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Such a glamorous place to work.
We're posting a Reference Librarian position soon, and this week the boss sent the job description out for our comments. I told her that I thought what she had so far under-emphasized the fact that we're open to the public. We have to keep the peace between our students, who are paying 30K/year in tuition, and the public patrons, some of whom are homeless and some of whom are mentally ill. I thought that anyone applying should have some fair warning that just because we're a Big Name School doesn't mean the job is always Highly Intellectual.
I was thinking about this last night as I worked on the Reference Desk and one of our regular patrons, who is homeless, was having trouble keeping his pants up. He was trying to fix them, becoming aggravated and, every few minutes, letting out a loud curse or two. I kept reminding him that I couldn't allow outbursts like that in the library because it disturbed the other patrons, but I could hardly keep from laughing, and I didn't want to kick him out because he was actually trying to keep his pants on -- as opposed to the patrons we get every once in a while who seemed determined to take theirs off.
I was thinking about this last night as I worked on the Reference Desk and one of our regular patrons, who is homeless, was having trouble keeping his pants up. He was trying to fix them, becoming aggravated and, every few minutes, letting out a loud curse or two. I kept reminding him that I couldn't allow outbursts like that in the library because it disturbed the other patrons, but I could hardly keep from laughing, and I didn't want to kick him out because he was actually trying to keep his pants on -- as opposed to the patrons we get every once in a while who seemed determined to take theirs off.