Giving Drive-Up, Drop Off A Whole New Meaning

Well the local homeless population seem to have confused the idea of a library drive-up window with that of a port-a-loo.  Our maintenance staff keeps having to clean up poo and vomit from around the drive-up window.  Crazy thing is... the window faces a major intersection on a highly traveled street.  Guess they have no fear of dropping trou (amongst other things) in public view.

Fudgin' It

Libraries are all about keeping statistics. I wonder if any library administrator every heard this quote from Disraeli?

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Keep That Sausage in Your Pants

They're serving some kind of stinky sausage in the cafe today and someone thought it wise to bring it to the staff lounge to reheat it.  Now my workstation is overrun with the stench of roasted piggy parts.  Yuck!!!!

March On! Occupy Wall Street

There is nothing more embarrassing than having your debit card denied for a mere $5.22 charge (on pay day no less).  Stupid bank!  Now I'm going to have to waste my time calling the stupid customer service department to see what the heck is going on with my account.

Slipped Right Through My Fingers... Darn It!

I almost got another award today (that would have been the third in two weeks) but the patron didn't know how to nominate me so I had to settle for a nice email in my employee file.  Too bad.  The award system we have here equates to cold, hard cash.  It would have been nice to add a few points to my coiffer.

Oh well... only more motivation to keep providing good customer service.

You never would have heard me utter those words at my last job where everyone comes to work every day and just try to keep their heads down so Queen Bee doesn't come along and chop it off.

Death Grip

Why is it that the people in an organization that are in the most need of retirement refuse to go away?  They constantly hinder any progress being made and you inevitably have to work around them instead of 'with' them. 

I guess some people are just determined to drop dead at their desk instead of admitting that they really have no life to go home to.

Pathetic and sad...

Like Rats Swimming For Shore

All aboard a sinking ship, that is...

Since I left my last position I have heard several crazy stories of the insane changes (or lack thereof) in my old department.  Guess the Queen Bee found me irreplaceable after all. She seems to be scrambling to disseminate my old duties amongst the entire Reference staff instead of just filling my position.  That's what she gets for dumping so many duties on one individual with reimbursement for the time and the trouble to fill the position. 

Since I left they have lost two part-time staff, a paraprofessional, and another Reference Librarian.  Shouldn't this turnover give her a clue that her ship is quickly sinking? Oh wait. That's what a normal, rational person would think. 

IT Breakdown

I spent half my morning trying to log in to a training webinar. I missed the first 20 minutes of this thing because the stupid Internet decided to slow down at the precise moment that I was trying to log in to this webcast.  Geez! 

Sometimes I just hate technology.