Comments | redfirecracker: I REMAIN SURROUNDED BY IDIOTS. SEND HELP.

redfirecracker

I REMAIN SURROUNDED BY IDIOTS. SEND HELP.

Jan 23, 2008 13:26

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lucifrix January 24 2008, 15:07:52 UTC

The only response to something like this that you will get away with is to fill the request, but point out to the patron, with the utmost politeness, what you've explained here. Hopefully, it'll make him feel stupid. If you could put a day or two of delay on it--because putting something in the notes field DOES delay fulfillment, after all--that'd be pretty awesome too. Could well get you fired, but it'd be awesome. :(

redfirecracker January 24 2008, 15:14:58 UTC

Oh, I ended up just canceling the request altogether. Reason: English-only specified, article written in *Finnish*. For added fun, THE CITATION SPECIFIED FINNISH LANGUAGE. *sigh* I didn't trust myself to be polite enough to hide the sarcasm that I'm sure would have bled through.

It's just ridiculous that people expect us to magically pull English translations out of our asses or something. Grrrrrr.