Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Oddly Depressing Job

So, I help out a lot in my school's library. What can I say? I love it there.. Tons of books, not a lot of annoyances, and air conditioning. Perfect environment! Great place to be, until as of lately. It's very depressing actually. Today, the librarian and myself started clearing out and getting rid of books. Long story short, they're closing the school down, consolidation. Just some random job, that I thought would be meaningless turned out to be more depressing than anything though, weirdly enough. I hate seeing the library so empty and without books. We're not even halfway done and I could estimate that we've boxed up a good five to seven hundred books just to be shipped off to nowhere... Can't wait to get this done, feels awful..

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Just one of those jobs that you would not exactly think to be depressing that turned out to be. What about you guys, experiences that you thought wouldn't be depressing that turned out to be?

22 comments:

  1. So are you being laid off after you clean it out?

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  2. My school recently got rid of it's library, in favour of a 150+ computer suite.

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  3. No Timmy, I'm just more of a student aid. Thankfully, but most of the teachers are being laid off.

    Vince, that's awful. Trading good ole paper literature for technology.. I can't believe they would do that. >_<!

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  4. Where are they being shipped off too? Surely can't be just getting thrown out?

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  5. I hope they are not just dumping the books! That would be a waste

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  6. Woaah man. That's alot of books, hope they don't just throw 'em out

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  7. They're being shipped to "Storage"... And the really new recently bought ones go to our new school.

    To me, it's a sad process because I know that the books will probably never be used again. Left to just rot in a warehouse if they even go to one...

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  8. I know it seems bad, but even just having a job is a good thing.

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  9. being shipped to storage? might as well just throw em away cause their arent coming back

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  10. Shipped off to nowhere? What a waste!

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  11. @Seamuse: It's possible they're going to a book repository. I know of one where I live and the public can go and pick up books for free. So if they are, they won't go to waste; they'll go to people who really want them.

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  12. I hope they pay you well (do they?)

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  13. well on the good side, you are not burning them

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  14. Never mind, you will get a better job!

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  15. That sucks man. One time I took a job where I was told I would be moving chicken pens. I found out when I got there that we were actually forcibly removing thousands of old laying hens from their cages and chucking them in an incinerator.

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  16. got hired for a job with specific requests. 3 weeks later Im not even doing what they hired me for. its depressing that i cant/wont quit because its my first job, need some rep for my second.

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  17. Reading this blog was a lot more of a bore than I thought it would be... just kidding.

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  18. I'm so glad I have a job I enjoy. I worked a convenience store for about a year. Shit sucked. My boss was over my shoulder 24/7.

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  19. Take a few books and hollow them out and hide your secrets there.

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  20. I'm too much an optimist to find anything depressing.

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  21. You'll find a good job, don't worry.

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