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This is going to do me no good other than as a vent and a chance to swear, so here goes.
For those of you good people who don't know, I work in a library. Have done for five years. I spend most of my time ordering stock and cataloguing it for ten libraries. It's a pretty cool job. Before this one, I spent a few years working in retail. The problem was I hated the public and still do. They're rude, ignorant, inconsiderate and most of the ones I had to deal had a body odour problem. The only reason I stayed in the industry for so long was because I was like Dante in Clerks. Eventually, I changed jobs before I got fired for hitting a customer.
Last week at work, I find out that because the local government who run the library have no spare money, they can't hire more frontline staff which means people like me have to go out and help as needed. Apparently, all we're going to do is shelve books and answer questions rather than deal with the public directly. This is the management covering their arses. Frontline staff are on two pay grades higher than me because they deal with the public. Personally, I see this starting off as an hour to cover someone's lunch, then turning into an afternoon, then a day of me doing someone else's job - without me being fucking paid for it.
I haven't been this angry about work in a long time. OK, I can look for another job but why should I have to change jobs when I was taken on to perform a specific role?
Goddamn, I'm pissed off.
For those of you good people who don't know, I work in a library. Have done for five years. I spend most of my time ordering stock and cataloguing it for ten libraries. It's a pretty cool job. Before this one, I spent a few years working in retail. The problem was I hated the public and still do. They're rude, ignorant, inconsiderate and most of the ones I had to deal had a body odour problem. The only reason I stayed in the industry for so long was because I was like Dante in Clerks. Eventually, I changed jobs before I got fired for hitting a customer.
Last week at work, I find out that because the local government who run the library have no spare money, they can't hire more frontline staff which means people like me have to go out and help as needed. Apparently, all we're going to do is shelve books and answer questions rather than deal with the public directly. This is the management covering their arses. Frontline staff are on two pay grades higher than me because they deal with the public. Personally, I see this starting off as an hour to cover someone's lunch, then turning into an afternoon, then a day of me doing someone else's job - without me being fucking paid for it.
I haven't been this angry about work in a long time. OK, I can look for another job but why should I have to change jobs when I was taken on to perform a specific role?
Goddamn, I'm pissed off.
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