Someday my chintz will come
Jan. 13th, 2004 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morrigirlHere's what happens when Carla starts singing in the shower and gets the lyrics wrong:
....And since your Mom walked out your Dad could use a guy like me, (oops,)
Stacy's Dad is really really rad
He's all I want, and I want him so bad,
Stacy can't you see
you're just not the girl for me,
I know it might be mad
but I'm in love with Stacy's dad.
Now that I've gotten that out of my system......
I hate my temporary work schedule. For the past week and a half I've been working 12-8 because of mini session, and it is SUCH a fucking pain in my ass. I miss 2-10. I can't wait till Februrary when I get it back. 2-10 is sweet because when I'm working those hours I usually go tolunch at 3, and then all of my superiors leave at 5. So I only have 2 hours during which I need to appear busy. Between 5 and 10 I can chill out and pretty much do as I please.
But with this 12-8 schedule I'm saddled with 4 hours of which I need to look busy, and no way to fill them. Since my job consists of assisting patrons, and supervising the student aids, during mini session when there are no aids OR patrons, there's not really anything for me to do. So naturally I get stuck with "busy work," all because Elisabete won't admit that there is nothing for me to do and won't allow anyone to NOT be doing something. So she made me shelf read today, an activity that IS SO NOT in my job description. Shelf reading is a student aid job, it is something that needs to be done, but is the library equivilent of grunt work. I spent my three years as a student aid shelf reading, and I hated every minute of it. I was so glad when I discovered this job DID NOT entail shelf reading. So frankly I was pissed off when Elisabete sent me into the stacks to do it. I don't mi nd shelving, I don't mind looking for lost books, I don't mind prettying up the shelves but DO NOT make me shelf read!!!
I swear, there are so many other things she could have had me do. If she had asked Carol to teach me how to do Datatel input I could have helped with that. If Jennifer had shown me how to take off reserves I could have helped her with that. I...couldn't have helped Seb or Charles because, once again, the stuff they do is not in my job description. But reserves and circulation functions are so I don't know why they didn't just split up the work. Carol has been struggling with the datatel inputs all week, it would go so much faster if they just gave some of them to me.
And yes, I realize that leaving it all to one person enables them to stretch an actvity out longer than need be so that the person doing it can appear busy for a longer period of time. But honestly that is so inefficient. I think people should do the work they were hired to do in the quickest time possible, and if there's not more work for them to do, fucking send their asses home!!! Don't make up shit for them to do!!!! Honestly, if I do all the shelf reading there is to do (and our stacks aren't very large, so I WILL,) then there won't be anything for the AIDS to do when they get back!! Then Elisabete will have to invent shit for THEM to do!!! It's just makes so much more sense to let everyone do what they were HIRED to do. Frankly, I don't think I should even be working this month. Nor do I think any of the refernce librarians should. All they really need this month are the core people. All us flitty extras should just stay home.
And next week my schedule is gonna change yet AGAIN, because we're not gonna have evening hours. So I have to work 9-5, a whole seven hours of having to come up with shit to keep msyelf busy. Somebody shoot me.
And my back, OMIGOD MY BACK!!! It feels a little better rigth now but all day it was killing me. THis makes two days in a row so I'm starting to get worried. This goes beyond the kind of pain you get from trying to stand up straight. The problem is my lower back, left hand side to be exact. It just kills. Don't know how or why, but it aches like crazy, and the ache is speading to the rest of my lower back, and making my shoulders tense up. The ache has been accompanied by gastro intestinal problems making me think this might be some sort of kidney problem. But I don't have any health insurence so I can't go see anyone about it. Even if I could it's still too soon. If this continues for over a week then I'll start getting worried.
But as is it's sucking the life out of me. The pain makes even simple tasks like walking or bending or even crossing my legs a chore so by the time I get home I'm so exhausted from MOVING all day that I just go straight to sleep. Tried a nice long bath last night. That didn't help much. I slept for twelve hours and woke up with pain, and I suspect the same will happen tonight.
I hate my body and my body hates me. Any one know what I can do to help my back? Preferably something that doesn't require an office visit?
