Yes, It's Been That Kind of a Week....

Jul 24, 2008 23:45

This Monday, we had a booked performer not show up for a children's program, due to some sort of scheduling mix-up. I tell you, it is not fun to deal with angry parents, including some who accosted me because I called them late last week (as instructed by my boss) to remind them about the program (we were taking registration). Urrgghhh.

Today, we had an incident where our adult services librarian, a totally precise person whom I have never known to make a mistake, ever, mis-represented the date of her book discussion in her flyer & advertising, saying it was tonight when it was supposed to be a week from now. So then I had to deal with the (mostly) elderly ladies who showed up for the book discussion this week verbally abusing me for something I basically had nothing to do with (other than not catching her extremely rare mistake). One of them even asked me, "Well, what are you going to give me for coming all the way out here?" Unfortunately, I work in a place that operates on giving things out for free, what can I possibly give out? I did end up successfully encouraging a lot of them to fill out forms to earn a tote bag for our adult summer reading program, but after the second time this week where I found myself with no other position than to take verbal reprimands for something that was not even really my fault, I'm feeling kind of weary.

It really has been that kind of a week...I'm sort of expecting an anvil to fall out of the sky and onto my head as I drive to work tomorrow...
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