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I used to give tours in this library. Tours can be given to any group over 10 people. If a school brings in more than 20 kids, I break the group up so I can give a tour to 20 students at at time. Tours were only given Tue-Thur, mostly because we were short on staff and most people took their days off Mon. and Fri. I always had Tues. off. See when a tour is made when I have a day off? It only happened once though, because I was the only one who made the appts, until around 2002 when we got newer staff, and I dumped the chore on them, hee. Most of these stories happened between 1999-2004.
Story 1
One group had really hyper teachers...maybe they forgot their ritalin. The teachers asked me to show some indexes. So I'm beginning the spiel to the students.
t1=teacher 1
t2=teacher 2
etc
Me: This is the green index. If you have a subject *gets interrupted by...*
t1: tell them about the magazines it indexes!
Me: *blinks* this like the assasination of John F. Kennedy or the Moon landing on July 18, 1968 *gets interrupted by...*
t2: Tell them about how to request magazines!
Me: Uh (want to tell them to shut the hell up), the index will tell you which magazines had articles, and the dates *gets interrupted by...*
t3: Tell them where you keep the magazines!
I kept on ignoring the teachers, since I know I would blow up on them. But really, why not wait until I'm done? You'd think teachers would know better.
Story 2
Not sucky on teachers part...not really. But it's a Christian school. I go through the teen area and talk a little about it when some kids see some books on safe sex on a table on display. One of the teachers tell them "don't look at that!". So next dept., I add on to my spiel.
Me: In this department we have books on poetry, biographies on authors, criticisms, books on magic, witchcraft the occult.
Now the hall of fame of the worse tours ever.
Story 1
Man says that he called someone and that person said he/she scheduled tours for City Hall and our library. No, he didn't know who he talked to, and no, he didn't have a name. I call bullshit. Obviously he figured if he bs'd, then we would give a tour. The manager of course caved, and told me I had to give a tour, even though I would be the only person he would talk to to set up a tour, or if he did just speak to City Hall, someone would contact me. I still asked him who, what, when and ph. number. He acted arrogant too.
Story 2
This time someone else got the job of being the tour co-ordinator. She talked with a school librarian who scheduled just visits, not tours. Tour means someone takes the kids round and say what is where. Visit is just the teachers bring the kids, but no tour is involved. Mostly because the teachers might have a limited time but have the kids working on a project. But the tour co-ordinator wasn't here the day this group came in. The teachers claimed there was a tour, and they wanted a tour. I told them I was told it was just a visit, but the women were being a pain in the ass and management caved in. The were very arrogant.
Story 3
A Social Worker from a hospital called on a Fri. and her info. was taken down. She was only bringing in 8 people. The rules for tours is if it's less than 10 people I have to get an ok from my manager. The manager is off Fri. and comes in at noon Mon. Sucky Social Worker (SSW) calls monday morning. SSW: I called for a tour and no one got back to me.Me: Hi, I got your information. You have less than 10 people so I have to get my managers approval to give a tour. She comes in at noon so I can call you this afternoon.SSW: You arn't going to help me?!?!Me: Uh, I am helping you. I just have to get an ok from my manager.SSC: (says some stuff, can't remember what, but she isn't happy).So SSW doesn't listen to me. She calls back right away and gets someone else and asks to talk to the person in charge of the library (who isn't my manager). My manager comes in and has to talk to the person in charge for an hour (why a whole hour?) and my manager talks to me that I'm giving the tour, just don't say anything to the woman. So I get the feeling that the SSW decided to overblow that I wasn't helpful. I kept on trying to tell her why I couldn't help her that min. but that I would call back, but obviously it's not good enough.
Story 4.
ST=sucky teacher.
Like I said, I give a tour to 20 kids at a time since more than that will be overwhelming. I tell the teacher that. What happens to this teacher? I go with 1/2 her class and she stays on the first floor. Then she harrasses a co-worker.
ST=you have to give me a tour! I can't have my kids waiting while she comes back with the first group!
So my co-worker gives a tour of one section when I come back and the teacher complains to me, even though I explained to her already when she made the appt.
Mother of all stories.
The co-worker giving tours took vacation, so I covered for her. This was the same week that I was going on my own vacation (to Italy and Greece!).
F***ing bi***=FB
F***ing ba*****=FBa
About 20-25 kids, 2 adults. At one point I asked the kids to please not talk while I'm talking, since the other kids can't hear me. The FB says, "You need to talk louder, they're talking 'cause they can't hear you." Rest of the tour is the kids talking over me, being a nusance, and one of my co-workers had to tell them, "Now pay attention to DMFan, and stop talking."Now every time I stopped with my spiel I would ask, "are there any questions?" No one asks anything. But as soon as I try to start then they have questions.At one dept. I'm in middle of the spiel and the FBa asks a question. I ignore him, and again he asks the same question. I stop what I'm doing and tell him "I'm sorry, I'm not done speaking, do you mind waiting until I'm done?" And he asks his question again. Ass.
