"I worship you"
Sep. 28th, 2004 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morrigirlThat's what Mary Darden just said to me, her parting words as she flounced out of the building on her last day at the NYIT library. As of tomorrow she will be head librarian on the Queen Mary 2, a very prestigious position. It's awesome for her because she loves the sea and she loves travelling. She couldn't have asked for a better job. It's full time, pays insanely well, and will enable her to put most of her paycheck into savings since she won't have to pay for food, rent, or utilities.
It's bad for us though because now we're down one reference librarian, AND one library assistant. (Don't think I mentioned that. Carol has been out sick for two months because she nearly died. Long story. Suffice to say it's better without her, none of us miss her, and I for one am hoping she doesn't come back at all.) Even with all the regular full and part time workers we've been understaffed ever since the library was rennovated. They basically doubled the size of the library and didn't give us any extra staff. Retarded, I know, but the big wigs are all cheapskates and they want to expend as little money as possible on this not so little venture. So we're gonna be even further up shits creek now that Mary is gone.
On Saturday Seb and I had one of our heart to hearts during which he informed me of some details I wasn't previously privvy to. First off that NYIT is going to close the Cnetral Islip campus in the next year. It's just not generating enough income. This means the books and staff at their library will be divided between us and Old Westbury. Sebastien told me the head librarian over at CI, Rosemary, has been there forever, is well liked by all the higher ups, and not someone the school is looking to get rid of. Elisabete on the other hand has been pissing off important people left and right. Seb says there's a good chance Rosemary might be offered Elisabete's position once CI closes. "Which would be other jobs, and I told him yes I have. He admitted that he and Charles were both on the prowl as well. We're all fed up Elisabete's and NYIT's bullshit. None of the higher ups give two shits about the students or the workers. He told me I was doing the right thing, that it looked as though things were gonna get worse before they got better. He also encouraged me to use my sick days. He was like "Yeah if you get tired of the bullshit just take a mental health day." I adore Seb. He's so laid back.
In addition I just got out of an all staff meeting during which it was implied that there would be some major staff cut backs in the next year. I'm glad I'm already on the prowl, as the most recently hired, I'll no doubt be the first "let go." Eh, I'm not all jazzed about this job so I wouldn't be heartbroken if I lost it. Library work I like, working here, I do not.
But...on a lighter note, I think I just got a raise. There have been mumblings the entire time I've been here that NYIT was gonna give the library assitants a raise. Sure enough, my last paycheck was 20 dollars more than usual, which will eventually translate into 1K more per year. Still not enough to live on, still not enough to keep me at this job.
Still don't feel resolved but I'm glad I got all that off my chest. As usual the library is slowly killing me once again. My schedule is slaughtering what little bit of a social life I was able to eke out for myself over the summer. For two weekends in a row I've cancelled plans with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
daver40 because I was just too busy or too tired to do anything. Feel bad about having done so but...now that I work nights again I need to take care of myself if I'm gonna function. But having no social life is very demoralizing.
It's bad for us though because now we're down one reference librarian, AND one library assistant. (Don't think I mentioned that. Carol has been out sick for two months because she nearly died. Long story. Suffice to say it's better without her, none of us miss her, and I for one am hoping she doesn't come back at all.) Even with all the regular full and part time workers we've been understaffed ever since the library was rennovated. They basically doubled the size of the library and didn't give us any extra staff. Retarded, I know, but the big wigs are all cheapskates and they want to expend as little money as possible on this not so little venture. So we're gonna be even further up shits creek now that Mary is gone.
On Saturday Seb and I had one of our heart to hearts during which he informed me of some details I wasn't previously privvy to. First off that NYIT is going to close the Cnetral Islip campus in the next year. It's just not generating enough income. This means the books and staff at their library will be divided between us and Old Westbury. Sebastien told me the head librarian over at CI, Rosemary, has been there forever, is well liked by all the higher ups, and not someone the school is looking to get rid of. Elisabete on the other hand has been pissing off important people left and right. Seb says there's a good chance Rosemary might be offered Elisabete's position once CI closes. "Which would be other jobs, and I told him yes I have. He admitted that he and Charles were both on the prowl as well. We're all fed up Elisabete's and NYIT's bullshit. None of the higher ups give two shits about the students or the workers. He told me I was doing the right thing, that it looked as though things were gonna get worse before they got better. He also encouraged me to use my sick days. He was like "Yeah if you get tired of the bullshit just take a mental health day." I adore Seb. He's so laid back.
In addition I just got out of an all staff meeting during which it was implied that there would be some major staff cut backs in the next year. I'm glad I'm already on the prowl, as the most recently hired, I'll no doubt be the first "let go." Eh, I'm not all jazzed about this job so I wouldn't be heartbroken if I lost it. Library work I like, working here, I do not.
But...on a lighter note, I think I just got a raise. There have been mumblings the entire time I've been here that NYIT was gonna give the library assitants a raise. Sure enough, my last paycheck was 20 dollars more than usual, which will eventually translate into 1K more per year. Still not enough to live on, still not enough to keep me at this job.
Still don't feel resolved but I'm glad I got all that off my chest. As usual the library is slowly killing me once again. My schedule is slaughtering what little bit of a social life I was able to eke out for myself over the summer. For two weekends in a row I've cancelled plans with
daver40 because I was just too busy or too tired to do anything. Feel bad about having done so but...now that I work nights again I need to take care of myself if I'm gonna function. But having no social life is very demoralizing.
