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Let's just say I'm bit of an asshole myself. No, I'm not gonig to say "If you want respect give me respect" but I will say if you ignore me I'm going to bring the artillary.
So last Tue. night I am making my rounds on the floor, seeing if anyone needs help. I see a boy (maybe 8) asleep on one of our sofas and about equal amount of distance from him are people at tables. I can't tell who he belongs to, since any adult are about 20 ft away . And you are not suppose to sleep at the library, unless you are an infant.
So I get close to him and say, "Hi, you can't sleep in the library" maybe 4x. I'm looking around, hoping a parent will notice me. Finally a woman on her laptop and with earphones on looks up and says, "he's with me." I get close (not in her face close) and tell her he can't sleep in the library. She ignores me.
Now, if she said something like, "Some of the librarians let him sleep" or "some librarians told me depending on the circumstances a kid can sleep here" I might have still told her he can't sleep here. But if we could have started a conversation, maybe she tell me her point without being an sc, then I probably be ok. Heck, if she just nodded her head, like she understood what I was saying, I would just ignore the kid.
Now I will admit, I shouldn't have said anything about an 8 year old asleep. Parents are on the most part jerks. They will complain about other kids but if anyone says anything about their kid they will jump up like mad hyenas and try to tear your face off. So I figured this isn't going well.
I decided to get security to talk to her. Maybe if she talks to them they will be more comfortable with her. They did take training to talk to people.
Of course bitch says to them "Some librarians say it's ok for kids to sleep depending on the circumstances". And she was loud. Luckily she didn't come looking for me, but I have a feeling she is one of those people who think everyone is full of shit and she is a victim because she doesn't do anything.
And she wrote a letter and an email saying that she and her child was threatened with expulsion (which I certainly didn't tell her) and that we threaten to throw her and her son out when there was someone else around playing loud music-which I'm surprised she heard since she had her headphones on (no one was playing loud music when I was on the floor. I will tell people to lower their music).
So today I get a talking to. *sigh*
You know, if I stop telling people to wake up, not to take our stuff into the bathroom, not to eat or drink, not to destroy our property, just because I'm afraid someone will get all bent out of shape and complain, then our library will become hobo city. It's bad enough the cops don't want to come in here, and the cops want to speak with the manager to tell him how to keep problems from happening in here, but I don't want to play favorites and only bother the hobos. Some hobos are nicer than some ties who walk in here.
But maybe I should just keep my eyes closed here.
So last Tue. night I am making my rounds on the floor, seeing if anyone needs help. I see a boy (maybe 8) asleep on one of our sofas and about equal amount of distance from him are people at tables. I can't tell who he belongs to, since any adult are about 20 ft away . And you are not suppose to sleep at the library, unless you are an infant.
So I get close to him and say, "Hi, you can't sleep in the library" maybe 4x. I'm looking around, hoping a parent will notice me. Finally a woman on her laptop and with earphones on looks up and says, "he's with me." I get close (not in her face close) and tell her he can't sleep in the library. She ignores me.
Now, if she said something like, "Some of the librarians let him sleep" or "some librarians told me depending on the circumstances a kid can sleep here" I might have still told her he can't sleep here. But if we could have started a conversation, maybe she tell me her point without being an sc, then I probably be ok. Heck, if she just nodded her head, like she understood what I was saying, I would just ignore the kid.
Now I will admit, I shouldn't have said anything about an 8 year old asleep. Parents are on the most part jerks. They will complain about other kids but if anyone says anything about their kid they will jump up like mad hyenas and try to tear your face off. So I figured this isn't going well.
I decided to get security to talk to her. Maybe if she talks to them they will be more comfortable with her. They did take training to talk to people.
Of course bitch says to them "Some librarians say it's ok for kids to sleep depending on the circumstances". And she was loud. Luckily she didn't come looking for me, but I have a feeling she is one of those people who think everyone is full of shit and she is a victim because she doesn't do anything.
And she wrote a letter and an email saying that she and her child was threatened with expulsion (which I certainly didn't tell her) and that we threaten to throw her and her son out when there was someone else around playing loud music-which I'm surprised she heard since she had her headphones on (no one was playing loud music when I was on the floor. I will tell people to lower their music).
So today I get a talking to. *sigh*
You know, if I stop telling people to wake up, not to take our stuff into the bathroom, not to eat or drink, not to destroy our property, just because I'm afraid someone will get all bent out of shape and complain, then our library will become hobo city. It's bad enough the cops don't want to come in here, and the cops want to speak with the manager to tell him how to keep problems from happening in here, but I don't want to play favorites and only bother the hobos. Some hobos are nicer than some ties who walk in here.
But maybe I should just keep my eyes closed here.
in the world won't make go away. That and the library director has a spine that makes jello look sturdy. I've been petitioning for years to give the local cops a desk to do their paperwork and save us the phone calls.
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