#so idk how standardized software is across library systems but at mine we have a software | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

arlathen · 2 years ago

Text

one of the reasons I hate my manager is because he insists on doing everything in the fucking stupidest, messiest, least efficient way possible. one of the things he insisted on is that we wrap the holds at the circulation desk. I work at a very busy branch that gets a lot of holds and wrapping the holds is kind of a messy process involving many stacks of books and carts and sheets of paper. in short it looks bad for us to be doing it at the fucking circ desk and also it's bad customer service bc people don't want to interrupt us when we're busy. and then i brought up that it was easier and often times faster to just have one person dedicated to wrapping them in back and then shelving them. instead of whoever is on desk juggling helping patrons and wrapping holds. he said it was an Absolute Priority that we get the holds out as fast as we can. again despite this not being a faster method.

ANYWAY. I do the desk schedule so I always put him on desk at 1 like. okay you wanna do this stupid bass akwards shit? YOURE the one who gets to do it then <3 and I walk outside. and what do I see? my shithead manager ignoring a cart full of holds while he weeds dvds. and don't even get me started on the desperately slow and inefficient way he weeds. i could have weeded dvds in an hour and he's been working on it for weeks. anyway.

#OH ITS A PRIORITY? A NUMBER ONE PRIORITY? IS THAT IT?? BUT LESS IMPORTANT THAN YOU WEEDING DVDS?????#so idk how standardized software is across library systems but at mine we have a software #where we can pick a collection and set parameters and itll run us a list of what needs to be weeded.#ex: im pulling everything that has circed fewer than say 5 times in the last year #you print out the list. you pull the materials. you withdraw them. youre done.#my manager. goes to the stacks. takes an entire shelf of dvds off the shelf. walks over to the computer.#and looks up the bib record for each one. so he can look at the ytd circ.#it takes him an hour to do one shelf. he puts 90% of them back.#it makes me want to scream every time i see him do it.#carly.txt

7 notes · View notes