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NOTE: While technically not really a job in that I didn't get paid, it still counted as work experience and ACE credit.
When I was in my junior year in high school my ACE internship was in the library, so during third period I would help shelve books and check out books, that way the school librarians could work on stuff in the back like order books and bind books, etc. (They also worked on textbooks)
But one time, I happened to overhear a bunch of racist hateful crap coming from a walking stereotype of a ghetto rapper. He is actually listening to his iPod and is of all things, singing along to his music IN THE LIBRARY. Before the seniors could walk up and complain, I walked over to the student and said "Can you please not sing in the library? There are people trying to study."
(I left out the fact that we had also shared libraries with the Jr. High school that was renting space upstairs since I knew that he'd only sing louder and emphasize the epithets and slangs and F-Bombs if I had let him know 7th graders were scheduled to come in to work on Research assignments)
His response?
Ghetto Rappa: "I'm not singing, i'm RAPPING!"
So I of course then just tell him to be quiet, and he actually does quiet down so that no one couldh ear him unless they were within 5 feet of him. Then he starts rapping louder again, this time so loud the librarian hears and she asks me to tell him to stop.
I explain to her that I had already told Mr. Rapper that he had been asked to quiet down already, so she walks over to tell him to quiet down, especially since someone came to pick up a printed assignment and I needed to hand it to them.
She then walks over and takes his iBuds out by the cord (which could break them) and tells him to quiet down. He just snaps them back and continues to yell hateful and racist garbage. Not losing her calm, she dialed the assistant principal and within a few minutes he walked in and asked him to stop rapping in the library. He does nothing but drone him out with racial epithets and sexism. He tried to use force, but that didn't work so he actually called the custodians. Three custodians walked in and then picked up the rapper and carried him out of the library. All the while, he didn't stop rapping, and then the 7th graders started to come downstairs and some of them asked me what the N-Bomb, H-slang, and F-Word meant. (I also had to help define a few words since some kids were too lazy to look them up themselves)
Fortunately he got suspended and had his iPod confiscated. He tried to do it again but this time he got hit with a permanent Library Ban unless accompanied by a Teacher. So far, Mr. Rapper is probably the first and only person to actually have been banned from the library.
When I was in my junior year in high school my ACE internship was in the library, so during third period I would help shelve books and check out books, that way the school librarians could work on stuff in the back like order books and bind books, etc. (They also worked on textbooks)
But one time, I happened to overhear a bunch of racist hateful crap coming from a walking stereotype of a ghetto rapper. He is actually listening to his iPod and is of all things, singing along to his music IN THE LIBRARY. Before the seniors could walk up and complain, I walked over to the student and said "Can you please not sing in the library? There are people trying to study."
(I left out the fact that we had also shared libraries with the Jr. High school that was renting space upstairs since I knew that he'd only sing louder and emphasize the epithets and slangs and F-Bombs if I had let him know 7th graders were scheduled to come in to work on Research assignments)
His response?
Ghetto Rappa: "I'm not singing, i'm RAPPING!"
So I of course then just tell him to be quiet, and he actually does quiet down so that no one couldh ear him unless they were within 5 feet of him. Then he starts rapping louder again, this time so loud the librarian hears and she asks me to tell him to stop.
I explain to her that I had already told Mr. Rapper that he had been asked to quiet down already, so she walks over to tell him to quiet down, especially since someone came to pick up a printed assignment and I needed to hand it to them.
She then walks over and takes his iBuds out by the cord (which could break them) and tells him to quiet down. He just snaps them back and continues to yell hateful and racist garbage. Not losing her calm, she dialed the assistant principal and within a few minutes he walked in and asked him to stop rapping in the library. He does nothing but drone him out with racial epithets and sexism. He tried to use force, but that didn't work so he actually called the custodians. Three custodians walked in and then picked up the rapper and carried him out of the library. All the while, he didn't stop rapping, and then the 7th graders started to come downstairs and some of them asked me what the N-Bomb, H-slang, and F-Word meant. (I also had to help define a few words since some kids were too lazy to look them up themselves)
Fortunately he got suspended and had his iPod confiscated. He tried to do it again but this time he got hit with a permanent Library Ban unless accompanied by a Teacher. So far, Mr. Rapper is probably the first and only person to actually have been banned from the library.
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