And there was light...

[jadesfire]

...so now I'm hoping the electrical engineers will forgive me. Yes, we are very grateful that readers will no longer be bumping into bookcases and staff will no longer get eyestrain from looking at labels in the dark. Maybe the idea was to string it out for so long that, by the time they did manage to change the bulb, we'd be so completely and pathetically grateful after having been in the dark for so long that we'd offer them chocolates. Sorry, lads, no eating in the reading room.

Now all we have to do is teach readers about volume control ("did your mother never tell you that you shouldn't shout in a library?") and how to ask questions ("yes, surprisingly, since I work here, I do know where the stairs are. I can even point you in the direction of the toilets and the books, if you ask really nicely.") *sigh*

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[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm only half joking. To switch the heating and air systems over with the seasons, all you have to do is flip open the thermostat cover and press the button marked "system." Easy, eh? Last autumn, they ran out and purchased electric heaters on a cold Sunday morning because they couldn't figure out how to do it.

Instructions taped on the wall over the thermostat? "Nah, we don't need no stinkin' instructions."

Don't even get me started on the time all the lights had burned out in the dining hall and they insisted I call a licensed electrician to replace them. I've never seen people so utterly helpless in my entire life.

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I'm convinced that intelligence and common sense are inversely proportional. It's so reassuring that ours isn't the only workplace that things like this happen to...