So keep your chin up boy
Forget the pain
I know you'll make it If you try again
There's no use in quitting
When the world is waiting for you
Supertramp--Gone Hollywood
on the album Breakfast In America
Went back to work at Fakewood Library. Didn't want to but there was no choice. Thursday at our meeting around 11am Polly told me that she will transfer me but first has to decide where would be the best place to transfer me to. Then according to the union contract they will have to give the employee they are swapping me with 14 calendar days notice. Polly agreed with me that the library system has been swapping people from one branch to another, not as a "transfer" but just to cover one particular shift. She said that she would make some calls and try to arrange some temporary transfers for me. However she called back yesterday afternoon to tell me that she had not been able to arrange anything and I had to either work at Fakewood Library or not get paid.
It wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been. While my supervisor, Roberta, seems utterly clueless and steadfastly argued to me that she made NO mistakes whatsoever in her handling of this, I was mostly able to avoid any but the most banal contact with her at work yesterday and my 7.5 hour shift went okay. I am however being quite anal about recording Exactly what I do and how much of it I do each hour at work. Yesterday's notes:
10:30--10:50am-- created a new cart stocked with two cart shelves of Mysteries. Shelved the cart.
10:50am--11am-- created a new cart stocked with three cart shelves of Mysteries
11am--11:15 am-- received postal mail delivery. pulled out all newspapers from the mail bin. Checked newspapers in on the newspaper tally sheet. Put all newspapers on the display shelves for patrons to use.
11:115am--12noon checked in returned library materials. checked in 145 items and had all put away on the holding shelves and the check in desk cleared for the next page by exactly 12 noon.
12noon--12:15 pm Break, as per union contract and branch rules
12:15--12:45pm-- shelved cart with three shelf carts of Mysteries as well as about 1 dozen paperbacks and 1 dozen magazines
12:45pm--1:00pm--shelved 1 cart shelf of Non-Fiction
1pm--1:15pm-- located a particular magazine per managing librarian's request. This required going down to the (non-public) basement old magazine stacks and then out to the public magazine racks where the requested issue actually was located.
1:15--2:00pm--checked in returned library materials. checked in 166 items and had all put away on the holding shelves and the check in desk cleared for the next page by exactly 2pm
2--2:30pm-- unpaid lunch break per contract and rules
2:30--3pm--shelved 1.5 cart shelves on Non-Fiction
3--4pm-- checked in 147 items of returned library materials. had all put away and desk cleared for next page.
4--4:15 pm-- Break, as per contract and rules
4:15--4:30 pm-- did clean up and pickups in children's and reference section per daily page schedule
4:30--5pm-- shelved 3 cart shelves Fiction.
5--6pm--- coordinated with other page on duty. performed evening pick up rounds and other closing hour tasks as per regular schedule and arrangements
My stress level was dangerously high at the beginning of the day. (I was literally hyper-ventilating non-stop when shelving in Mysteries at the start of my shift). I did take a total of 3 xanax to get through the day yesterday and also took my afternoon dose of the new med at lunch. Today I am enjoying being off and not having to go back in to work until tomorrow. Also am counting the days until I get transferred to small branch where I hope and pray I will get along well with the supervisor and my co-workers in the new location.
More later.
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