Things I have learned, version 11
Sep. 4th, 2008 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptVersion 11 covers the last couple months on the tail end of my first year. It’s not to say that I haven’t learned lots of stuff already, it’s just that things have been relatively quiet on the Interesting Stuff list
1) Not everyone feels that their fellow beings are deserving of common courtesy, nor is everyone considerate of the possible effects their actions have on others.
1b) Some even take this to the point of telling someone not to talk to the librarian so they can sit and read the paper quietly outside of the quiet area.
2) Summer reading is a time of great fun, but an avalanche of stuff, so much so that things get forgotten. Writing stuff down/keeping an electronic to-do list is definitely your friend.
3) Every time I do something new, it’s an opportunity for documentation, because there’s some part of the process (or the whole thing) that doesn’t make sense to me.
3b)That said, there’s still a remarkable amount of stuff I don’t know. Only recently did I find out that there are multiple methods for the disposal of certain types of materials.
4) There is no telling what someone will be offended by in a book. I say this because every time I hear a complaint about a book, I get another confirmation of the wisdom of “access for all, without restrictions, without censorship, and without really giving a damn what people think about it.”
5) There’s also no telling what someone will be offended by in an interaction. Learning through feedback after the event is a clumsy way of learning, but it’s better than nothing at all.
6) Wearing the badge means that occasionally, someone will shout at you to “do something” about someone else. The fun happens when the other person is behaving within the policy rules.
7) I really need to work on my communication skills - I’m not getting things across the way I should.
8) Corollary to that: I keep finding out that rules bend where I expect them to be reasonably stiff.
Tune in next time to see what else about the world of my work and life I didn’t know before it happened to me.
1) Not everyone feels that their fellow beings are deserving of common courtesy, nor is everyone considerate of the possible effects their actions have on others.
1b) Some even take this to the point of telling someone not to talk to the librarian so they can sit and read the paper quietly outside of the quiet area.
2) Summer reading is a time of great fun, but an avalanche of stuff, so much so that things get forgotten. Writing stuff down/keeping an electronic to-do list is definitely your friend.
3) Every time I do something new, it’s an opportunity for documentation, because there’s some part of the process (or the whole thing) that doesn’t make sense to me.
3b)That said, there’s still a remarkable amount of stuff I don’t know. Only recently did I find out that there are multiple methods for the disposal of certain types of materials.
4) There is no telling what someone will be offended by in a book. I say this because every time I hear a complaint about a book, I get another confirmation of the wisdom of “access for all, without restrictions, without censorship, and without really giving a damn what people think about it.”
5) There’s also no telling what someone will be offended by in an interaction. Learning through feedback after the event is a clumsy way of learning, but it’s better than nothing at all.
6) Wearing the badge means that occasionally, someone will shout at you to “do something” about someone else. The fun happens when the other person is behaving within the policy rules.
7) I really need to work on my communication skills - I’m not getting things across the way I should.
8) Corollary to that: I keep finding out that rules bend where I expect them to be reasonably stiff.
Tune in next time to see what else about the world of my work and life I didn’t know before it happened to me.
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Date: 2008-09-05 03:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-05 03:12 am (UTC)I was Store Inventory Merchandiser at two different Half Price Books stores. Effectively, I performed the same job as that of a librarian, albeit in a retail environment.
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