People can be such pigs

[frolijahfan]

I'd like to be able to chalk it up to the full moon, but I don't think so. Sometime late Thursday night or early Friday morning, someone decided to urinate all over the mirror, counter, walls, and everything else in the men's restroom, as well as totally plug the toilet. Our poor custodian thus got to spend the better part of later Friday morning cleaning up the mess. Cut to Saturday morning. Our children's librarian discovered that someone has tossed urine all over one of the difficult-to-see-into corners of the children's room, splashing walls, shelves, books, carpet, window ledge, window seat cushion--you get the picture. Not a pretty sight. She and her page spent a good chunk of Saturday cleaning up as much of that as they could. Meanwhile, on Friday the pad which we use to link our barcodes with our security tags decided to stop working for no discernible reason. I checked all the connections, restarted the computer, nada. Had to wait until the director got back on Monday to get authorization to call for repairs. Monday, a new wrinkle gets added to the ever-growing list of issues. About 12:30, the computers all went down. Totally kaput. We had to call in the guys from our regional system (which manages our automation system) to come in and deal with it (a Shawn and a Sean, no less!). About 3:00 we got the computers back. Tuesday morning we came in and about half of the computers were down again (mine *not* one of them, happily for me). So Sean had to come back to fix the problem--apparently we've got a server with issues, or something. And the repair guy came in for our programming pad and it decided to work for him (after three days of constant checking on our part and it *not* working). So I'm almost dreading coming to work this morning, and with reason, as it turns out. I walk into my department and one of my people tells me that it's happened again. What happened--there're so many to choose from. The same corner of the children's room got urinated even more thoroughly this time. The playback from our security cameras is not being at all helpful (they don't cover that part of the library at all). So we've called the police and the insurance adjuster and the security company to see about getting more cameras. Plus, the condenser or compressor in our HVAC is shot--a $10,000.00 bill, according to the director. I'm not about to ask what else could go wrong, because I don't want to know.
One of these days I'm going to post something happy or upbeat or positive about work, and y'all will drop dead from shock. (but I think you have nothing to worry about for the foreseeable future

Comments

[ex-lbilover.livejournal.com]

Holy crow! And I thought we had problems!! That's a run of bad luck, and no mistake. People can be pigs. I try never to go in the elevator since people have defecated in it from time to time. Blergh. I hope you can catch the culprit urinating in the children's room. That's just disgusting!!

*supportive librarian hugs*

yeah, I so wanted a "disgusted" mood but there was none to be found...

[frolijahfan.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've been seriously wondering if an evil witch placed a curse on us or something. We've (so far) managed to avoid feces in the elevator (although we have had both rain and snow--it's a loooong story), but we did have someone smear them all over our downstairs restroom and the walls of the lobby outside. :(
Everyone thinks that libraries are such quiet and calm places to work and often they are, but thoseother times...

[frodosweetstuff.livejournal.com]

ARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHH. OMG, someone must really hate your library. :((((( I so hope they'll catch whoever did that (and that there'll be no more computer problems, too).

*sympathetic hugs*

[frolijahfan.livejournal.com]

ARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHH, indeed. Unless they strike again, I doubt that we'll ever catch them, since the data from our security cameras is so totally unhelpful. :( I've no idea what we did to tick someobody off so badly, but the repetition cetainly does make it seem like something more pointed than just a random "prank."
On a more positive note, the computers haven't had any more problems since Tuesday. :)
(hugs back)

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

Man, I can't understand why anyone would do such a revolting thing. What's wrong with people? Are they psychotic, or just mean and nasty?

[frolijahfan.livejournal.com]

You and me both. I'v never understood the "joy" of malicious vandalism. Obviously, we managed to --well, I could say that we pissed someone off, but that would not only be the reverse of what happened, but also a terrible pun. Here's hoping that this will be the end of this, with no further incidents.

[aliensouldream.livejournal.com]

Aw, I'm really sorry. It would be nice if you had a joy where you didn't need to worry about all that.

[frolijahfan.livejournal.com]

The joys of dealing with the public. On the balancing side, we do have all the positive things that people do (we're very well provided with home-grown and -made goodies), but things like this... You just have to wonder why.