Susan Saga Continued Or Paging Mr. Creedy
Well, my supervisor spoke with Susan about the display and the conversation dragged on for an hour and a half. We use two tables for displays and Susan demanded that she be given one of the two for her *own* display. The fact that book displays have absolutely nothing to do with her job at the library doesn't seem to count for much. Then she argued that she had every right to put her books on the table because I hadn't correctly changed the codes for my books. First, I did change the codes. Second, why did she look at them in the first place? Third, it doesn't change the fact that she placed books on the table when she doesn't have the authority to do so - twice. Now, she was lying on top of it all.
I checked the codes - just out of curiosity - and they *were* all wrong. They were right when I placed them on there. Then she claimed that I was deliberately hiding her books so she couldn't find them again. In all honesty, I placed some of them on the carts to be reshelved and the others languished on my desk while I was out several days with a cold.
To add to general weirdness, Susan suddenly confessed to placing blocks of books, videos, music CD's etc. in random open spaces on the shelves. They were shelved in the correct general area. But when you have thousands of books or even hundreds of videos it can be nigh on impossible to find a particular item when a patron wants it when it's miss-shelved. This problem went on for months. We almost fired two people over the issue, thinking that they were the cause of the problem. Miss-shelving is the worst kind of sabotage you can have in a library where organization is everything.
Then finally when my supervisor told her to stop doing all these things - Susan started yelling, "Why are you attacking me? Why are you attacking me?" Now, Susan won't talk to my supervisor at all. I just hope she decides not to talk to me either.
Susan really is the Bush administration in miniature. She commits criminal acts (for a library setting,) lies about her actions, accuses the other person of lying, and when she's questioned about her actions, she responds with a question that's designed to bring the whole discussion to a stand still. Why are you attacking me? Why do you hate America?
Enough said. It's all very scary, but very predictable none-the-less and more the pity for that.