The Curse of MOOOSE
Nov. 5th, 2017 12:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anonymoose_au11:50pm: So there's more skating on this week - this time in China, which is pretty good timewise for me...but OMG every skater I was really rooting for bar one screwed up - or got screwed (figure skating judging is notoriously iffy). Now obviously this is ridiculous, I don't control the universe, of course, but man, when five of your favourites end up way off the podium and I don't even know if two of the three who did actually deserved to be you start to get suspicious!
I'm starting to feel relieved rather than bummed that I didn't fangirl Plushy (who's 35th birthday was yesterday) earlier! He might not have become the unstoppable winner he was LOL!
My biggest beef, is that the female skater I like did a triple axel (which is a jump that like...only one other lady can do at the moment) and it wasn't the neatest looking jump, but she did all her other ones amazingly, but still ended up 7th because...I dunno...the rules don't reward that sort of thing anymore. Grumble, grumble.
In other news, there was a rather embarrassing incident at work for me today...a lady and her daughter came in to pick up a DVD they reserved. The first problem, it was the wrong DVD! D: How the Hell did that even happen? Fortunately I was able to find the right one, but it was old and the lady felt that it would be too scratched to work, so she asked if we had a DVD cleaning machine.
Well, we do, but I've never used it and I don't think I'm allowed, which I told her. She looks at me as if I'm a complete idiot and asks if there's anyone else who can. I ask the librarian but she doesn't know anything about it, so at this point I'm getting agitated, the lady is getting more demanding and I don't know what to do.
Finally, I go downstairs to the DVD cleaning machine and try to work it, but it doesn't work. One of the collection management ladies is there so I ask if she knows how to use it. She flips out telling me I shouldn't have touched the machine! Apparently it's really hard to use, and the lady who looks after it is away from work with a broken leg and none of them have been able to figure it out since she's been out.
So I go back to the lady and explain this, but she's still asking what is she meant to do if she takes the disc home and it won't play.
Well, at this point I lose it and snap at her, because I don't have an answer. Because even if she brings it back on Monday or whatever, I don't know if there'll be someone who can work the DVD cleaner there (I don't actually mention that). I tell her we won't charge her for the hold (even though I'm not supposed to do that either), but she STILL wants to know what will happen if the DVD won't play.
At which point I practically yell "I DON'T KNOW?!!" Other people in the library look in our direction, at which point the librarian has to step in and diffuse the situation. But the lady clearly thought I had a problem and was being unreasonable.
But I ask you...was I? Or was she? First off, it's a library, people borrow the DVDs, hopefully they don't wreck them, but if they do, they either need to confess or tell us the DVD doesn't play. I can't possibly know if it does or doesn't because I don't have a frigging DVD player, I mean there is actually one in the library, but it would have taken a fuckload of time to turn on and connect to the TV.
Secondly, I said I couldn't operate the machine, is this an oversight by library management? Maybe, but if I can't use it, I can't use it. But then I tried to and I can only hope I didn't break it! I suppose I should have stood my ground, but she was being extremely pushy.
Now the DVD has been descratched before, a few years ago, but honestly? It probably hasn't been borrowed since then, so.
The point is, the whole thing was embarrassing and upsetting and since we all wear name tags these days now I have to worry that I might be reported! Or that the librarian who I don't know very well, but seems a bit..gossipy might tell. And considering that just this morning another co-worker was telling me how much the appreciated me work as a volunteer and that I'm a great employee is disconcerting.
Or perhaps I'm being oversensitive.
I don't think I've been getting enough sleep lately, so I really need to go to bed right now (it's nearly 12:30am and catch up!)
And my NaNo is languishing with all this skating watching. :OP
So now, goodnight!
I'm starting to feel relieved rather than bummed that I didn't fangirl Plushy (who's 35th birthday was yesterday) earlier! He might not have become the unstoppable winner he was LOL!
My biggest beef, is that the female skater I like did a triple axel (which is a jump that like...only one other lady can do at the moment) and it wasn't the neatest looking jump, but she did all her other ones amazingly, but still ended up 7th because...I dunno...the rules don't reward that sort of thing anymore. Grumble, grumble.
In other news, there was a rather embarrassing incident at work for me today...a lady and her daughter came in to pick up a DVD they reserved. The first problem, it was the wrong DVD! D: How the Hell did that even happen? Fortunately I was able to find the right one, but it was old and the lady felt that it would be too scratched to work, so she asked if we had a DVD cleaning machine.
Well, we do, but I've never used it and I don't think I'm allowed, which I told her. She looks at me as if I'm a complete idiot and asks if there's anyone else who can. I ask the librarian but she doesn't know anything about it, so at this point I'm getting agitated, the lady is getting more demanding and I don't know what to do.
Finally, I go downstairs to the DVD cleaning machine and try to work it, but it doesn't work. One of the collection management ladies is there so I ask if she knows how to use it. She flips out telling me I shouldn't have touched the machine! Apparently it's really hard to use, and the lady who looks after it is away from work with a broken leg and none of them have been able to figure it out since she's been out.
So I go back to the lady and explain this, but she's still asking what is she meant to do if she takes the disc home and it won't play.
Well, at this point I lose it and snap at her, because I don't have an answer. Because even if she brings it back on Monday or whatever, I don't know if there'll be someone who can work the DVD cleaner there (I don't actually mention that). I tell her we won't charge her for the hold (even though I'm not supposed to do that either), but she STILL wants to know what will happen if the DVD won't play.
At which point I practically yell "I DON'T KNOW?!!" Other people in the library look in our direction, at which point the librarian has to step in and diffuse the situation. But the lady clearly thought I had a problem and was being unreasonable.
But I ask you...was I? Or was she? First off, it's a library, people borrow the DVDs, hopefully they don't wreck them, but if they do, they either need to confess or tell us the DVD doesn't play. I can't possibly know if it does or doesn't because I don't have a frigging DVD player, I mean there is actually one in the library, but it would have taken a fuckload of time to turn on and connect to the TV.
Secondly, I said I couldn't operate the machine, is this an oversight by library management? Maybe, but if I can't use it, I can't use it. But then I tried to and I can only hope I didn't break it! I suppose I should have stood my ground, but she was being extremely pushy.
Now the DVD has been descratched before, a few years ago, but honestly? It probably hasn't been borrowed since then, so.
The point is, the whole thing was embarrassing and upsetting and since we all wear name tags these days now I have to worry that I might be reported! Or that the librarian who I don't know very well, but seems a bit..gossipy might tell. And considering that just this morning another co-worker was telling me how much the appreciated me work as a volunteer and that I'm a great employee is disconcerting.
Or perhaps I'm being oversensitive.
I don't think I've been getting enough sleep lately, so I really need to go to bed right now (it's nearly 12:30am and catch up!)
And my NaNo is languishing with all this skating watching. :OP
So now, goodnight!
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