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Regulars... some you love, some not so much...
I just finished a two hour morningshift - and had my top 3 of SC's come in. Old stories and new from them!
Old and flirty
This one comes by every day. He's basically what i'd put in the dictionary alongside "old creep". He's always flirting with everything that looks remotely female and old enough to be father to everyone who works here (more perspective? One CW is retiring next year)
Some days he's not too bad, other days i want to deny him entrance. The story here is about a year old now:
Me: Hello OF - how are you?
OF: Heya Librarian, i'm fine thanks! Newspapers in yet?
Me: Yup, on their usual spot! (a story higher)
*5 minutes later*
CW: *was working on story 2 and comes down visibly upset* You know what OF did?
Me: What happened?
CW: he kissed me on the cheeck! He thanked me for getting a book for him and kissed me!
Me:
to CW2 (male and timid): let's go (headlibrarian wasn't around - i was angry but not comfortable enough to face him alone - i'm the youngest female in our entire group)
CW2 and me find OF:
Me: OF, can we talk to you please?
OF: sure
(took him to a quieter place)
Me: OF, you realise you upset CW1 alot?
OF: What? How?
Me: It's not appropriate to kiss her! You've been upsetting a few of us for a while now! Please stop flirting.
OF: I didn't upset her! She liked it! She laughed at me!
*long convo short, CW2 had some words for him too - he left and we decided to have CW1 talk to the head librarian when he came in that noon.
In the end, CW1 didn't want to get him banned, but headlibrarian wouldn't let OF in the library anymore until he at least apologised and realised his behaviour (not just the kiss) was wrong. CW1 didn't even ask for the apology, she said "she knows OF is that way, he's always flirting with everyone, it's no big deal"
We still see OF on a near daily basis. He still flirts with CW1 and one other CW - we always tell them if he's making them uncomfortable we'll make him leave, but they say "it's fine" - OF has learned not to try it on me or 2 other female CW's and never tried anything as daring as that kiss on anyone anymore. he still sucks.
Putting the books in the right place
We have one quiet type SC - i don't even think i've ever heard his voice - who always wears sandals, a short and yellow socks.
He has a *very* strong BO all of the times. Every morning he has the same routine: he goes to a random (as far as we can tell) rack of books and starts to put them in the right order.
Problem 1: "his" right order isn't necessary ours...
Problem 2: Even when banned, as soon as it's lifted, he just comes back and does the same all over again.
Problem 3: some customers think he works here since he's reshelving...
As soon as we see him come in we follow him (at a BIG distance, remember BO) and as soon as he starts reshelving, we tell him to stop - to his credit, once told he stops for the day.
Had to stop him from putting all the new books in the shelves with the older books today, nearly fainted since it's especially bad with summer heat and all...
Flirty
Another flirty customer... This one only tries to chat up to the two youngest of the female CWs - one of them is me.
He knows i'm the *tech person* in the library and i've started to suspect he's inventing problems or questions just to talk to me. Still not flattered.
Today's problem: printing something off a USB stick. He said he didn't know how/where to put the USB in the computer to print some word-files from it. No matter that i've seen him doing exactly this more than once already.
The PC is at kneeheight, about half a meter to the left of the screen - he was sitting right at the computer instead of at the screen - knowing full well i would have to lean real close to him to show him.
Me: sure, just let me get my (male) CW to help, i'm just serving the people over there
(Liez! i know the people who were standing there and just went chatting to them, CW was very understanding
)
Old and flirty
This one comes by every day. He's basically what i'd put in the dictionary alongside "old creep". He's always flirting with everything that looks remotely female and old enough to be father to everyone who works here (more perspective? One CW is retiring next year)
Some days he's not too bad, other days i want to deny him entrance. The story here is about a year old now:
Me: Hello OF - how are you?
OF: Heya Librarian, i'm fine thanks! Newspapers in yet?
Me: Yup, on their usual spot! (a story higher)
*5 minutes later*
CW: *was working on story 2 and comes down visibly upset* You know what OF did?
Me: What happened?
CW: he kissed me on the cheeck! He thanked me for getting a book for him and kissed me!
Me:
to CW2 (male and timid): let's go (headlibrarian wasn't around - i was angry but not comfortable enough to face him alone - i'm the youngest female in our entire group)CW2 and me find OF:
Me: OF, can we talk to you please?
OF: sure
(took him to a quieter place)
Me: OF, you realise you upset CW1 alot?
OF: What? How?
Me: It's not appropriate to kiss her! You've been upsetting a few of us for a while now! Please stop flirting.
OF: I didn't upset her! She liked it! She laughed at me!
*long convo short, CW2 had some words for him too - he left and we decided to have CW1 talk to the head librarian when he came in that noon.
In the end, CW1 didn't want to get him banned, but headlibrarian wouldn't let OF in the library anymore until he at least apologised and realised his behaviour (not just the kiss) was wrong. CW1 didn't even ask for the apology, she said "she knows OF is that way, he's always flirting with everyone, it's no big deal"
We still see OF on a near daily basis. He still flirts with CW1 and one other CW - we always tell them if he's making them uncomfortable we'll make him leave, but they say "it's fine" - OF has learned not to try it on me or 2 other female CW's and never tried anything as daring as that kiss on anyone anymore. he still sucks.
Putting the books in the right place
We have one quiet type SC - i don't even think i've ever heard his voice - who always wears sandals, a short and yellow socks.
He has a *very* strong BO all of the times. Every morning he has the same routine: he goes to a random (as far as we can tell) rack of books and starts to put them in the right order.
Problem 1: "his" right order isn't necessary ours...
Problem 2: Even when banned, as soon as it's lifted, he just comes back and does the same all over again.
Problem 3: some customers think he works here since he's reshelving...
As soon as we see him come in we follow him (at a BIG distance, remember BO) and as soon as he starts reshelving, we tell him to stop - to his credit, once told he stops for the day.
Had to stop him from putting all the new books in the shelves with the older books today, nearly fainted since it's especially bad with summer heat and all...
Flirty
Another flirty customer... This one only tries to chat up to the two youngest of the female CWs - one of them is me.
He knows i'm the *tech person* in the library and i've started to suspect he's inventing problems or questions just to talk to me. Still not flattered.
Today's problem: printing something off a USB stick. He said he didn't know how/where to put the USB in the computer to print some word-files from it. No matter that i've seen him doing exactly this more than once already.
The PC is at kneeheight, about half a meter to the left of the screen - he was sitting right at the computer instead of at the screen - knowing full well i would have to lean real close to him to show him.
Me: sure, just let me get my (male) CW to help, i'm just serving the people over there
(Liez! i know the people who were standing there and just went chatting to them, CW was very understanding
)
) he wears something under it - with shorts i mean something like this: 
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