave forms
and personnel information.
“Back here at my office I catch up on my
paperwork—record keeping, sorting the mail—I
even coordinate with the vending company for refunds
from the machines in the break room. Quite often
I have to contact one of the foremen to get them
to respond to an emergency—like a tree may
fall and block a road or damage a vehicle, or
if a stop sign is down. Sometimes things get really
hectic around here.”
MOST REWARDING PART
OF MY JOB: “When we find lost items
on campus and locate the owner. It may seem like
a small thing, but it makes the owner’s
day—and mine, too.
“Also, the guys I work with here are like
a second family to me.”
MOST CHALLENGING PART
OF MY JOB: “Anytime during inclement
weather. The staff of the grounds department is
required to come in, even if the university is
closed. They can come in as early as 6 a.m. or
even 4 a.m., and keeping track of their hours
can be difficult.”
PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCES:
“None. This is the only job I’ve ever
had. I came to work at UGA straight out of high
school.”
IF I WEREN’T DOING THIS JOB, I WOULD MOST
LIKE TO: “Write jingles or slogans
for D.O.T. or M.A.D.D. to use for advertisements.
I have some jingles I’ve written, but haven’t
done anything with them yet.”
OFF-THE-JOB INTERESTS:
“I like to read, and I write poetry. One
of my poems was published in the American
Poetry Anthology, and another was published
in the Athens Observer.
“I like to go to Cherokee, N.C., and Biloxi,
Miss., to gamble. I play the slot machines, and
I won about $1,200 once.”
BOOKS I WOULD RECOMMEND
TO OTHERS: “The
Chicken Soup for the Soul series, The
Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, and Ann Rule’s
books about true crime stories.”
MY FAVORITE MUSIC:
“I like Motown music, and local bands like
the Jesters, the Common People Band and Sounds
of Motown.
“I used to go to a lot of concerts in Atlanta—anything
from country to rock. Fleetwood Mac and Genesis
were probably the best concerts I went to.”
THE PERSON I MOST
ADMIRE: “My brother, Donald Doster.
“My parents divorced when I was at a young
age, and he really took care of my mother, my
sister and me. He made a lot of sacrifices to
provide for us. He’s 15 years older than
I am, so he was like a father figure to us.
“Even though she’s deceased, I also
look up to my mother, Thelma Doster. I know it
was a struggle, but she was a good mom, and a
real Southern belle.”
THE ISSUE THAT CONCERNS ME MOST ABOUT TODAY’S
WORLD: “That there’s so much
out there that children growing up today are exposed
to. It wasn’t like this when I was growing
up. Life was good.”
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