What I do all day...

Here's a minute by minute rundown of what I do at work on an average day, for those of you who can stand it.



12:58- Blog.
12:59- Someone needs to use the business phone to call for a ride.
1:00- Send book back to Tech Services for a new cover
1:01- Tell patron we don't have a papercutter (go to kinkos)
1:02- Pretend to listen while LA tells me about planting peas.
1:03-1:06- Shelve DVDs
1:07- Tell LA to go to lunch. Check email (nothing, sigh)
1:08-1:09- Scratched itchy arm, nothing.
1:10-1:12- Check out DVD's and look up crappy author for patron.
1:13- Tell yet another patron we don't have a papercutter.
1:14-1:16- Ate wheat thins. Checked husbands blog (nothing, sigh)
1:17- Watched patron try to walk through glass before realizing it wasn't a door.
1:18- Nothing
1:19- Told patron to have a good day as she was leaving.
1:20-1:25- Selected books from catalog for next order.
1:25- Tell patron we do not have High School Musical.
1:25- Go back to book ordering
1:25- Interuppted by same patron asking where kids area is (Answer:right behind you)
1:26- Go back to book ordering
1:27- Check in DVD
1:27- Go back to book ordering
1:28- Take phone call from patron who thinks someone might have called her but can't remember anything about the message.
1:30- Go back to book ordering
1:34- Check out DVD's to Patron with last name of Smutz (awesome)
1:35- Show someone how to use copier
1:37- Explain to someone where Biographies are
1:40- Send fax for patron
1:41- Go back to book ordering
1:42- Remind patron I don't know everything there is to know about Microsoft Word
1:43- Read dirty joke given to me by patron.
1:44- Check out books to patrons (Yes! Books!)
1:45- Go back to book ordering
1:48- Compliment patron on dirty jokes.
1:48- Go back to book ordering
1:55- Interuppted to listen to racist joke by patron (yes, same joke patron).
2:oo-2:30- Lunch break, read a book and eat peanuts
2:30-2:35- Check out books
2:35-2:43- Answer calls about when the library closes while checking out books while being interupted several times, check out DVD's
2:44- Go back to book order
2:48- Look up Raymond Burr in Wikipedia (just cause I wanted to) while being interupted by phone calls.
3:00- Interrupt book order to try and convince a caller that learning the Dvorak keyboard was pointless.
3:07- Tell patron that cell phones can only be used outside, smile while patron glares at me.
3:08- Go back to book order
3:11- Interuppted to argue with patron about fines. That patron intruppted by patron who wants to check out books, that patron interuppted by LA who has question to ask me.
3:14- Book order
3:20- Interrupted by patrons who have no idea why they have to pay fines.
3:24- Book order
3:26- Inturrupted to explain to patron where to find poetry section
3:27- book order
3:28- Interuppted again to show patron where to find poetry section since no one can follow simple directions.
3:29- Book order
3:30-3:55 Argue about fines, suggest DVD's, get phone numbers to companies so that people can complain, show people how to log into the computers.
3:56- Book order
3:57-4:19- Do money report, search for DVD, fix printer
4:20- Screw book order, it's never getting done anyway, mess around on the internet.
4:45- Explain to patrons we are closing and the computers automatically shut down just like the pop up message says and no we didn't purpsely kick you off the computer.
4:50- Remind people looking at DVD's that the library closes at 5 and we will not be checking out materials to them after 5.
4:58- Tell patrons who came in at 4:55 that they are not able to log into the computers because we're closing in two minutes.
5:00 Remind patrons that are asking where certain books are that we are closed and cannot look up books for them, or check out DVD's, or get them on a computer. Tell them to go to Genesee Valley because they are open later and rush them out the door.
5:10- Finally leave the building.

So yeah, that's why I get the big bucks.