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Thank you to geeky friends! And rambling.
Aug. 21st, 2006 03:27 amT'anks! I'm going to work up an explanation for her based on what y'all said.
We're hoping to get together soon, so she can get away from the evil work place, where upon I shall reiterate the fact that everyone up there is crazy and they're going to suck out her soul if she doesn't leave. I've been trying to get her to leave for a couple of years now and they may have finally pissed her off enough to do it.
Oh, I always had such stories when I was there. And everyone I told them to agreed they were crazy. I spent 8 years in Fayetteville NC and 2 & 1/2 in Elkin - as my friend Margie said "You never had stories like that when you lived in Fayetteville!"
What's really weird is I liked it there - parts were sort of mountainous, with great scenery, and Winston-Salem(the CITY) was about an hour away. I think it was that I got to travel around from branch to branch and do my thing and I didn't actually have to deal with patrons all that much. And there was really only one of the librarians that I truly disliked - most of them were okay and a couple were just wonderful people. And I think being forced to leave was why I didn't last in Greenwood - plus the unbearable cruelty of not having a/c in the Children's Department in fucking humid South Carolina.
But the director was a headcase (apparently the new director, a former coworker, isn't much better) and the Regional Board of Trustees was a pit full of ugly, vicious, venomous rattlesnakes (I couldn't think of a truly ugly snake, plus they were noisy :) ) - and that opinion isn't affected by the fact that they laid me off on the day of my first radiation appointment - I think their choices were short-sighted, but completely understandable. But most of them epitomize the small minds of small towns: the chauvinistic, good ol' boy network; anti-education; anti-new ideas; sucking up, currying favors, harboring grudges; and trying to elevate their little fiefdoms above all the others.
For months after I got laid off and switched to the job at the branch (less responsibility, less stress, less pay), I got comments about how relaxed and healthy I was looking - granted I only had radiation treatments for a month(?) after I switched. Anyone who saw B*, the other person who got laid off, said the same things about him - B* wasn't ill. And my friend J* reported to me that our former bookkeeper, who came in one Friday to help out the new bookkeeper, said that she felt like a huge weight had been lifted off of her - she retired due to a recently diagnosed illness. And J*, still there, has become angrier, more stressed and more paranoid. This is not a healthy place.
I joked then, and I joke now, the only way the place will ever get better is if they chuck everyone on the regional board, maybe the local boards, and quite a few staff, and start completely over. But it'll never happen. And it's a damn shame because this is an area that could really benefit from a vital, living library system.
* Initialized to protect identities, which, since I mentioned locations, is probably silly :)
We're hoping to get together soon, so she can get away from the evil work place, where upon I shall reiterate the fact that everyone up there is crazy and they're going to suck out her soul if she doesn't leave. I've been trying to get her to leave for a couple of years now and they may have finally pissed her off enough to do it.
Oh, I always had such stories when I was there. And everyone I told them to agreed they were crazy. I spent 8 years in Fayetteville NC and 2 & 1/2 in Elkin - as my friend Margie said "You never had stories like that when you lived in Fayetteville!"
What's really weird is I liked it there - parts were sort of mountainous, with great scenery, and Winston-Salem(the CITY) was about an hour away. I think it was that I got to travel around from branch to branch and do my thing and I didn't actually have to deal with patrons all that much. And there was really only one of the librarians that I truly disliked - most of them were okay and a couple were just wonderful people. And I think being forced to leave was why I didn't last in Greenwood - plus the unbearable cruelty of not having a/c in the Children's Department in fucking humid South Carolina.
But the director was a headcase (apparently the new director, a former coworker, isn't much better) and the Regional Board of Trustees was a pit full of ugly, vicious, venomous rattlesnakes (I couldn't think of a truly ugly snake, plus they were noisy :) ) - and that opinion isn't affected by the fact that they laid me off on the day of my first radiation appointment - I think their choices were short-sighted, but completely understandable. But most of them epitomize the small minds of small towns: the chauvinistic, good ol' boy network; anti-education; anti-new ideas; sucking up, currying favors, harboring grudges; and trying to elevate their little fiefdoms above all the others.
For months after I got laid off and switched to the job at the branch (less responsibility, less stress, less pay), I got comments about how relaxed and healthy I was looking - granted I only had radiation treatments for a month(?) after I switched. Anyone who saw B*, the other person who got laid off, said the same things about him - B* wasn't ill. And my friend J* reported to me that our former bookkeeper, who came in one Friday to help out the new bookkeeper, said that she felt like a huge weight had been lifted off of her - she retired due to a recently diagnosed illness. And J*, still there, has become angrier, more stressed and more paranoid. This is not a healthy place.
I joked then, and I joke now, the only way the place will ever get better is if they chuck everyone on the regional board, maybe the local boards, and quite a few staff, and start completely over. But it'll never happen. And it's a damn shame because this is an area that could really benefit from a vital, living library system.
* Initialized to protect identities, which, since I mentioned locations, is probably silly :)
