for those who call the library, &*$# you!

[depechemodefan]

case one

idiot one = i1
idiot two = i2

=me

i1: Hi, can you tell me who started the field of oncology and when?
me: ok *goes online* let me read this to you "around 1600 bc the egyptians diagnosised breast cancer....also, the history of surgical oncology dates back to the time of the Greek and Roman empires, when people like Hippocrates started to recognize and treat cancers...
i1: well, uh, I was taking the rail through the Medical Center and there was this plaque that mention the year 1845, and it was here in the United States...
me: so you are looking for an American?
i1: yeah
me; *looks online* I found this, "The field of Radiation Therapy (currently referred to as Radiation Oncology) was born not long after the discovery of x-rays in 1895 by the German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen." I don't find anything about an American.
i1: thanks for checking.

Ugh, why don't people go back to where they found the info in the first place? For all I know, he didn't read the damn plaque right.

i2: Hi, I think you helped me when I called before.
me: Sorry, I just got here (she is the fisrt woman I talked to)
i2: I need info. on OJ Ive. I called earlier but I was driving so I couldn't right down the information.
me: let me see if I can help you. Is OJ Ive a person?
i2: no, it's OJI, occupational job injury, I need information on that, like what is the employer's responsibiblities.

before I could finish looking online she hung up.
1) why did you call while you were driving? idiot.
2) it's not called OJI in this state. I was having trouble and luckily found my cw who helped you before, and got an idea of what you meant.

[cinema guy]

Oh irony, thy name is i2:

i2: I need info. on OJ Ive. I called earlier but I was driving the work van and crashed so I couldn't right down the information.

[ShinyGreenApple]

Do these people not know of Google?

[depechemodefan]

i2: I need info. on OJ Ive. I called earlier but I was driving the work van and crashed so I couldn't right down the information.

*snicker* awesome. though I just realized I used the wrong word there. ah well. But yeah, I wish management would let us hang up on people who are calling us while driving. Fucking driving, and it's not like "what time you close," it's usually something where we have to ask their library card number and they reply, "oh I'm drivng right now, can I just give you my name and you look up my information?" or "I need to know the first ten states to join the Union...oh, but I'm driving I can't write down the information."

oh, and I got one other gem.

me: Thank you for calling blah blah blah.
idiot 3: 22477019423423

oh, this cunt. She never starts off with something that makes sense, like "I'm going to give you my card number, could you see if I owe any fines." (in this ex. I just changed it around to protect her ass's privacy). Before I would stop her and ask her why was she giving me a number, but by now she trained me to just start writing her number, and wait to tell me what she needs. Today she asked, "do I have a book ready at the X library for me to pick up?" Gah, why can't she be normal?

Do these people not know of Google?

I get people who call for some abstract thing, or something vague, which I can't find, then they say, "ok, I guess I'll just google it then." Why didn't you do that in the first thing? Oh, last week, this woman wanted the "Beauty of the Hair" school on X street. I'm finding in the phone book and on Reference USA "Beauty Hair" on Main and "Beauty of the Hair" on Long st. She keeps on asking me what am I looking in. I keep onexplaining that I'm using a phone book and a database that is up=to-date. "But I pass it by all the time, I can't believe you can't find it. I guess I'll just google it." At least she wasn't driving.

[chainedbarista]

no, they'd rather call in and waste depeche's time, even though they would have saved time AND effort by doing it themselves.

twice the effort for half the result.

[Mytical]

The internet is where only the bravest tread.
They tried to enter, got scared, and fled.
Not being brave or strong,
They called somebody to help them along.
With much confusion in their head.

Not knowing what they wanted at all,
They had to make a quick call.
They tried to explain
They hoped not in vain
but set themselves up for a fall.

((Now I just need a good closer lol))

[aurelemsrealm]

Not all of us info junkies constantly bother the library staff. Some of us know how to find it with minimal, if any, help. I live a few blocks from the town library, so I spend a bit of my free time there looking up random things as I think of them. I also live fairly close to the university campus, so I spend some time at the university library also. Then again, I was one of those kids who learned to read books and encyclopedias for amusement since my parents wouldn't spring for cable TV, and home computers and internet access were not yet common fixtures of the average home.