The Long Dark Indian Summer of the Soul
Sep. 1st, 2004 12:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mayhapMy little brother has gone back to school. Everyone in Missouri has gone back to school. The school-going contingent of my flist? Has pretty much gone back to school. Whereas I've still got a couple more weeks of summer.
No, I'm not gloating. (Well, only a little.) It's a bit odd to be the only one still on summer time, doing summer things, all by myself. Get to catch up a bit more on my reading, though.
Last night at work my Fluffy-Headed Boss gave me a fun task as she was leaving--taking down all the paper cut-outs from the summer reading program bulletin so that we could put them in a box--thousands of them--and leave them for kids to hunt through for hours on end, trying to find the shapes with their name written on it. Yeah.
About a half an hour later, she called the library to clarify: actually, none of the pages should do any work at all. She gave me another fun task--going through the library pulling tags from someone's test cart to make sure they did a good job, which they did--and told all the other pages to shelfread. Oh, another example of her particular brand of oblivious incompetence--she assigned sections to shelfread to everyone right after I started working. She did not give me any sections, and she kept extending that assignment, from one month to two to all summer, such that I have done basically no shelfreading at all, and thus had to work extra-hard to find things to do when there were no books to shelve (i.e., every shift I've worked since school started ...)
Now, as of today--when I'm not even working there another full two weeks--she gave me a whole three sections to do, one of adult fiction (fun, easy to do) and two of juvenile non-fiction (not at all fun, hellishly slow to do, ain't no way those suckers are getting done). Just, honestly. She's not very good with logistics; I don't know how our library keeps going, but somehow it does.
My shirt has wings on it!
No, I'm not gloating. (Well, only a little.) It's a bit odd to be the only one still on summer time, doing summer things, all by myself. Get to catch up a bit more on my reading, though.
Last night at work my Fluffy-Headed Boss gave me a fun task as she was leaving--taking down all the paper cut-outs from the summer reading program bulletin so that we could put them in a box--thousands of them--and leave them for kids to hunt through for hours on end, trying to find the shapes with their name written on it. Yeah.
About a half an hour later, she called the library to clarify: actually, none of the pages should do any work at all. She gave me another fun task--going through the library pulling tags from someone's test cart to make sure they did a good job, which they did--and told all the other pages to shelfread. Oh, another example of her particular brand of oblivious incompetence--she assigned sections to shelfread to everyone right after I started working. She did not give me any sections, and she kept extending that assignment, from one month to two to all summer, such that I have done basically no shelfreading at all, and thus had to work extra-hard to find things to do when there were no books to shelve (i.e., every shift I've worked since school started ...)
Now, as of today--when I'm not even working there another full two weeks--she gave me a whole three sections to do, one of adult fiction (fun, easy to do) and two of juvenile non-fiction (not at all fun, hellishly slow to do, ain't no way those suckers are getting done). Just, honestly. She's not very good with logistics; I don't know how our library keeps going, but somehow it does.
My shirt has wings on it!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2004-09-01 11:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-01 01:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-01 06:01 pm (UTC)However, today I decided that working in a library (public or university) might not be such a bad deal after all.
no subject
Date: 2004-09-01 06:30 pm (UTC)I mean, with shelfreading, if there's nothing else to do, you can go sit down in front of some shelves for a while. And look at the dustjackets of the books, especially if they're interesting books. (Back before we had assigned sections, I was all about shelfreading the YA books.) At the very least, it's a change of pace from running around with books.
With no shelfreading to do, I ended up ... wandering around uncomfortably and attempting to manufacture tasks to do, or at the very least, keep the Fluffy-Headed Boss from noticing that I wasn't working if she was around. This made things more difficult for me.
no subject
Date: 2004-09-02 06:13 am (UTC)I'd be like "wow, that girl shows initiative. I'll give her a raise to $5.17 an hour! Yeah!"
no subject
Date: 2004-09-02 10:38 am (UTC)I have no idea what Janet would have done if I randomly put down that I shelfread X section to which I was not assigned for an hour and a half. I suppose I could have found out by experiment, but I did not. I mean, that was before she made up the September schedule. Now that she's done that, I suppose I can do whatever I want until my last day. ;)
no subject
Date: 2004-09-02 01:02 pm (UTC)I thought you'd made $7.00\hr. Evidently you were exaggerating your wage, or something.
I was looking at UGA online, and I see some part time listings, however not at the library.
Not that it matters, as I lack a car anyway.
no subject
Date: 2004-09-02 01:07 pm (UTC)We note down what we do during our shift on little pieces of paper, which as far as I can tell, the Fluffy-Headed Boss glances at and then pitches, or something. But still.
random journal
Date: 2004-09-01 03:45 pm (UTC)I just pressed the 'random journal' button by accident and your journal was the one I got to and I was pleasantly surprised, because you seem to be a rather interesting person, plus I already love you, because you have an avatar with a quote from 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray' on it. ^_^
I will keep an eye on you [sorry, didn't want to make it sound like I'm a stalker or something], so I better go and add you to my friendlist now.
Take care,
And sorry for just commenting on an entry of yours.
Cocún.
Re: random journal
Date: 2004-09-01 06:05 pm (UTC)Which is rather annoying, actually.
ooooh, somebody's jealous
Date: 2004-09-01 06:27 pm (UTC)My journal brings all the random people to the yard, and they're like, it's better than yours. Damn right, it's better than yours ...
Re: ooooh, somebody's jealous
Date: 2004-09-02 06:11 am (UTC)Re: ooooh, somebody's jealous
Date: 2004-09-02 01:18 pm (UTC)Re: ooooh, somebody's jealous
Date: 2004-09-04 07:08 am (UTC)what? it's just an icon of sisterly love
Date: 2004-09-06 11:36 pm (UTC)Re: random journal
Date: 2004-09-01 06:33 pm (UTC)Re: random journal
Date: 2004-09-02 06:21 am (UTC)Re: random journal
Date: 2004-09-01 06:37 pm (UTC)Re: random journal
Date: 2004-09-02 06:24 am (UTC)Re: random journal
Date: 2004-09-02 09:30 am (UTC)Re: random journal
Date: 2004-09-01 06:34 pm (UTC)