My current favourite students...
Oct. 30th, 2013 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusSo, the job itself that I'm doing is massively enlivened by the presence of students in the library, some of whom are entertaining, others are clueless and a number are both.
My current favourite stories:
Student comes to me to say that the computer screen says 'check video cable' - when I go to see what's up, I discover that he's sat where the computer has been removed for repair, moved the sign on the keyboard that says so in order to try and log in but not noticed that there's actually no CPU under the desk.
Conversation with a bunch of students about the library being open 24/7 and my role in making sure they don't trash the place, to which one blurts out "I'm not gonna shit where I live!". Cue the rest of his group almost falling off their chairs with laughter.
Student wants to know where the overnight loan books are - they're shelved with everything else, though I know some libraries shelve them separately, so I'll forgive him for asking. But then why can't he find his book? Well, possibly because someone has used it for studying, which means it's on a collections trolley in the building after it's been left on a desk somewhere. He seems very disappointed I don't immediately know where his book is (with my psychic library powers, maybe?).
Other than that, work continues to be enlivened generally by the ineptness of my immediate supervisor, particularly where rotas are concerned - I don't want to work Mondays because of my course but he doesn't seem to be able to get his head round this. I can swap, he said when I asked about this, and there are two weeks of the remaining term that I'm scheduled to work on a Monday night, except that he's structured the rota in a way that doesn't actually allow for that without either back-to-back overnight shifts (thanks, but no thanks - the hours I'm already doing are kicking my arse for doing anything else the rest of the time) or shifts worked much too close to each other (thus breaking UK labour laws).
My current favourite stories:
Other than that, work continues to be enlivened generally by the ineptness of my immediate supervisor, particularly where rotas are concerned - I don't want to work Mondays because of my course but he doesn't seem to be able to get his head round this. I can swap, he said when I asked about this, and there are two weeks of the remaining term that I'm scheduled to work on a Monday night, except that he's structured the rota in a way that doesn't actually allow for that without either back-to-back overnight shifts (thanks, but no thanks - the hours I'm already doing are kicking my arse for doing anything else the rest of the time) or shifts worked much too close to each other (thus breaking UK labour laws).
