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A message to parents
If you're going to bring your kid with you to the library, pay attention to them. They don't know better than to push back the fronted books or rearrange the alphabetized books -- they may even think they're helping. You should know better, and it's your job as a parent to keep an eye on your kid and stop them. Instead, you usually treat the library like a day care center and do whatever while your kid makes a huge and avoidable mess that I or the other page have to clean up. And if this appeal to fair treatment fails to convince you, consider this: the amount of time unattended it takes for them to mess up the books is plenty for them to be kidnapped or murdered.
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GASP!
What!?! You actually expect parents to parent?!? But, but, what about thelibrariansfree baby-sitters the library provides???
/sarcasmDon't wanna; not gonna.Comment
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Soooooo....parents drop their kids off at the library when they're not using GameStore as a babysittter, then...?"For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
"The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
"Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
"There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
"Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
"Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
"Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - meComment
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I HATED fronting books when i worked at libraries. It never failed. As soon as I finished a shelf, THAT'S the shelf the next patron needed EVERY FRICKEN BOOK FROM!!!"All I've ever learned from love was how to shoot somebody who out-drew ya"Comment
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Quoth EricKei View Post
Yup, Yesterday we had a 6 year old wondering around alone at the library I do security at when one of the other guards walked up to her and asked where her parents were. She said "at the mall across the street, she told me to come here" The mom showed up 15mins later and paged her kid and didn't seem to understand or care why this was wrong to do. Seeing as this was the middle of the day in the middle of downtown and she could of easily been grabbedComment
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Somewhat
, re EricKei's new avatar:
Cool! I'm a fucking moron!
Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.
"I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost dailyComment
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And you can bet that if anything did happen to the kid, the idiot parent would be blaming the library."500 bucks, that's almost a million!"
~Curly from the 3 StoogesComment
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Personally, I've rarely had children here totally unattended... but I've frequently had them alone while the parent goes off to do something in another room of the library... or in the same room as the parent, but completely ignored while the parent looks at books or juggles yams or whatever the hell they think is more important than taking a few seconds to check on the kid now and then.Comment
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At GS, we have had parents try to leave kids completely unattended -- right next to those huge demo machines with tv's on top that can tip over...if you have, say, some idiots pulling on them or climbing on them...which of course no kid would ever do >_>
If we saw the parent try to leave them, we would stop them. Thus, naturally, the most popular time to leave them was when they were most likely to get kidnapped -- when we were incredibly busy. We almost never had anyone get away with leaving kids, and (thankfully) never had any being whisked away >_>
IPF: You can thank whomever linked me to Queen of Wands for that. A character called the Grammar Nazi was wearing that tshirt, and I just couldn't resist avatar-izing it ^_^
(might as well update the ole sig, too, while I'm at it...)Last edited by EricKei; 09-02-2009, 11:54 PM."For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
"The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
"Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
"There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
"Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
"Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
"Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - meComment
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Queen of Wands FTW. I never did convince the local bookstore back home to put up the "READ" poster with Kestrel reading porn.
Thankfully I can't recall anyone ever letting the kid alone in any of my jobs, though that may be do to simple location (the first two jobs were in the same building by the highway, one store taking over for the other when the latter went bankrupt) or service (I doubt the Home Depot is going to be used as a daycare any time soon; then again, I work outside and have no idea what's going on within its halls of doom... doom.. DOOM).
(I like saying doom)
(DOOM)"IT stands away, interrupting himself from the incessant hammering of the kittens…"Comment
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When I worked at Calendar club during the christmas season we had a kiosk right in front of the kids enclosed play area we had a few wonderful mothers drop their 3 year olds off tell them to stay there or see us if they had a problem. They were always met by mall security and rather upset that they got a 'talking' to.It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care. -Office spaceComment
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