Oh, we have hand sanitizer, and most everyone ends up washing their hands a dozen times a day. (When my cold was at its peak and I was blowing my nose like twenty times an hour, I had to wash my hands every time, and I swear just walking back and forth to the sink was enough to wear me out, LOL.) I think it's just that we handle so many books every day, and we all work on the same computers, and no matter how careful we are about wiping things down, if there's something going around we're going to end up catching it.
We do still check out books. We have two self-checkout machines, one by us at the main circulation desk and one in children's, and people use both. Most people choose to check out with us, especially our older patrons. And yeah, there are so many adults who can't figure out how to use the machine, I can't imagine making it the only option. That's such terrible decision-making. It actually makes me a little angry, because that has nothing to do with helping patrons and everything to do with justifying what was probably some bureaucrat's ill-informed decision.
Ah, okay, you're almost caught up! I think the show really came into its own when Brendanowitz left. He worked as the straight-man character in S1, when Leslie was more like a Michael Scott-esque buffoon, but when they shifted tone in S2, there was really no reason for him to be there, and the whole love triangle thing between him, Ann and Leslie just bogged a lot of the season down for me. And him leaving brought us Chris and Ben, who are perfect.
(d), man. Fucking (d). Lately I've been really bitter about screenwriting and the whole stupid male-dominated film industry, and while grad school was a wonderful experience and I learned so much, and I still love writing dearly, I do sort of cry when I look at my student loan bill every month and realize I work for peanuts at a library because it was the only job I could find. But honestly, I think those are all valid reasons. Any one of them would be valid, but altogether... *hugs*
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We do still check out books. We have two self-checkout machines, one by us at the main circulation desk and one in children's, and people use both. Most people choose to check out with us, especially our older patrons. And yeah, there are so many adults who can't figure out how to use the machine, I can't imagine making it the only option. That's such terrible decision-making. It actually makes me a little angry, because that has nothing to do with helping patrons and everything to do with justifying what was probably some bureaucrat's ill-informed decision.
Ah, okay, you're almost caught up! I think the show really came into its own when Brendanowitz left. He worked as the straight-man character in S1, when Leslie was more like a Michael Scott-esque buffoon, but when they shifted tone in S2, there was really no reason for him to be there, and the whole love triangle thing between him, Ann and Leslie just bogged a lot of the season down for me. And him leaving brought us Chris and Ben, who are perfect.
(d), man. Fucking (d). Lately I've been really bitter about screenwriting and the whole stupid male-dominated film industry, and while grad school was a wonderful experience and I learned so much, and I still love writing dearly, I do sort of cry when I look at my student loan bill every month and realize I work for peanuts at a library because it was the only job I could find. But honestly, I think those are all valid reasons. Any one of them would be valid, but altogether... *hugs*