Random Stuff IX: Rogue Admins

[The Honor Spren she/her]

So here I was, feeling all accomplished that I had eaten some chicken. I believed ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* anything was possible *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ and naturally, I decided to get a bowl of cereal for dessert. I thought, "oh, I'll just let it soak in the milk for a little bit. It'll be fine." But it turns out that honey bunches of oats has little crunchy bits that are even crunchier than I realized. After causing myself pain and coming to the conclusion that my attempts were futile, I cried a bit, gave the bowl to my mom, and went upstairs to take my pain medication. 

Oh, and congratulations, Kaymyth.

[+Slowswift]

Just now, The Honor Spren said:

So here I was, feeling all accomplished that I had eaten some chicken. I believed ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* anything was possible *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ and naturally, I decided to get a bowl of cereal for dessert. I thought, "oh, I'll just let it soak in the milk for a little bit. It'll be fine." But it turns out that honey bunches of oats has little crunchy bits that are even crunchier than I realized. After causing myself pain and coming to the conclusion that my attempts were futile, I cried a bit, gave the bowl to my mom, and went upstairs to take my pain medication. 

Oh, and congratulations, Kaymyth.

Honey Bunches of Oats are delicious. 

Unfortunately, they're also great for nearly breaking your teeth.  

Either way, hope you feel better soon!  

[Sunbird she/her]

It's that time of the semester...

I'm not even kidding. The good news? If I get a zero on the paper, I'll still have to score under 40% on the final exam in order to fail the class. (Since I've averaged about 82% on previous tests in this class, I seriously doubt I'll do that badly.)

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I know it's part of my job. I know it doesn't usually take much time. I know it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. I know the people who ask do it because they need help.

So why do I hate holding a patron's hand while they work the copier or print a document or try access their email so much?  

[Orlion Blight he/him]

57 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

I know it's part of my job. I know it doesn't usually take much time. I know it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. I know the people who ask do it because they need help.

So why do I hate holding a patron's hand while they work the copier or print a document or try access their email so much?  

Because you know it intellectually, you do not feel it empathetically.

You must let go of the intellect and give in to the heart to achieve transcendence, my child. 

Or, in other words, you must struggle against the "oh, pugs, not this again!"

[Kaymyth she/her]

1 hour ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

I know it's part of my job. I know it doesn't usually take much time. I know it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. I know the people who ask do it because they need help.

So why do I hate holding a patron's hand while they work the copier or print a document or try access their email so much?  

Because you resent having to expend your precious introvert spoons on people who are too dim to handle basic technology.

[Orlion Blight he/him]

 

[Mestiv he/him]

1 hour ago, Kaymyth said:

Because you resent having to expend your precious introvert spoons on people who are too dim to handle basic technology.

I think often its not about the intellectual capabilities of those people. They just didn't have any chance or need to learn it before. Like many people in USA don't know how to drive cars with manual transmission, while its considered a basic driving skill here in Europe. That doesn't mean US drivers are dim or anything, right? They just didn't have a chance or need to learn it. 

[marsoupial they/them]

2 hours ago, Orlion Determined said:

Because you know it intellectually, you do not feel it empathetically.

You must let go of the intellect and give in to the heart to achieve transcendence, my child. 

Or, in other words, you must struggle against the "oh, pugs, not this again!"

I'm making "pugs" a curse now on the Shard. 

Your problem is real, @TwiLyghtSansSparkles; you're there to assist, not do whatever it is for the patron.

I mean, the copier and printer thing is valid, people have problems with those (they're evil, fickle pieces of machinery), but if you have an email, you should be able to access it without someone else's help.

Edited December 9, 2016 by bleeder

[Kaymyth she/her]

6 minutes ago, Mestiv said:

I think often its not about the intellectual capabilities of those people. They just didn't have any chance or need to learn it before. Like many people in USA don't know how to drive cars with manual transmission, while its considered a basic driving skill here in Europe. That doesn't mean US drivers are dim or anything, right? They just didn't have a chance or need to learn it. 

I think I must know too many librarians.  I hear a lot of stories like this, and it's often the same people over and over.  If they're just now learning, that's fine, but if they're asking for the same help with the same tasks week after week...

But you're quite right. I shouldn't assume that all of them fall into the second group.

(Though I do consider it a point of personal shame that I still haven't conquered driving a manual transmission.)

[Chaos he/him]

Facebook just gave me a targeted ad on my feed. Usually I hate crap like that, but then it said "Best Fantasy Since Brandon Sanderson."

Okay Facebook, if you at least do that then that's at least appropriate targeting.

Unfortunately they were comparing the book to Mistborn, and it felt urbany like the setting of Luthadel with girls with knives. Sure, I guess, but that's kind of the least important thing that's cool about Mistborn. I don't know, I like my fantasy book pitches to not sound like generic fantasy stuff. Dark Lord won? Okay I'm in. Random crap about someone and a sorcerer... meh. 

Still though, Facebook, A+ for trying!

[Mestiv he/him]

 

@Kaymyth it's quite hard to learn a different system when you have years of experience with the other. I remember I used to press the break every time I'd normally press clutch when I got to drive a car with automatic

[marsoupial they/them]

5 minutes ago, Kaymyth said:

I think I must know too many librarians.  I hear a lot of stories like this, and it's often the same people over and over.  If they're just now learning, that's fine, but if they're asking for the same help with the same tasks week after week...

But you're quite right. I shouldn't assume that all of them fall into the second group.

(Though I do consider it a point of personal shame that I still haven't conquered driving a manual transmission.)

I wanna learn how to drive a manual (after I learn how to drive an auto).