Anyway, hated how the FB expected me to speak louder.
Story 1
One group had really hyper teachers...maybe they forgot their ritalin. The teachers asked me to show some indexes. So I'm beginning the spiel to the students.
t1=teacher 1
t2=teacher 2
etc
Me: This is the green index. If you have a subject *gets interrupted by...*
t1: tell them about the magazines it indexes!
Me: *blinks* this like the assasination of John F. Kennedy or the Moon landing on July 18, 1968 *gets interrupted by...*
t2: Tell them about how to request magazines!
Me: Uh (want to tell them to shut the hell up), the index will tell you which magazines had articles, and the dates *gets interrupted by...*
t3: Tell them where you keep the magazines!
I kept on ignoring the teachers, since I know I would blow up on them. But really, why not wait until I'm done? You'd think teachers would know better.
Story 2
Not sucky on teachers part...not really. But it's a Christian school. I go through the teen area and talk a little about it when some kids see some books on safe sex on a table on display. One of the teachers tell them "don't look at that!". So next dept., I add on to my spiel.
Me: In this department we have books on poetry, biographies on authors, criticisms, books on magic, witchcraft the occult.
Now the hall of fame of the worse tours ever.
Story 1
Man says that he called someone and that person said he/she scheduled tours for City Hall and our library. No, he didn't know who he talked to, and no, he didn't have a name. I call bullshit. Obviously he figured if he bs'd, then we would give a tour. The manager of course caved, and told me I had to give a tour, even though I would be the only person he would talk to to set up a tour, or if he did just speak to City Hall, someone would contact me. I still asked him who, what, when and ph. number. He acted arrogant too.
Story 2
This time someone else got the job of being the tour co-ordinator. She talked with a school librarian who scheduled just visits, not tours. Tour means someone takes the kids round and say what is where. Visit is just the teachers bring the kids, but no tour is involved. Mostly because the teachers might have a limited time but have the kids working on a project. But the tour co-ordinator wasn't here the day this group came in. The teachers claimed there was a tour, and they wanted a tour. I told them I was told it was just a visit, but the women were being a pain in the ass and management caved in. The were very arrogant.
Story 3
A Social Worker from a hospital called on a Fri. and her info. was taken down. She was only bringing in 8 people. The rules for tours is if it's less than 10 people I have to get an ok from my manager. The manager is off Fri. and comes in at noon Mon. Sucky Social Worker (SSW) calls monday morning. SSW: I called for a tour and no one got back to me.Me: Hi, I got your information. You have less than 10 people so I have to get my managers approval to give a tour. She comes in at noon so I can call you this afternoon.SSW: You arn't going to help me?!?!Me: Uh, I am helping you. I just have to get an ok from my manager.SSC: (says some stuff, can't remember what, but she isn't happy).So SSW doesn't listen to me. She calls back right away and gets someone else and asks to talk to the person in charge of the library (who isn't my manager). My manager comes in and has to talk to the person in charge for an hour (why a whole hour?) and my manager talks to me that I'm giving the tour, just don't say anything to the woman. So I get the feeling that the SSW decided to overblow that I wasn't helpful. I kept on trying to tell her why I couldn't help her that min. but that I would call back, but obviously it's not good enough.
Story 4.
ST=sucky teacher.
Like I said, I give a tour to 20 kids at a time since more than that will be overwhelming. I tell the teacher that. What happens to this teacher? I go with 1/2 her class and she stays on the first floor. Then she harrasses a co-worker.
ST=you have to give me a tour! I can't have my kids waiting while she comes back with the first group!
So my co-worker gives a tour of one section when I come back and the teacher complains to me, even though I explained to her already when she made the appt.
Mother of all stories.
The co-worker giving tours took vacation, so I covered for her. This was the same week that I was going on my own vacation (to Italy and Greece!).
F***ing bi***=FB
F***ing ba*****=FBa
About 20-25 kids, 2 adults. At one point I asked the kids to please not talk while I'm talking, since the other kids can't hear me. The FB says, "You need to talk louder, they're talking 'cause they can't hear you." Rest of the tour is the kids talking over me, being a nusance, and one of my co-workers had to tell them, "Now pay attention to DMFan, and stop talking."Now every time I stopped with my spiel I would ask, "are there any questions?" No one asks anything. But as soon as I try to start then they have questions.At one dept. I'm in middle of the spiel and the FBa asks a question. I ignore him, and again he asks the same question. I stop what I'm doing and tell him "I'm sorry, I'm not done speaking, do you mind waiting until I'm done?" And he asks his question again. Ass.
Anyway, hated how the FB expected me to speak louder.
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