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silveradeptFor lighter fare, let me tell you what this pat week was like for me at work :
Monday: Teenagers destroy section of coffee bar-like seating by sitting too many bodies on the counter. Counter fine, support structure bent out of shape.
Tuesday: Talk with boss, find out that "being in charge" does actually mean you have the authority to move people from what they are doing if you need them elsewhere, and also that it means you're supposed to know and be aware of everything relating to an invent. Previous knowledge to this point has been vague statements and Capricious Boss's whims. Talk structured as "things to keep in mind" rather than "you screwed up", so panic triggers kept to a minimum.
Wednesday: Power outage one hour before scheduled end of shift. Demonstrated competence and awesome in getting everything locked up and closed off. Too bad nobody there to see it but fellow staffers. Find it that being person in charge does not confer authority to close library during dark hours after reasonable time has passed to see if power will return, but must instead wait for the sayso of a much higher authority. Takes me 75 minutes to get home instead of 20 after power returns to branch because power is still out on commute home, and nobody understands how to behave at nonfunctional lights.
Thursday: Webinar convinces manager of what I have been trying to say all along about video editing computer - needs stuff to do creation with. May actually get stuff, maybe?
Friday: Extend slideshow in teen area (driven by kiosk mode Firefox and code snippets in Javascript helpfully provided by #code) to display movie file ads. Tests successful. Comment code (and associated shell script from #code, as computer is running Slacko). Booyah.
And that's on top of the requests to work miracles, unjam computers, find good reading material, and deliver stern warnings about the noise levels in our teen area.
My job is never boring.
Monday: Teenagers destroy section of coffee bar-like seating by sitting too many bodies on the counter. Counter fine, support structure bent out of shape.
Tuesday: Talk with boss, find out that "being in charge" does actually mean you have the authority to move people from what they are doing if you need them elsewhere, and also that it means you're supposed to know and be aware of everything relating to an invent. Previous knowledge to this point has been vague statements and Capricious Boss's whims. Talk structured as "things to keep in mind" rather than "you screwed up", so panic triggers kept to a minimum.
Wednesday: Power outage one hour before scheduled end of shift. Demonstrated competence and awesome in getting everything locked up and closed off. Too bad nobody there to see it but fellow staffers. Find it that being person in charge does not confer authority to close library during dark hours after reasonable time has passed to see if power will return, but must instead wait for the sayso of a much higher authority. Takes me 75 minutes to get home instead of 20 after power returns to branch because power is still out on commute home, and nobody understands how to behave at nonfunctional lights.
Thursday: Webinar convinces manager of what I have been trying to say all along about video editing computer - needs stuff to do creation with. May actually get stuff, maybe?
Friday: Extend slideshow in teen area (driven by kiosk mode Firefox and code snippets in Javascript helpfully provided by #code) to display movie file ads. Tests successful. Comment code (and associated shell script from #code, as computer is running Slacko). Booyah.
And that's on top of the requests to work miracles, unjam computers, find good reading material, and deliver stern warnings about the noise levels in our teen area.
My job is never boring.