Hey, guys, I want to get one of the Mistborn charm necklaces for Christmas. Which metal should I get? I can't decide.

[Mestiv he/him]

4 minutes ago, bleeder said:

I wanna learn how to drive a manual (after I learn how to drive an auto).

Why not manual before auto? it's much easier to learn auto as the second one I think. 

[ThirdGen]

3 hours ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

I know it's part of my job. I know it doesn't usually take much time. I know it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. I know the people who ask do it because they need help.

So why do I hate holding a patron's hand while they work the copier or print a document or try access their email so much?  

I think it's because they feel like the same person over and over again.  And frustration would totally be appropriate if you had to keep showing the same person the same basic thing.

[Orlion Blight he/him]

Automatic and manual transmission are both easy to learn

I drive a manual because it's much funner. I can switch to automatic with minimal adaptation as well. The only muscle memory that interferes is that I tend to try to reach for the stick shift.

@bleeder Learn whatever helps you pass your driver's license test. I actually used my driver instructor's car because that's the one I used to practice the parallel parking portion of the test and I did not want to mess that up and have to spend more money to take it a second time. Manual is very easy to learn nowadays, the more recent cars are much more forgiving than they were in the past.

[+Slowswift]

14 minutes ago, bleeder said:

I wanna learn how to drive a manual (after I learn how to drive an auto).

Hey, guys, I want to get one of the Mistborn charm necklaces for Christmas. Which metal should I get? I can't decide.

Yes.

I dunno; I actually've been thinking about one myself. For me, personally, I'd go for gold or tin. Based off of what Misting I'd want to be is how I chose.  

[Zathoth]

So the obvious answer is Zinc.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

19 minutes ago, Kaymyth said:

I think I must know too many librarians.  I hear a lot of stories like this, and it's often the same people over and over.  If they're just now learning, that's fine, but if they're asking for the same help with the same tasks week after week...

But you're quite right. I shouldn't assume that all of them fall into the second group.

(Though I do consider it a point of personal shame that I still haven't conquered driving a manual transmission.)

Yeah, there are some of those people. Today we got a patron who always comes into the library in a huge rush, wanting us to log onto her email from our desk computers and print things for her. And there's one librarian who does, but it's very much against policy. So she tried to basically wear me down--acting like she didn't know how to log on (and I know she does, I've shown her before) saying "There's one lady who does it for me--I think she's the supervisor" (she's not)--and finally left when I wouldn't do it for her. Those people are awful, but it's the ones who are genuinely learning that I feel bad for being annoyed at. 

[Kaymyth she/her]

20 minutes ago, Mestiv said:

 

@Kaymyth it's quite hard to learn a different system when you have years of experience with the other. I remember I used to press the break every time I'd normally press clutch when I got to drive a car with automatic

Yeah, but my husband drives a manual.  Being unable to drive his car is inconvenient, and I really have no excuse aside from lethargy.  And the fact that every time he offers it's in a place with actual traffic and I'd be too freaked out about possibly stalling the car in front of people who are trying to Get Somewhere to really relax and focus on learning.

What I really need is to find a huge, empty parking lot to practice in until I've got the feel of it down into my muscle memory.

1 minute ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Yeah, there are some of those people. Today we got a patron who always comes into the library in a huge rush, wanting us to log onto her email from our desk computers and print things for her. And there's one librarian who does, but it's very much against policy. So she tried to basically wear me down--acting like she didn't know how to log on (and I know she does, I've shown her before) saying "There's one lady who does it for me--I think she's the supervisor" (she's not)--and finally left when I wouldn't do it for her. Those people are awful, but it's the ones who are genuinely learning that I feel bad for being annoyed at. 

Urgh.  It's that whole feigned helplessness that would drive me completely 'round the bend.  Pretending to be clueless just so someone else will do the work for you is something that aggravates me to an irrational degree.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

1 minute ago, Kaymyth said:

Yeah, but my husband drives a manual.  Being unable to drive his car is inconvenient, and I really have no excuse aside from lethargy.  And the fact that every time he offers it's in a place with actual traffic and I'd be too freaked out about possibly stalling the car in front of people who are trying to Get Somewhere to really relax and focus on learning.

What I really need is to find a huge, empty parking lot to practice in until I've got the feel of it down into my muscle memory.

Urgh.  It's that whole feigned helplessness that would drive me completely 'round the bend.  Pretending to be clueless just so someone else will do the work for you is something that aggravates me to an irrational degree.

Same here. I just kept refusing until she tossed off a sarcastic "Thanks for the help" on her way out. 

Though I did derive pleasure from telling her that our supervisor was a young man while the librarian who helped her was not.

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

Have you watched ghostbusters (2016) @TwiLyghtSansSparkles? Do u get people like the dude chrisnhemsworth was playing as in ur library?

 

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

1 minute ago, Mesa the Ookla said:

Have you watched ghostbusters (2016) @TwiLyghtSansSparkles? Do u get people like the dude chrisnhemsworth was playing as in ur library?

 

Don't know, haven't seen it.  I have gotten to the point, though, where I'll watch to see how a patron clicks the mouse. If they click the wheel instead of the left side, I'll know it's going to be a looonnnng couple of minutes. 

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

2 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Don't know, haven't seen it.  I have gotten to the point, though, where I'll watch to see how a patron clicks the mouse. If they click the wheel instead of the left side, I'll know it's going to be a looonnnng couple of minutes.

Haha lol

[Kaymyth she/her]

You know what's amusing?  Listening to a vegetarian trying to convince an omnivore that gizzards are delicious.