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Post by resolution on Sept 29, 2020 8:23:31 GMT -5
At age 16 I got a job working at a daycare center after school. I learned that parents don't necessarily want an honest answer when they ask how their kids behaved.
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Post by greeniis10 on Sept 29, 2020 10:15:42 GMT -5
How to professionally wrap a gift. I worked in a jewelry store because I loved (still love) jewelry and I learned a lot of interesting things, but I was raised in a religion that didn't celebrate holidays so when we did get gifts as kids they were never wrapped, nor were we taught to wrap gifts so that I one thing I've used the rest of my life.
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Post by flan327 on Sept 29, 2020 10:38:19 GMT -5
At age 16 I got a job working at a daycare center after school. I learned that parents don't necessarily want an honest answer when they ask how their kids behaved. I absolutely agree I always felt sorry for their kids
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Oct 5, 2020 12:23:21 GMT -5
Books go in Dewey Decimal order And librarians are really funny My experience with librarians has been far from good.
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Post by laterbloomer on Oct 5, 2020 13:37:42 GMT -5
what did I learn from my second job? It was smart of me to take typing I and II in high school. From my second job through all of my working life a keyboard was involved in part or all of my workday. Typing is the most useful thing I learned in highschool. I use it every single day of my life.
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Post by flan327 on Oct 5, 2020 13:38:41 GMT -5
Books go in Dewey Decimal order And librarians are really funny My experience with librarians has been far from good. Why? Care to elaborate?
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Post by TheOtherMe on Oct 5, 2020 14:11:21 GMT -5
what did I learn from my second job? It was smart of me to take typing I and II in high school. From my second job through all of my working life a keyboard was involved in part or all of my workday. Typing is the most useful thing I learned in highschool. I use it every single day of my life. Same for me. When we went to computers, many of the men I worked with complained that it wasn't fair that most of the women had taken typing in high school and the men had not. They had a course to learn to type but it had to be done on personal time. I had typing for the last 3 years of high school. The last 2, there were no boys in the class. The first year, maybe 20% of the class were boys. If you weren't taking shorthand, there were no more courses of typing to take.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Oct 5, 2020 14:12:24 GMT -5
I have always found librarians to be full of knowledge and very willing to share it.
Being a librarian is one of the career paths I regretted not pursuing.
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Post by flan327 on Oct 5, 2020 14:43:42 GMT -5
I have always found librarians to be full of knowledge and very willing to share it. Being a librarian is one of the career paths I regretted not pursuing. I thought that being a librarian meant liking books It also means liking people A public library is the place where people go when they don't know where else to go I worked in an inner city library for ten years We dealt with a boxer puppy in our Abitibi recycling bin A drunk driver smashing into cars in our small parking lot on New Year's Eve Teenagers having sex in the bathroom 🤷♀️
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Post by TheOtherMe on Oct 5, 2020 17:13:36 GMT -5
Since most of my library experience was in academic libraries, I'm sure that is what I was thinking.
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Post by flan327 on Oct 5, 2020 19:18:08 GMT -5
Since most of my library experience was in academic libraries, I'm sure that is what I was thinking. I felt awkward even USING an academic library...Dewey vs. LC
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Post by teen persuasion on Oct 5, 2020 19:52:19 GMT -5
Well, from my library job I've learned how to ask the right questions to get to the bottom of what somebody REALLY needs when they ask a reference question.
Also learned how to wear a dozen or so hats simultaneously (clerk/librarian/IT/maintenance/programming/outreach/cataloging/repairs/nurse/storytime/webmaster/social media/cybersecurity/reader advisory/computer training/tutoring/teen drama club advisor/...). Small libraries have tiny numbers of staff; I often work alone, so I'm everything at once.
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Post by cronewitch on Oct 5, 2020 21:00:56 GMT -5
People who aren't replaceable are replaceable. My supervisor knew everything worked every job in the factory, they needed her. The manager was new and didn't know anything, he was fresh out of college, she had been there 8 years. She was the only one who knew her job. I should do what she told me and if our work was caught up sit and visit. I was told pay raise after 30 days if I did good and I was doing exactly what she told me, but no pay raise. I asked the manager about it and he said never sit on the job and I talked too much, if not working clean. Another department head saw me working and said she thought she could train me to be ok. I was transferred, never spoke to anyone again, ran between tasks and ran to my boss to tell her if out of work, if she didn't have work I cleaned the bathroom spotless from filth. Every month the manager called me to give me a raise. Then one day he tells me the unreplaceable women was going to be hard to replace but we were going to try. He had me, a secretary and time motion man take her job and figure out how to do it right. She wasn't that hard to replace. I went from 1.25 to 1.65 a nickel raise at a time over 4 months. When I quit they probably replaced me, I wasn't special.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Oct 6, 2020 7:21:56 GMT -5
Well, from my library job I've learned how to ask the right questions to get to the bottom of what somebody REALLY needs when they ask a reference question. Also learned how to wear a dozen or so hats simultaneously (clerk/librarian/IT/maintenance/programming/outreach/cataloging/repairs/nurse/storytime/webmaster/social media/cybersecurity/reader advisory/computer training/tutoring/teen drama club advisor/...). Small libraries have tiny numbers of staff; I often work alone, so I'm everything at once. It's the librarian knowing which questions to ask to get me to what I needed is what I really appreciated. When I was using academic libraries, it was before computers. I also liked to go to the library for my lunch hour at my first job. I was naive and didn't know perverts hang out at libraries. My dad had taken me there once a week for years and nobody ever bothered me. I was perusing the stacks or reading a book in the stacks and I got flashed. That was a first for an 18 year old who never considered anyone would do that.
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Post by flan327 on Oct 6, 2020 11:37:35 GMT -5
Well, from my library job I've learned how to ask the right questions to get to the bottom of what somebody REALLY needs when they ask a reference question. Also learned how to wear a dozen or so hats simultaneously (clerk/librarian/IT/maintenance/programming/outreach/cataloging/repairs/nurse/storytime/webmaster/social media/cybersecurity/reader advisory/computer training/tutoring/teen drama club advisor/...). Small libraries have tiny numbers of staff; I often work alone, so I'm everything at once. YES to the hats we have to wear! I spent 10 years in beautiful Carnegie library. There were technically 3 floors so no one was ever supposed to be alone (for safety's sake). Sometimes it couldn't be avoided. Fortunately we had wonderful neighbors.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Oct 8, 2020 15:04:55 GMT -5
My experience with librarians has been far from good. Why? Care to elaborate? About 8 years old, I lost a book. The librarian cancelled my library card and wouldn't let me have one ever. As an adult, I happened into a group with a school librarian that would get new teachers fired from their jobs. She used germ warfare and still does. Very bad actor.
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Post by flan327 on Oct 9, 2020 12:49:07 GMT -5
About 8 years old, I lost a book. The librarian cancelled my library card and wouldn't let me have one ever. As an adult, I happened into a group with a school librarian that would get new teachers fired from their jobs. She used germ warfare and still does. Very bad actor.
I am so sorry to hear that Those must have been very bitter women
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