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[darchildre]

Dear library patron,

I am working at this desk. You can clearly see this. I have just checked two people out, so you must know that I'm able to do that at this desk, which is the desk where I am working. You, however, are standing stubbornly at the desk where no one is working and indeed no one is, except you and the self-checkout machine (which explains why I didn't realize at first that you were waiting). But you are not there to use the self-checkout machine, oh no. You are standing there, waiting for me to leave the desk that I am working at, which is the desk where I work, and come to the other desk, where I do not work, to check you out.

I honestly do not understand that behavior. Why would you do that?

Comments

[nan]

Ugh! Some people are massive jerkoffs. :|

[silveradept]

This, I think, is why our system is over-reacting and reducing my new branch down to precisely one desk, so that there's always someone there to check people out and they don't wait at another desk wondering where the people are.

Still, person who waits at a desk when there is clearly someone else there that can help you, you suck.

[willidan]

Because you are there to serve them. You must cater to their every whim and travel to their location in order to serve them. Silly child. You should know that.

What I love most is when people will bypass me at the reference desk to walk to the circ. desk and ask a student (!) for help with a research question. But maybe we should relabel our ref desk sign to read Ask Me! On the other hand, they have no problem asking me what time the library closes.