TMW ..... You now currently order every adult facet of the library EXCEPT audiobooks, dvds, CDs, cookbooks, health, and art. The duties they took from me and gave yo other people in order to lessen my workload, were given BACK to me
That moment when your manager finally sends you the links for the e-learning courses she was supposed to send you three months ago, on a day when you're working and won't even have time to look at them until 8pm, and expects them all to be done today. Yes, we all found polite ways to tell her there's no way that's going to happen. Also, that moment when all your plans for your two days off are out the window, because you have to do the aforementioned e-learning courses. I don't hate my job, but I definitely hate all the bullsh*t that comes with it.
Sounds like your impending absence is going to make them question their professional decisions. Don't give them a minute's more notice than absolutely necessary.
That moment when you are arguing with someone and they repeat what you just said and think they've proved their argument Me: You need to know what the subject is in order to determine whether you should use me or myself, because you only use myself when you are the subject. Them: This is rubbish because you only use myself when you are the subject Me: Dude...
I had a "TMW" last night at work but was too wound up about it to share. TMW someone asks for help, but then they get mad at you for helping... And then get mad when you STOP helping AND THEN want you to go through files on their laptop while they walk away, but get mad when you say you wont touch their stuff without supervision....and also accuses you of going through files on their laptop WHILE THEY ARE SUPERVISING YOU DOING THE THE TASK THEY ASKED YOU TO DO. Like, what do you want from me!?
He wants someone to yell at. Poor dear, he's obviously an idiot, but so terribly sensitive that he'd dissolve into a puddle of despair if he yelled at himself. What you need is a polite librarianly way to say, "Fuck you and the mule you rode in on."
Catherine the Great rode mules? I assure you I am neither Prussion nor Russian. Southern belle version is, "Well, bless your heart, honey. You can't help being ugly, but you could stay home." (Ugly refers to attitude/bad manners and not physical appearance.)
I hope it helped that she was in her own home when it happened. And you were able to be there. My condolences. You have a new state of being to get used to.
That moment when you're reading your old high school journal and it hits you you're just as snarky, overly-intellectual, emotionally-immature, and insecure as you were 51 years ago. Well, nearly so. I no longer believe it's the depth of egotism to hope people will put up with me for more than two or three minutes at a time.
For British kids humour, here's my brother's version (from sometime in the 1990s, when he was about 10): Yankee Doodle came to Spar Riding on a pony He got ripped off and said f*** off Because his goods were phony
Yup. As someone once told me, no matter how old you are, you are always an orphan when your second parent dies.
Whats it like being 1 of 2 degreed black librarians in the library, you might ask? TMW your library posts a picture of you spotlighting a book and someone comments with a meme of a chicken leg being used as a bookmark....
Yes, that was an actual book written in 1809 by Jane Porter. Yes, I looked it up online and am having Emily read out the actual words from that book. Technology is incredible. EDIT: Here is the link: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Scottish_Chiefs/J_8nAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PR19&printsec=frontcover
TMW autocorrect/suggestion function on my borrowed laptop is out of control. So far, I have a couple of instances where it has changed "you" to "youtube" and "but" to "button". Its like... as a stutterer, its SOOOOOO annoying when you are struggling to get a word out and people try to guess what you are trying to say and end up guessing words like we're playing charades. This laptop is doing the same to me and, because its borrowed, I don't have access to change the settings. I guess I shouldn't complain, because I finally have a laptop again. But its making the editing process go a lot slower, since I have to now go back and correct the words it THOUGHT I wanted to type.
That moment when you're editing your novel and it starts to drag, and you don't know if that's because what you've written is tiresome, or because you've been up working three different jobs for nearly 24 hours and you're just tired.
