Monday, the guy who orders children's materials for the branches (hereafter refered to as Gay Old Fart) came back from vacation. The Director told him that I was taking over his duties. Fine, I thought he would come yell at me. The director came down to warn me he might come, and recommended I seriously consider anything he suggested. Well, needless to say that annoyed me. The director agreed that since I am the CHILDREN'S LIBRARIAN it only makes sense for me, not someone without any children's background, to do the ordering. The director said that the branches have better collections than Main which is a crock of shit, so I am slightly annoyed at him. Anyway...
Gay Old Fart went to see the YA librarian and asked to see the library's collection development policy. He found one sentence that says children's ordering will be the responsibility of the children's librarian and extension services. He mutters under his breath, and leaves.
Next day, he comes to me to discuss how we're going to work this situation. Now, this guy is all about playing games and tries to intimidate people. He appeared to be under the impression that he would still be doing the ordering, only instead of him turning the order cards into tech services, I will do it. Um, sorry buddy but that's not the way it works. Of course, I just do my usual smile and nod then check later and I am right, I get to nix any of his orders I don't like.
He also mentions that I will not start ordering until the new year, and he's ready to put an order in. Well, I've already put in an order including the branches, since the Director told me to start right away. Again, I smile and nod.
Then, the man has the nerve to demand that I supply him with monthly copies of my acquisitions budget, friends budget, and other fund budgets. Hmm, yeah right, buddy.
So after that little "chat" I go talk to my boss, who is ripping mad that he is trying to pull one over on me. She talks to the Director, who tells me that I need to document any future conversations between us about this matter, especially anytime he tries to bully me or lie to me about how things work, and to tell the Director immediately.
Next, I go see my friend who is the head of Tech Services to fill her in on what is going on. She says they have already been instructed not to take any order from Gay Old Fart. So I ask her to humor him and take his order cards, and immediately give them to me. Then I will go through the cards and decide what I will order and what I will not. That way, when Gay Old Fart gets mad, he can bitch at me instead of taking it out on Tech Services, who is not involved in this in any way.
Phew, that was a lot of typing. And I'm not done yet!
Thursday the county had a luncheon for all the employees. So I got a free lunch, which was cool. Some OK food, awesome mashed potatoes, and chocolate mousse for dessert. The people who went the day before us had better food, but no chocolate mousse. :-p We also got a "gift" from the county...an umbrella with the county seal on it. Woo hoo! haha apparently this is the gift they gave out 4 or so years ago, so a lot of people now have two. Of course, I am always happy for another umbrella, since mine always go missing when it is raining. And it has a point on the end so I can defend myself from attackers.
And if that wasn't enough, Friday morning the Friends of the Library hosted a breakfast for all the staff. So instead of my usual coffee, I got to eat eggs, bacon, biscuits, muffins, danishes, and fruit in addition to coffee. Yum!
And next Friday we have our staff Christmas party, at which I will gorge myself again.
Why is it that holidays always revolve around food?
Oh well...
Rob is back from the field....it's freezing cold in Korea. His convoy got lost on the way to the site and he says no wonder Jessica Lynch got lost, her leaders were incompetent like his are. haha
Uhm...really not that much else going on here. I did some cleaning today. Took out the boxes of trash left over from October when I moved in...cleaned my bathroom. Then of course I took a quick computer break that ended up in a call from Hilary that lasted a while...so oops, didn't get any more cleaning done. That's OK. I don't want to spend my life cleaning. I am trying to get on track with the Flylady, but I am doing pitifully at keeping my sink clean. Eh, maybe after the holidays when things calm down some...
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