Minor CraziesstufsockerDecember 3 2004, 17:07:51 UTC
(I call her)Elvira: She's obsessed with one of the older male employees. If given the opportunity she will ask a salesperson for help in finding literally dozens of books. An hour or two later, the books are all found scattered randomly throughout the store
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Sure, crazies are good in any season. It just makes me feel better to know that they're not all here. Or maybe it makes me fear for the future. I haven't quite decided yet.
Mrs. C: We use her real name, when we don't call her "hideous bitch". She comes in every day, with her terrible yapping dog, and sprawls out over the stairs, then acts offended and put out whenever a staff member has to go up or down them. Her level of ire is directly proportionate to the size of the box or stack of books is that the staff member is holding. I have never seen her buy anything, but she will occasionally put remaindered kids books on hold, then complain mightily about the price of them. Her favourite thing is to come in whenever we have events and ask "will there be.... refreshments served?" If the answer is no, she becomes irate. If the answer is yes, she sticks around and gets drunk, then asks Personal Questions to whomever the author is. Then she tries to hug them. It is awful. She has managed to offend or upset everyone on staff at least once. The most memorable time was when she insisted that Brussels was in France, and called the oldest and most beloved lady on staff Stupid because she thought
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Good gravy! With regards to that kid...if it happens again, and she leaves him there alone, you're within your rights to call the cops and report him as abandoned and/or missing and/or lost, since you have no clue where his mother is. Then hand him over to the police. That'll teach her! Do this when you see her leave the store for sure! Otherwise (do you have a paging system?) treat him as lost, ask him his name, if he knows his mother's name, etc. and page her over and over and over. That IS a bad mother. How horrible, especially if he is autistic or has Asperger's (which I'm surprised at how many people have...I never knew it was so prevalent!)
Well, I am hesitant to do that because I like the kid. I also don't think his mother is purposely being negligent, just thoughtless. It must be really difficult get any errands done for her, and I know she homeschools him, so to HER it probably seems ideal to have him be in what she considers a "safe place" where he is occupied for twenty minutes so she can have a little down time. I don't applaud her for that, but I can understand it.
After that last incident, I spoke to both my manager and the mother herself (in as dipolomatic a way as possible), and she hasn't left the store again since (at least not that I have seen). I tried to take a kind but firm stand with her; if I ever see her do it again, it is up to the manager what to do.
Being a library worker, we have a different sort of "regulars", but they do share some of the same attributes.
The homeless Being a public building, we have about 3 or 4 homeless men who come in every day, especally in the winter, because it's a warm place for them to spend the day where they won't be yelled at. We tolerate them, and they always act very polite and quiet. There are two men, one is an older African-American, one is an older caucasian, and they CONSTANTLY talk about baseball. Loudly. Being that it's a library, this often irritates me (we like it quiet...crazy, I know), but we usually just ask them to quiet down, and they're ok. Then there's the one smelly man, as I call him, who I actually really like. He seems a little unbalanced, but all he ever does is sit in his chair and read. He never talks to anyone, and unlike all the other homeless men, he is there every day. I like him...but he smells awful.
Odd smiley no-shoes man I actually haven't seen this guy in a while...but for a few weeks, he would come in almost
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After that last incident, I spoke to both my manager and the mother herself (in as dipolomatic a way as possible), and she hasn't left the store again since (at least not that I have seen). I tried to take a kind but firm stand with her; if I ever see her do it again, it is up to the manager what to do.
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The homeless Being a public building, we have about 3 or 4 homeless men who come in every day, especally in the winter, because it's a warm place for them to spend the day where they won't be yelled at. We tolerate them, and they always act very polite and quiet. There are two men, one is an older African-American, one is an older caucasian, and they CONSTANTLY talk about baseball. Loudly. Being that it's a library, this often irritates me (we like it quiet...crazy, I know), but we usually just ask them to quiet down, and they're ok. Then there's the one smelly man, as I call him, who I actually really like. He seems a little unbalanced, but all he ever does is sit in his chair and read. He never talks to anyone, and unlike all the other homeless men, he is there every day. I like him...but he smells awful.
Odd smiley no-shoes man I actually haven't seen this guy in a while...but for a few weeks, he would come in almost ( ... )
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Rugs are Oriental, people are Asian.
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