Bring your own supplies!

[depechemodefan]

*I f*&^ing hate people asking for supplies.

I was trying to get a manager to handle a wacko when a guy came up. Since I was on the phone, and it was ringing on the other end, I asked if he had a quick question. He wanted to know if we had white out.

I told the guy we didn't have white out for the public. He said "You don't have it at all?" and I told him not for the public. This guy gave me the "you must be kidding me!" look. I did tell him we don't supply the public with office supply, they must get their own. He did go look for a cw and asked if we had white out. CW did go look; thank goodness he didn't find it.
1) I hated the look he gave me, like he didn't believe that I was going to keep him from his God-given right (under the 38 amendment) of getting office supply from the library. Where we have free internet and we let people borrow books.
2) I hated him going to get a cw. Just suck it up, and buy white out.


I really think these losers should not be given any type of office supply. Yesterday a diff. guy asked to use the stapler. I let him, since I figured he must have made copies on our machines. He was stapling a sign (maybe it says "will work for food" maybe "Jesus saves") onto cardboard. I think he used more than 20 staples. At one point I told him he used enough staples, and next time bring his own.

[4love]

Next time, lie. No, you don't have white-out. The fact that you don't have white-out for them to use really doesn't need to be mentioned.

I do that when people ask if we have a public phone. "They took out our payphones a couple months ago." This is strictly true and verifiable. The fact that they could, theoretically, use the store phone need not be mentioned.

I will make exceptions if a.) it's an emergency and/or b.) it's a SHORT, local call. Otherwise, there are too many times when we have a bookseller on each phone, plus a manager on their cell phone, plus someone waiting to make a call, all at the same info. desk.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

You should have told the guy the reason you don't give office supplies to the public is because so many are stolen/ruined, etc. and the few who have grossly abused the privilege have caused you to end it for everyone.

I was amazed when I find out how much money our college library started saving when they stopped giving supplies to people.

I know in college when I didn't have a supply I would either:

a) try to find someone I knew who had it
b) see if I could find a nice professor who had one in his/her office I could use
c) GASP! Go to the campus bookstore and pay for one myself.

[depechemodefan]

You should have told the guy the reason you don't give office supplies to the public is because so many are stolen/ruined, etc.

Then either I get "I won't steal it/ruin it" or "are you saying I'm gonna steal your white out? Are you calling me a thief?"

I was going to say, "no we don't carry white out since we use a word processor." but I was on the phone trying to find a manager, so I tried to keep it short.

Though yeah, shoudln't have mentioned that we did have it. He seemed incredulous that we didn't have any even for ourselves.

[Soulstealer]

I hated that when I worked for the university library. Students kept thinking that just because we had office supplies and someone paid their tuition it was for them to use. It's a library, we gave out books, movies, and internet access.

The bookstore also doubled up as and office supply store. I know I know it's not *gasp* free but that's actually for you. Our supplies was for us to use for library purposes not to be there in case mommy's precious angel didn't have paper, pens, whiteout, etc.

[vloglady]

Sometimes you can say it's a security issue. I don't give out scissors, staplers, white out, clips, etc. because they can hurt someone.

If you need something cut, give me the page and I'll cut if for you.

Susan

[infinitemonkies]

My college's library had a vending machine with all the basic supplies (Pens, whiteout, mini-staplers, scissors, paperclips, sticky-notes, etc) and astoundingly at reasonable prices too. Every library should get one.