Tales from the library

[AbbyTC]

Hey!  This is Tales from the Library, not Mac and Microsoft Musings! 

BTW, it's true, once you go Mac, you never go back.  Love my Apple laptop and iPhone!

[Locutus]

So tell us some new tales from the library.   

[AbbyTC]

Hahahaha!  I was typing while you posted that!

We have quite a few people who come in to the library who are on medication for psychological reasons .  We can always tell when they are off of it.  At our downtown branch, the manager was opening the building and as the people came in, one woman came up to her and punched her in the face.  No reason at all except she was angry about something.  At our branch, we found one guy back in the corner where the defunct dumbwaiter is laughing loudly and talking to it. We also had a guy who became angry because he thought another patron was staring at him.  He went over to the patron and started yelling at him to stop staring and mind his own business.  Staff quickly diffused the situation and calmed the guy down, although he stood at the desk for about 10 minutes telling us that the other man should not be staring and blah, blah, blah.  We've all become very good at looking interested and talking but continuing our work. 

I sometimes wonder if one of them will come in with a knife or gun and come after us and/or other patrons.  Just never know in this world. 

[AbbyTC]

This is a chair my co-worker brought over to me the other day.  Oh, the joy of working with the public.      Donned some plastic gloves, grabbed the upholstery cleaner, and it's just like new.

[me]

This is a chair my co-worker brought over to me the other day.  Oh, the joy of working with the public.      Donned some plastic gloves, grabbed the upholstery cleaner, and it's just like new.

You'd think she would have cleaned it before bringing it to you. It is a nice looking chair.

[AbbyTC]

You'd think she would have cleaned it before bringing it to you. It is a nice looking chair.

She's our reference librarian and was the only one working reference that morning.  It was very busy and she had no time to deal with it.

[me]

She's our reference librarian and was the only one working reference that morning.  It was very busy and she had no time to deal with it.

Ah, I understand that.

[Purplelady1040]

Hahahaha!  I was typing while you posted that!

We have quite a few people who come in to the library who are on medication for psychological reasons .  We can always tell when they are off of it.  At our downtown branch, the manager was opening the building and as the people came in, one woman came up to her and punched her in the face.  No reason at all except she was angry about something.  At our branch, we found one guy back in the corner where the defunct dumbwaiter is laughing loudly and talking to it. We also had a guy who became angry because he thought another patron was staring at him.  He went over to the patron and started yelling at him to stop staring and mind his own business.  Staff quickly diffused the situation and calmed the guy down, although he stood at the desk for about 10 minutes telling us that the other man should not be staring and blah, blah, blah.  We've all become very good at looking interested and talking but continuing our work. 

I sometimes wonder if one of them will come in with a knife or gun and come after us and/or other patrons.  Just never know in this world.

It is extremely scary these days. We only have one library and they have signs up that if you are registered sex offender that you aren't allowed on the second floor where the children's section is. I often wonder how they monitor it and if they even get a list of names of those who are sex offenders.

[Palehorse]

This is a chair my co-worker brought over to me the other day.  Oh, the joy of working with the public.      Donned some plastic gloves, grabbed the upholstery cleaner, and it's just like new.

Ass juice; the scourge is real people!

[AbbyTC]

It is extremely scary these days. We only have one library and they have signs up that if you are registered sex offender that you aren't allowed on the second floor where the children's section is. I often wonder how they monitor it and if they even get a list of names of those who are sex offenders.

That wouldn't be easy to monitor and unless they know what they look like, it wouldn't be easy to tell who to kick out.  We actually had a guy sit at a table across from a father and daughter who was about 12 or 13.  The father looked over at the guy and noticed he had his hand down his pants masturbating while staring at his daughter.  Unfortunately, he left by the time the father told us what was going on.  But we did get a good description of him and we waited for him to return so we could call the police.  He's never been back since; guess it was too close for him being caught.  People have an erroneous idea that the library is a safe place for their kids.  If they only knew the types of creeps that come in.   

[AbbyTC]

Ass juice; the scourge is real people!

Always look before you sit! 

[Palehorse]

Always look before you sit! 

No lie.

At a former employer my staff had office chairs at their work benches in order to perform electrical assembly tasks. We had one contingency worker that a number of his peers complained about constantly. Body odor, etc.   Eventually he left the company and shortly thereafter I went into their area to talk totem about something. I pulled out a chair at a vacant workstation and thankfully I looked before I sat.

What the hell is all this white crusty stain on this chair from. i asked?

Him, was the reply.

I forgot what I had come in there to talk to them about, and silently rolled the chair all the way out to the dumpster and deposited it forthwith.

I have never failed to look before I sit since. . . 

[me]

 

No lie.

At a former employer my staff had office chairs at their work benches in order to perform electrical assembly tasks. We had one contingency worker that a number of his peers complained about constantly. Body odor, etc.   Eventually he left the company and shortly thereafter I went into their area to talk totem about something. I pulled out a chair at a vacant workstation and thankfully I looked before I sat.

What the hell is all this white crusty stain on this chair from. i asked?

Him, was the reply.

I forgot what I had come in there to talk to them about, and silently rolled the chair all the way out to the dumpster and deposited it forthwith.

I have never failed to look before I sit since. . . 

[Purplelady1040]

That wouldn't be easy to monitor and unless they know what they look like, it wouldn't be easy to tell who to kick out.  We actually had a guy sit at a table across from a father and daughter who was about 12 or 13.  The father looked over at the guy and noticed he had his hand down his pants masturbating while staring at his daughter.  Unfortunately, he left by the time the father told us what was going on.  But we did get a good description of him and we waited for him to return so we could call the police.  He's never been back since; guess it was too close for him being caught.  People have an erroneous idea that the library is a safe place for their kids.  If they only knew the types of creeps that come in.   

Exactly and I don't let our daughter go up there u supervised. I don even let our son and he is 14. Just too many weirdos put there.

[AbbyTC]

My manager, who runs the library (she's the library administrator), told me about the cleaning crews we had before our current one.  The one crew was a husband and wife team.  After noticing things not getting cleaned, she checked the camera footage out.  Turns out they were coming in, opening all the doors, waited for everyone to leave, and then walked out and came back in two hours or so.  They would clean a few days of the week, but the majority of the days they skipped out.   Another guy was part of a cleaning crew.  My manager was staying late getting work done and as she was walking out, noticed a light on in our slop room.  She went in and found a guy sitting there listening to his music.  He claimed he was on break.  She thought it was a little odd as his shift recently started.  She decided to check the cameras, and would you believe it, he went there every night and sat for one to two hours listening to music!