I need some new fiction to read.
....And since your Mom walked out your Dad could use a guy like me, (oops,)
Stacy's Dad is really really rad
He's all I want, and I want him so bad,
Stacy can't you see
you're just not the girl for me,
I know it might be mad
but I'm in love with Stacy's dad.
Now that I've gotten that out of my system......
I hate my temporary work schedule. For the past week and a half I've been working 12-8 because of mini session, and it is SUCH a fucking pain in my ass. I miss 2-10. I can't wait till Februrary when I get it back. 2-10 is sweet because when I'm working those hours I usually go tolunch at 3, and then all of my superiors leave at 5. So I only have 2 hours during which I need to appear busy. Between 5 and 10 I can chill out and pretty much do as I please.
But with this 12-8 schedule I'm saddled with 4 hours of which I need to look busy, and no way to fill them. Since my job consists of assisting patrons, and supervising the student aids, during mini session when there are no aids OR patrons, there's not really anything for me to do. So naturally I get stuck with "busy work," all because Elisabete won't admit that there is nothing for me to do and won't allow anyone to NOT be doing something. So she made me shelf read today, an activity that IS SO NOT in my job description. Shelf reading is a student aid job, it is something that needs to be done, but is the library equivilent of grunt work. I spent my three years as a student aid shelf reading, and I hated every minute of it. I was so glad when I discovered this job DID NOT entail shelf reading. So frankly I was pissed off when Elisabete sent me into the stacks to do it. I don't mi nd shelving, I don't mind looking for lost books, I don't mind prettying up the shelves but DO NOT make me shelf read!!!
I swear, there are so many other things she could have had me do. If she had asked Carol to teach me how to do Datatel input I could have helped with that. If Jennifer had shown me how to take off reserves I could have helped her with that. I...couldn't have helped Seb or Charles because, once again, the stuff they do is not in my job description. But reserves and circulation functions are so I don't know why they didn't just split up the work. Carol has been struggling with the datatel inputs all week, it would go so much faster if they just gave some of them to me.
And yes, I realize that leaving it all to one person enables them to stretch an actvity out longer than need be so that the person doing it can appear busy for a longer period of time. But honestly that is so inefficient. I think people should do the work they were hired to do in the quickest time possible, and if there's not more work for them to do, fucking send their asses home!!! Don't make up shit for them to do!!!! Honestly, if I do all the shelf reading there is to do (and our stacks aren't very large, so I WILL,) then there won't be anything for the AIDS to do when they get back!! Then Elisabete will have to invent shit for THEM to do!!! It's just makes so much more sense to let everyone do what they were HIRED to do. Frankly, I don't think I should even be working this month. Nor do I think any of the refernce librarians should. All they really need this month are the core people. All us flitty extras should just stay home.
And next week my schedule is gonna change yet AGAIN, because we're not gonna have evening hours. So I have to work 9-5, a whole seven hours of having to come up with shit to keep msyelf busy. Somebody shoot me.
And my back, OMIGOD MY BACK!!! It feels a little better rigth now but all day it was killing me. THis makes two days in a row so I'm starting to get worried. This goes beyond the kind of pain you get from trying to stand up straight. The problem is my lower back, left hand side to be exact. It just kills. Don't know how or why, but it aches like crazy, and the ache is speading to the rest of my lower back, and making my shoulders tense up. The ache has been accompanied by gastro intestinal problems making me think this might be some sort of kidney problem. But I don't have any health insurence so I can't go see anyone about it. Even if I could it's still too soon. If this continues for over a week then I'll start getting worried.
But as is it's sucking the life out of me. The pain makes even simple tasks like walking or bending or even crossing my legs a chore so by the time I get home I'm so exhausted from MOVING all day that I just go straight to sleep. Tried a nice long bath last night. That didn't help much. I slept for twelve hours and woke up with pain, and I suspect the same will happen tonight.
I hate my body and my body hates me. Any one know what I can do to help my back? Preferably something that doesn't require an office visit?
I need some new fiction to read.
