The Prospect of More Snow!

I am still reading "1634: The Bavarian Crisis", but tonight, there is the prospect of snow. At the very least, snow showers, in the offing. I am sort of hoping the snow will fall.

Of course, this brings back memories of the time I worked on a Saturday some years back in January or February. It was supposed to snow, and the library had instituted a step that saved calling around to different libraries to let them know we were closing due to snow. Five or six of the libraries were tasked with calling 3 or 4 others to let them know about the snow closing. This way, instead of the main branch doing all the work, it would be split up between a number of branches.

Around 10 AM, it started to snow. And snow. And snow, And Snow. Time passed, and there was almost no one but us in the building. Oh, there were a few die-hards that always came to surf the internet, but other than that, the building was dead. Still, until we get the notice to close, we are obligated to work. So the time passed slowly. We had lunch breaks, and finally at 2 PM, we got a call. One of the friends of the Librarian working that day was surprised to find her still working. It seems the rest of the library system had closed at noon.

Someone, and I am still not sure who, had forgotten to call us to tell us the libraries of the system were closing. If the librarian's friend hadn't attempted to call her at home, only to be told she was still at work, we wouldn't have known we were supposed to close!

Once we found out, of course, we closed up in about 20 minutes and went to dig out our cars and return home. Unfortunately for us, since the system closed at 12, we weren't going to be paid for the hours we had worked. :P But even that was taken care of eventually (by our most excellent boss, who found another way to compensate us). Even so, the thought of a snow day at work always brings back to mind that afternoon, and our complete shock at being forgotten. I know we are one of the smaller branches, but really! Here's to hoping nothing like that ever happens again!

I also think that was the same year or the same snowfall when the company that was supposed to plow our parking lot weren't able to come plow our lot for 4 days. We finally opened again on a Wednesday. It seems that their lot on the Island was snowed under and they were stuck, themselves, which seems awfully stupid for a company that was supposed to do PLOWING.

And that leads me to another stupid thing that is happening now. The library has cleaners that come in and clean, but downstairs in the bathroom, there was a dead cricket that lay there for well over a month without being taken care of. It got so bad that one of the librarians made a little tombstone for it, along with an epitaph, and stuck it to the wall with tape. And the cricket remained there for a few more weeks! What good is a cleaning company that doesn't really clean? What's the point? As far as I can tell, they empty the trashcans, put in new garbage bags, put toilet paper in the bathrooms, vaccum the carpets, and once every few months, they wipe down the circulation desk. Not a heck of a lot of cleaning. They don't dust or clean the bathrooms... what exactly do they really do that can be called "Cleaning"? Not a heck of a lot.