A View From Behind the Circulation Desk at the Library
I would like to quote Anthony Bourdain's excerpt from one of his books, The Nasty Bits - A View From The Fridge, page 281 and change some of his words:
"There really is nothing more loathsome or shameful than some miserable prick who walks into a library determined to have a bad time, ready to lord over a relatively powerless librarian (to most patrons, everybody who works at the library is a librarian). Behaving like a mean, sarcastic, superior, and dismissive "boss" to your librarian should be a flay-able offense. It really is in your interest --most of the time--to be nice to our librarian. It's also the decent thing to do. If you can't behave even in a library, then you really have a serious behavior problem. It's that simple. Bad behavior is for bars. They're used to assholes--and know how to deal with them."
So please leave your librarians in peace with their piles and piles of books to check in, and use the self-check out instead if you feel so inclined to vent out your emotional problems. Take your frustration, desperation, all the bullshitting elsewhere or leave all that outside before you step inside a library. As librarians we try to be as quiet, nice, gentle, polite and patient as possible, but some of you interpret this behavior to be submissive, so you bully us every time you come in.
"I feel bad today, I'll go to the library and try every possible reason to give the librarians a hard time" - That kind of attitude.
Perhaps you'd feel pretty good after bullying the librarian, but in the end and deep down you'd recognize that you're just a lonely, self-loathing and miserable prick. Please if you can afford it, go see a shrink because that is what you desperately need. And if you can't afford a shrink then "go fuck yourself!", as one of my more outspoken coworkers would have said that straight to your pathetic face.
"There really is nothing more loathsome or shameful than some miserable prick who walks into a library determined to have a bad time, ready to lord over a relatively powerless librarian (to most patrons, everybody who works at the library is a librarian). Behaving like a mean, sarcastic, superior, and dismissive "boss" to your librarian should be a flay-able offense. It really is in your interest --most of the time--to be nice to our librarian. It's also the decent thing to do. If you can't behave even in a library, then you really have a serious behavior problem. It's that simple. Bad behavior is for bars. They're used to assholes--and know how to deal with them."
So please leave your librarians in peace with their piles and piles of books to check in, and use the self-check out instead if you feel so inclined to vent out your emotional problems. Take your frustration, desperation, all the bullshitting elsewhere or leave all that outside before you step inside a library. As librarians we try to be as quiet, nice, gentle, polite and patient as possible, but some of you interpret this behavior to be submissive, so you bully us every time you come in.
"I feel bad today, I'll go to the library and try every possible reason to give the librarians a hard time" - That kind of attitude.
Perhaps you'd feel pretty good after bullying the librarian, but in the end and deep down you'd recognize that you're just a lonely, self-loathing and miserable prick. Please if you can afford it, go see a shrink because that is what you desperately need. And if you can't afford a shrink then "go fuck yourself!", as one of my more outspoken coworkers would have said that straight to your pathetic face.
posted by Nga at 9:54 AM
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