LauraJUnderwood
Silly Author Person
We're crawling towards fifty willing to prepay on the list.
Slowly, slowly...
The more the merrier.
I just celebrated my 54th birthday a couple of days ago.
Am going insane this week. The boss went away for a holiday (she really needed the time off), and I got stuck with the Sweet, Kind, Sub From Hades...
She is a nice lady. She is a wonderful person.
But she will drive you absolutely bonkers. She is a sort of Miss Malaprop of Book Shelving. Things NEVER end up where they are supposed to, and for all my efforts to keep her from shelving, she is going to do it as soon as I turn my back. And if I ask her not to do it and to do something else, she tells me she will do the something else as soon as she finishes shelving.
And of course, because she is in her late 70s, there is No Telling Her What To Do...
*sigh*
But I still like her as a person. I just end up totally exhausted after working with her for a week.
Starting Monday, I will be spending my Mondays at a different branch. The powers that be, in order to keep from cutting staff hours and closing branches, chose to cut hours of service. My regularly scheduled branch will be close on Mondays now. I will be working at another branch, one of the ones that is short handed because we have 16 open positions within the branches and a Hiring Freeze that will now go through June 2009, so we cannot fill those positions.
This is because the State has graciously decided to refuse money to urban libraries and give it all to rural libraries, and while I am all for rural libraries, I sorta wish they had divied it up a little more...
Not that I am opposed to working elsewhere. I actually like the place I am being sent, and the people there are friends on one level or another.
It's the inconvenience... Of having to be some place earlier than I usually have to be at my regular place (except for Every Other Saturday, when I have to be at my regular place earlier than usual). Of having to reorient myself to the way another branch does things. We have rules and regulations, and there is supposed to be some consistency, but whereas Manager A wants to sort books in delivery before processing them, Manager B just processes them and doesn't bother with the sorting (and the latter, I might add, is faster).
And I know of at least one manager who makes all his own rules where personnel are concerned, and tells his staff they must NEVER EVER talk to the administrators downtown (he has secrets he is afraid they will tell, like the fact that he and a member of the staff subordinate to him are possibly having an affair...and the fact that he cheats on his time sheets and pads the circulation figures...)
I used to work for him, and he tried Dictatorial Leadership on me, and discovered, I don't take Dictatorsion (yeah, I made that word up). He told me never to call for him at the main library, but to call him at his place, and I asked why I would call his house when he told me he was going to be downtown... He also said that I was "too friendly" to the patrons (gee, aren't we supposed to be friendly). His branch patrons complain that his staff are rude, cold and uncaring, but of course, what they don't know is his staff have been threatened against being friendly. He wants to be the friendly one. He wants people liking him more than his staff.
Apparently, he has issues. Anger management and a lack of self worth being high on the list.
Oh, well.
Just getting stuff off my chest.
Later,
Laura J. Underwood
Slowly, slowly...
The more the merrier.
I just celebrated my 54th birthday a couple of days ago.
Am going insane this week. The boss went away for a holiday (she really needed the time off), and I got stuck with the Sweet, Kind, Sub From Hades...
She is a nice lady. She is a wonderful person.
But she will drive you absolutely bonkers. She is a sort of Miss Malaprop of Book Shelving. Things NEVER end up where they are supposed to, and for all my efforts to keep her from shelving, she is going to do it as soon as I turn my back. And if I ask her not to do it and to do something else, she tells me she will do the something else as soon as she finishes shelving.
And of course, because she is in her late 70s, there is No Telling Her What To Do...
*sigh*
But I still like her as a person. I just end up totally exhausted after working with her for a week.
Starting Monday, I will be spending my Mondays at a different branch. The powers that be, in order to keep from cutting staff hours and closing branches, chose to cut hours of service. My regularly scheduled branch will be close on Mondays now. I will be working at another branch, one of the ones that is short handed because we have 16 open positions within the branches and a Hiring Freeze that will now go through June 2009, so we cannot fill those positions.
This is because the State has graciously decided to refuse money to urban libraries and give it all to rural libraries, and while I am all for rural libraries, I sorta wish they had divied it up a little more...
Not that I am opposed to working elsewhere. I actually like the place I am being sent, and the people there are friends on one level or another.
It's the inconvenience... Of having to be some place earlier than I usually have to be at my regular place (except for Every Other Saturday, when I have to be at my regular place earlier than usual). Of having to reorient myself to the way another branch does things. We have rules and regulations, and there is supposed to be some consistency, but whereas Manager A wants to sort books in delivery before processing them, Manager B just processes them and doesn't bother with the sorting (and the latter, I might add, is faster).
And I know of at least one manager who makes all his own rules where personnel are concerned, and tells his staff they must NEVER EVER talk to the administrators downtown (he has secrets he is afraid they will tell, like the fact that he and a member of the staff subordinate to him are possibly having an affair...and the fact that he cheats on his time sheets and pads the circulation figures...)
I used to work for him, and he tried Dictatorial Leadership on me, and discovered, I don't take Dictatorsion (yeah, I made that word up). He told me never to call for him at the main library, but to call him at his place, and I asked why I would call his house when he told me he was going to be downtown... He also said that I was "too friendly" to the patrons (gee, aren't we supposed to be friendly). His branch patrons complain that his staff are rude, cold and uncaring, but of course, what they don't know is his staff have been threatened against being friendly. He wants to be the friendly one. He wants people liking him more than his staff.
Apparently, he has issues. Anger management and a lack of self worth being high on the list.
Oh, well.
Just getting stuff off my chest.
Later,
Laura J. Underwood
