Tales from the bookstore
Well, no Christmas music yet. If that could just hold off for another few weeks, that'd be awesome.
I finally had occasion to be annoyed by one of my co-workers last night, though. This guy seems to make everyone gnash their teeth in irritation every time his name comes up in conversation, but he'd always seemed perfectly fine (if a little gung-ho about our staff meetings) to me. People are especially annoyed now that he's just been promoted to the assistant manager type position that's been open for a little while. But anyway. I had a lady ask me where something was. Turns out it was up in Fiction (M's section - he seems to be still working the floor - probably until the current schedule runs out or something), and she wanted me to show her, since she couldn't find it when she looked (Why she decided to come downstairs and bother me about it is another matter. If you're already in the Fiction section looking for a novel, if you can't find it, would it not make sense to find whoever's working that section, rather than go all the way downstairs to a completely unrelated section - and then interrupt someone who's helping someone else, I might add). So I checked exactly where it was supposed to be, and took her upstairs. It wasn't where it was supposed to be. So I asked M if he had any idea where it might be. He barely looks at me, shrugs and says he doesn't know, and goes back to what he was doing. I know that's not a huge annoyance, but generally if another CER brings somebody into my section and they can't find something, I'll usually make some effort to try and help them find it, even if I don't actually know exactly where it is either. It was more just his "Your problem; go away" tone of voice that bugged me. But anyway. I did eventually find the book, if anybody was feeling the suspense.
And I have a question. If I ask someone if I can help them find anything, and they tell me they're just looking for a book (to which I pretty much invariably have to bite my tongue from answering, "No fucking shit, you moron!"), is it legit for me to interpret this as meaning that no, they do not wish any help, and I can mosey off and leave them to it? Cuz sometimes when I do this and start in on a little shelving, they give me weird looks, like I'm supposed to be standing over their shoulders watching them blunder their way through our (I think) fairly straightforward system.
In other news, we seem to have new upstairs neighbours, who I'm hoping are still just settling in. I hope this because if stomping around apparently in their shoes, and shoving furniture across the floor starting at around 8 on a Saturday morning are part of their normal habits, it's going to get old very fast.
I finally had occasion to be annoyed by one of my co-workers last night, though. This guy seems to make everyone gnash their teeth in irritation every time his name comes up in conversation, but he'd always seemed perfectly fine (if a little gung-ho about our staff meetings) to me. People are especially annoyed now that he's just been promoted to the assistant manager type position that's been open for a little while. But anyway. I had a lady ask me where something was. Turns out it was up in Fiction (M's section - he seems to be still working the floor - probably until the current schedule runs out or something), and she wanted me to show her, since she couldn't find it when she looked (Why she decided to come downstairs and bother me about it is another matter. If you're already in the Fiction section looking for a novel, if you can't find it, would it not make sense to find whoever's working that section, rather than go all the way downstairs to a completely unrelated section - and then interrupt someone who's helping someone else, I might add). So I checked exactly where it was supposed to be, and took her upstairs. It wasn't where it was supposed to be. So I asked M if he had any idea where it might be. He barely looks at me, shrugs and says he doesn't know, and goes back to what he was doing. I know that's not a huge annoyance, but generally if another CER brings somebody into my section and they can't find something, I'll usually make some effort to try and help them find it, even if I don't actually know exactly where it is either. It was more just his "Your problem; go away" tone of voice that bugged me. But anyway. I did eventually find the book, if anybody was feeling the suspense.
And I have a question. If I ask someone if I can help them find anything, and they tell me they're just looking for a book (to which I pretty much invariably have to bite my tongue from answering, "No fucking shit, you moron!"), is it legit for me to interpret this as meaning that no, they do not wish any help, and I can mosey off and leave them to it? Cuz sometimes when I do this and start in on a little shelving, they give me weird looks, like I'm supposed to be standing over their shoulders watching them blunder their way through our (I think) fairly straightforward system.
In other news, we seem to have new upstairs neighbours, who I'm hoping are still just settling in. I hope this because if stomping around apparently in their shoes, and shoving furniture across the floor starting at around 8 on a Saturday morning are part of their normal habits, it's going to get old very fast.