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Stumpage Reports
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Sunday, June 22, 2003 :::
Tel Ref Memories
Sometimes we had cordless phones with headsets at the answering-the-phone-at-the-library job I used to have. From a customer service standpoint, they were nice. Everyone did not have PCs at their desks at that point so we could move around and access different databases and internet resources without having to print everything out. We could also break free from our mini-reference collection and go browse the grownup reference stacks.
From a fucking-around-at-work standpoint, the cordless phones were even better. Probably 75% of our calls were either: what are your hours, whats the phone number for a branch library, or we would have to transfer the calls somewhere else. So I would see how many questions I could answer while lying on the floor. I don't remember what the record was, I never really kept track. But I know I would answer 5 or 6 questions sometimes that way and 20 minutes or so would pass. Usually I would get hyper about something and have to get up off the floor myself. That really didn't count, since a patron didn't force me to get up.
That's not a bad job when you can do it laying on the floor.
Another Goddamn Moving Update
We got my furniture moved yesterday. Everything OK, no one injured, nothing broken. I still have a good carload of crap at my old place and need to clean the old homestead. This morning, the move transcended to a state of sheer absurdity. Its taken me a long time to move, and its been like "ha ha Tom sure has a lot of stuff." Something snapped this morning and it just got so fucking ridiculous, I've been moving for weeks and its assinine. I gotta finish this in the next couple days. Leaving for vacation on Friday, I can not wait.
::: posted by tom at 2:02 PM
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