砂漠のJeffire

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Monday, October 01, 2007

seriously, i know this is not the right time to blog. but i think it's better that i get this over and done with before i embark on another late night of work.

it's deja vu again for me as i ponder another resignation. i seriously think that the management of this organisation acroynmed NLB is extremely naive and off the ground. not only that, i also think that the job no longer offers any learning opportunity because the attitude from the management that it is a "temp" job. i think they should open their eyes and see that my appointment letter says that my job is "Part-Time Assistant Library Officer".

anyway, if any of you lives near toa payoh, wants a permanent part-time job that offers $7.50 on weekends, contact me. i am willing to give up my place to you because there are tons of other things i ought to do rather than to be patient to people who are screaming at me because they "don't think they borrowed the books and therefore shouldn't be liable for the 15cent fine". anyway the successor won't have to deal with those since the debacle will be over these few weeks, plus there will be updated policies that make your job easier and friendlier.

apart from describing some perils from my job, today the library network went down and the library was probably 90% disabled as many of the checking, billing, updating functions were unusable. some patron said that the library doesn't have a contingency plan. he was absolutely right, the best the management could do was to give 2 instructions:

a. stop all billing and updating transactions
b. issue manual loans

and this had to happen in the midst of the mass fine debacle that i think virtually that 2hrs i were most engaged in

a. trying to explain that our network is down, we cannot do anything
b. trying to say sorry for something that is not my fault.

what the hell.

Acknowledged my existence at
1:05 AM