#this library

[char-aznable]

a perfect day for 🍌🐠

[bookmania]

I know right!

[carrieosity]

Job start weirdness

Well, if I thought not getting hired by my library last time around was awkward and strange, it turns out that that’s just how they do all hiring aspects in these parts, on both sides of the coin.

My start date is 10/15, which I only know because I caught my boss in the break room and because city HR had to cancel (“We’ll reschedule soon!”) my benefits orientation, but “that won’t affect your start date, which the director says isn’t until the 15th, right?” Right.

The reason it’s so far off is that at our library, subs cover more desk shifts than permanent librarians, and they need time to hire a few more subs to take over what I won’t be doing. They need three. Apparently, I was doing just that much.

Meanwhile, I’m in this weird limbo where I don’t actually know what I am doing. I’m still doing my old desk shifts, but I’m also trying to keep up with the duties I “temporarily” took over from the librarian who I’m replacing, and the boss has started forwarding me emails relating to jobs I can’t do yet or haven’t been shown. I don’t know my new schedule, I don’t know the budgets or framework for my collections, and I spent three hours yesterday making pinback buttons with pictures of dogs, because that’s what I got a master’s degree to do.

And every time I try to ask anybody about what I need to start on first, where I should begin, I get shrugs and smiles—“It’s your job! You can do what you want!” Okay, so they’re good if I start by replacing the entire teen collection with hentai and then doing The Vagina Monologues for preschool storytime, check.

I know it’ll (probably) be all fine in a few months, but for now, I’m entirely aggravated by how this is going. Oh, and it’s apparently on me to spread the word around the entire building that the job search ended and they picked me, because I’m still getting approached by coworkers whispering questions about if I “know anything yet.” Ha.

[carrieosity]

Headin’ to the library on vacation, as one does (when one is a librarian).

[moochul]

supposedly i only owe the library 30 dollars? 

im confused because that sounds fake af

[peachy--blossom]

if you think your library is cool then check out the one closest to my school because they have pokemon sessions after school where you can trade cards and hang out with other pokemon trainers

[animazed]

having wifi that's slower than dial up is such a tease