Tales from the Library Part 3!
Alright, Saturday at the library.
Slightly busy and we're short-handed so me and the other page are running around shelving Children and Adult, we normally just have to do adult. But since were in a park there is way too much stuff going on OUTSIDE the library, First there is an easter egg hunt thing going on for the kiddies so a big part of the park and stuff is blocked off, leaving only our little parking place for the entire park. Also its apparantly Cambodian New Year, and there is a massive celebration going on in some other part of the park, but they are selling tickets IN the parking lot. Great.
Meaning no parking for anyone.
This leads me to the first part of the suckage.
Reading signs,
Now this is a library, and we like to help people. Or we are supposed to.
So we have Signs all over the place.
"The Line Starts here"
"Return stuff here"
"Children's Fiction"
ect.
People Can't read signs. I swear they drop like 50 IQ points when the come into the library or something.
We have a Slot thingy that you can put your books in, (this is actually INSIDE the library, by the way) and they drop though to the back room and we check them and and shit. EVERY DAY Multiple people stick their head in the slot and say "Can I return (Insert Item) here?"
Yes. Thats what its for.
Dur.
Moving on.
We also had a sign up that said "We are NOT selling tickets to the Cambodian Festival!" Because we have nothing to do with it!
But did people still come in and ask? Hell yes.
Part 2:
So the morning goes by, all normal, slightly stressful, but whatever. So I go to lunch! Yay! I come back from lunch, and two cars pull out of our loading dock..
(Yes we have a loading dock, we are part of a library system so we move books back and forth)
and to make things worse the delivery truck is right there waiting for them to move.
My initial reaction is Aww crap, and I run up to help out with whatever's going on.
Turns out some ladies donated 25 (25!!) of those paper boxes full of books.
Not even good books, crappy grungy, yellowed warped and old. so as I'm hauling them into the library, me and the other page exchange looks and say "ya know we're gonna have to haul them ALL back out again" Because we throw out 95% of all our book donations. Ok we have a fiber recycling thing, but still.
WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU DONATE BOOKS THAT YOU DON'T WANT BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO FUCKED UP, TO THE LIBRARY, WHAT THE HELL ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO? Morons.
The worst is when they want us to take them out of their shitty carboard boxes so they can have them back. Assholes. One of the clerks was also saying that one time an old clerk (as in doesn't work there any more, wonder why...) opened a donation box and a mouse jumped out at him.
Holy fuck. What would posses people to donate books like that?
And finally:
The other guy was telling me that he went out to do our bookdrop before we are open, so our neon "open" sign is off and our other sign says closed, but we have to leave the door open a crack so we don't get locked out when we walk down to the street to unload the bookdrop that people don't have to get out of their cars to use. And someone walked all they way up to the front, right next to the closed sign and said "Are you guys closed or something?"
No, we just like to trick people and pretend like we are closed but were actually open, You win! You beat us! You get to get your books for free! oh wait, WE'RE A FUCKING LIBRARY!
Here's your sign....
Slightly busy and we're short-handed so me and the other page are running around shelving Children and Adult, we normally just have to do adult. But since were in a park there is way too much stuff going on OUTSIDE the library, First there is an easter egg hunt thing going on for the kiddies so a big part of the park and stuff is blocked off, leaving only our little parking place for the entire park. Also its apparantly Cambodian New Year, and there is a massive celebration going on in some other part of the park, but they are selling tickets IN the parking lot. Great.
Meaning no parking for anyone.
This leads me to the first part of the suckage.
Reading signs,
Now this is a library, and we like to help people. Or we are supposed to.
So we have Signs all over the place.
"The Line Starts here"
"Return stuff here"
"Children's Fiction"
ect.
People Can't read signs. I swear they drop like 50 IQ points when the come into the library or something.
We have a Slot thingy that you can put your books in, (this is actually INSIDE the library, by the way) and they drop though to the back room and we check them and and shit. EVERY DAY Multiple people stick their head in the slot and say "Can I return (Insert Item) here?"
Yes. Thats what its for.
Dur.
Moving on.
We also had a sign up that said "We are NOT selling tickets to the Cambodian Festival!" Because we have nothing to do with it!
But did people still come in and ask? Hell yes.
Part 2:
So the morning goes by, all normal, slightly stressful, but whatever. So I go to lunch! Yay! I come back from lunch, and two cars pull out of our loading dock..
(Yes we have a loading dock, we are part of a library system so we move books back and forth)
and to make things worse the delivery truck is right there waiting for them to move.
My initial reaction is Aww crap, and I run up to help out with whatever's going on.
Turns out some ladies donated 25 (25!!) of those paper boxes full of books.
Not even good books, crappy grungy, yellowed warped and old. so as I'm hauling them into the library, me and the other page exchange looks and say "ya know we're gonna have to haul them ALL back out again" Because we throw out 95% of all our book donations. Ok we have a fiber recycling thing, but still.
WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU DONATE BOOKS THAT YOU DON'T WANT BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO FUCKED UP, TO THE LIBRARY, WHAT THE HELL ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO? Morons.
The worst is when they want us to take them out of their shitty carboard boxes so they can have them back. Assholes. One of the clerks was also saying that one time an old clerk (as in doesn't work there any more, wonder why...) opened a donation box and a mouse jumped out at him.
Holy fuck. What would posses people to donate books like that?
And finally:
The other guy was telling me that he went out to do our bookdrop before we are open, so our neon "open" sign is off and our other sign says closed, but we have to leave the door open a crack so we don't get locked out when we walk down to the street to unload the bookdrop that people don't have to get out of their cars to use. And someone walked all they way up to the front, right next to the closed sign and said "Are you guys closed or something?"
No, we just like to trick people and pretend like we are closed but were actually open, You win! You beat us! You get to get your books for free! oh wait, WE'RE A FUCKING LIBRARY!
Here's your sign....