The Not Happy Thread

Kind of funny if you think that his greatest influence was the debut novel "Mrs. Bridge" by Evan S. Connell.

 

@Catrin Lewis let me give you a hug. Can't do much more (I'm going into quarantine as soon as I get back home from training and no, I'm not happy about that because of so many reasons... ) but I really hope you and your sisters manage to show each other that all of you care, and you'll get through that together.

 

Ordering new releases for the over all fiction collection (library)

 

Unfortunately, ordering books for a whole library system... My own person preferences dont matter

Boss says im ordering too many "no named" authors, so now i have to write a report about it...

 

A report upon what exactly? Why you order "no named" authors? Your views about their creations? Or is it something as mundane as a report on sales?

 

Why i order them (how i decide what to order)... How much money i dedicate to "no names"... Statistics on how much of the (local) population read certain genres and who are the most popular authors to this area. I guess, all of that makes sense....but id be missing out on other great books and authors by not branching out.
The thing is, i get a monthly catalogue from our vender highlighting the new releases. I can see books being release in 2021 and read reviewes! Im also subscribed to journals. I dont just pull these books out of thin air (which is what i think he thinks)

(End rant, lol)

 

Then this report is a good thing then. It'd be a bad thing if you ordered books randomly and couldn't justify your course of action but since you can, then he might learn a thing or two from your point of view. Might turn out for the best. I'd get creative on it.

 

Taxes.
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(Can you tell ive practiced that, lol)

 

OK, not quite so Not Happy today. Talked to someone else at the skilled nursing place and my prior informant was wrong: They certainly can set me up a window visit with my mom this coming Saturday. Apparently they use the physical therapy room, that has a glass viewing panel.

That's something. What still gives me pause is the lady at Mom's independent living place who tells me we have till mid-November to move Mom's stuff out, so there's no hurry.

Well, thanks for the communication, Ms. Niece. Too late to arrange for vacation time now: my flight and car rental are booked for Saturday at the crack of dawn.

The only real reason to do it now is because my elder sister, my niece's mom, was planning on driving down anyway, before this crisis with my mom happened. She wouldn't be able to come again later.

Oh, well. If, God willing, Mom can get into an assisted living place where we can actually see her, maybe later this fall I can use my vacation time and drive down. That's what I'd rather do, anyway.

 

To what degree do cardholders' requests influence your purchasing decisions? And how much money is or can be devoted to what you might call classics, or older books? Is there a balance to be struck between purchasing the latest teen vampire romance and say a George Eliot novel that you don't have?

 

Cardholder requests? Anything as long as its not independently/self published, and not a textbook.... And not over $50 (they were pretty adamant about that).

Budget? Im just given a lump sum each year with the direction of "have at it!"
(I've asked those questions in the beginning and was told "use your best judgement").
I dont order Childrens or YA. Only Adult. Teen vampires would be another department
I have not had to order classics... I dont order the rereleases or annaversary editions, especially if we already have any version of the title already.
At one point, when Bird Box came to netflix, i was instructed to order like 20copies. Now that the sequel is out (Malorie), i ordered 15 copies, and got chewed out....
So... After 2 years, i am still learning the dos and donts. The previous person who ordered adult fiction literally quit.

 

The rate trad pub is falling apart, your library might want to reexamine its policy against independently published books. Besides, how do they think the trad publishers got started? It's not like there's some kind of apostolic succession.

 

So how many times does a book have to be requested for it to be purchased?

 

Idk. Its only happened once before i started working there. The director was against ordering erotica. Then 50Shades became popular and they got so many requests for it that they caved.
People still bring that up...

I havent run into that (yet).

This adds to my frustration

I like my job and all. I like helping people; helping with their needs, recommending materials and talking about books. The technical side of it... Im not liking as much as i thought.
With my new degree, i could move up and become a manager and change how things are being done, but im still new to everything and not confident in myself to make that move....

So i complain on the internet

 

No I'm just talking about any book. Is one request enough for a book to be ordered?

 

Oh. Yep, one request

 

Our Lord and Savior spent a while talking about how George Orwell sent the nation into a panic when he read The War of the Worlds on the radio and my manager said he didn't think that was right. OLAS did a random noise of noncommittal disagreement and I just, "maybe Orson Welles?" And my manager said, "that's right! Man, I couldn't remember. Dogberry gets 1000 points for the day. Let's all chip in 20 bucks for--"

Then Olas said everything is made up and the points don't matter which, props to him for making a reference to Who's Line, but he had just spent so much time lying about a work procedure to my boss before he tried to say George Orwell was the... He then spent fifteen minutes telling us all about how no one could empathize with the people who lost someone on 9/11. It took everything I had in me not to say something about how people know what it's like to lose someone to a senseless tragedy, which is what he is, and that his mother should have swallowed.

 

Have you talked about this guy on here before?

 

A few times.

 

Had to turn on my furnace yesterday. 34F this morning. Not happy.

 

That's so cold. What was the temp outside?