Jsyk, I have heard from librarian friends that, depending on where you live, a lot of the job can end up being telling creeps to pull their pants up and gtfo 😞
This was mostly my impression as an Interned worker. Most of our “checkouts” were ILLs (inter-library loans) from universities, so there wasn’t even much opportunity to talk about books with people
Have you met the general public? Sure, the 99% of them are cool, but sometimes a kid will pull out all the books. We had a guy come in shouting racist shit and staff couldn’t reject him because freedom of speech in a public place or something. Someone brings in a knife and security has to be called. And some people are just rude and take it out on you. They had to switch staff who was trying to help a patron because the patron made the staff cry.
I’m envious of every librarian I meet. Books and helping people??! Sign me the eff up, friendo!
Jsyk, I have heard from librarian friends that, depending on where you live, a lot of the job can end up being telling creeps to pull their pants up and gtfo 😞
Sounds like the Bay Area
This was mostly my impression as an Interned worker. Most of our “checkouts” were ILLs (inter-library loans) from universities, so there wasn’t even much opportunity to talk about books with people
I can vouch for that! Never been a librarian though.
Have you met the general public? Sure, the 99% of them are cool, but sometimes a kid will pull out all the books. We had a guy come in shouting racist shit and staff couldn’t reject him because freedom of speech in a public place or something. Someone brings in a knife and security has to be called. And some people are just rude and take it out on you. They had to switch staff who was trying to help a patron because the patron made the staff cry.
Source: family member worked at a big library