mrs sleek is a librarian who teaches cataloguing. She once had a nightmare that woke me up. Someone had filed a jar of pickles under 400 (languages) instead of 700(fine arts).
In another nightmare, she found several books had been placed in the wrong shelf.
this stuff is important.
Oh come on…we all know the correct answer is:
Overnight Disc Jockeys
Yes, I did that for several years early in my career…
Hello all.
At my work its called night shift psychosis.
For a year in collage I worked night shift in the basement (no windows) of a hospital filing claims adjustments with a women who talked to her food.
“mmm…you look good tonight, I’m gonna eat you up”
O lost a lot of weight that year.
I need to say this, because Mr. Ujest has decided ( again) to change our Mental Garbage Supplier: **The Cable/Satellite installers. **
It takes *alot * to creep me out, but the guys who represent the cable and satellite installers are just plain creepy. So much so that they make Milton from Office Space look suave.
Anyone else get that vibe ( or is it just me?)
ohhh is that funny! I’m taking that home to my best friend…
Actually, I’ve worked many graveyard (3[sup]rd[/sup] shift) jobs in my life, and the upside is that the day people aren’t around.
Shirley, I don’t know what the current situation is, but 30 years ago, when cable was first coming to America, running TV cable was the preferred occupation of many bikers. I always imagined that developed because it meant they moved a lot, about the time they wore out their welcome.
Has anyone noticed yet that everyone is nuts? Really now. Every freaking person on the face of this earth is damaged goods in one way or another. We all just have this (comforting?) illusion that we alone are surrounded by higher-than-usual number of them.
Sorry, you’re not. I assure you that there are just as many of them surrounding each and every one of us.
Because they are us.
Priests and nuns. Child molestation issues aside, these vocations seem to draw the most socially backward people.
The Pope doesn’t think priests should marry. Obviously it’s been a long time since the pope dealt with parish priests.
About two-thirds of the people I worked with on drilling rigs. I still remember the drilling supervisor for a major oil company who would absentmindedly fondle his, er, package constantly whilst talking to someone; very distracting. Then there was the mud engineer on an offshore job who was as bald as Patrick Stewart, but insisted on wearing what looked like a dead muskrat on his head (not sure why he bothered, no one is exactly a slave to fashion in the field), and who only seemed to come out of his cabin for the occasional meal. And the roughnecks in Wyoming whose idea of fun was to drive down to the Union Pacific tracks and shoot up trainloads of new automobiles with automatic weapons. Well, maybe they only did that once or twice.
jsleek, I’ve had that happen to me, too. But usually I’d encounter the cataloger-carryover phenomenon on my drives home from work when I’d see call numbers in the licenses plates. “TX? Hmmm, that’s cooking. 641? Oh, that’s cooking (excuse me, cookery), too.” The only time it really scared me was when I could remember AACR2R rules and their numbers, “frequency notes for serials, oh, that’s 12.7B1.” scared the hell out of me that day!
I gotta agree with Bodypoet. I used to deliver papers myself. After I gave up my regular route, I was stupid enough to take up the DM’s offer to do sub routes. But, when you have a desperate DM, the money is good.
My favorite was Colon. Yes, Colon. And he made sure that everyone pronounced his name correctly, when you tried to call him Colin. He was a weird one. One of those quiet ones that you just knew was going to snap one day.
Yup, you have to have a Masters degree to be a librarian and make the big bucks. (that was extreme sarcasm, BTW. Librarians don’t make much moeny at all, and as grossly underpaid as they are, the non-librarians working in libraries make even less - I don’t know how they make enough money to eat, it’s scary! I’m working for a software vendor, so I’m making a decent salary, comparatively. Though somedays working for a company that sells things to the chronically underpaid and underfunded is depressing.)
I have mixed feelings about the Masters requirement, which I won’t get into here.
As for it being something that English & History majors tend to gravitate towards, that’s fairly accurate. I wonder if its because we were spending so much time in libraries already. One day we’re sitting there in a carrel thinking: “Hey, this place is nice. I wish I could stay here for the rest of my life!” 