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Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Antivehicular posted:

I recall a very old (and non-SA) message board thread from an adult-video-store clerk who cited the VHS version of this problem as the worst part of her job. Seems legit.

True Porn Clerk Stories, on improvisation.ws. The site is long gone but the Wayback Machine provides at least the first page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20051215081613/http://www.improvisation.ws/mb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4475

It's not quite a librarian experience but you will probably recognize some common themes.

After the site went down the author of the thread made a book True Porn Clerk Stories that is currently available on Amazon.

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Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



value-brand cereal posted:

After reading about creeps in this thread...

[Bolding mine] IT WOULD DESTROY IT. 25 MILLION DOLLERS. DESTROYED. LIBRARY. BUILDING: GONE because the put some opaque lining on the floor

This is not friendly to anyone wearing dresses, much less niqabs and other such clothing. You can see the slats in the top right of this image:



And if you zoom in on this image:


You can absolutely see up skirts. Not much may be visible, but that's not the point at all of peeping toms and other creeps. Plus, creeps could just say 'oh I was looking at books on the top shelf, that's all, I didn't mean to follow the person above me constantly around, staring! tee hee!]

That’s dumb as hell in anything that isn’t a warehouse, good to see the architect of the Berlin airport is still getting a paycheck!

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Oh my gently caress they actually built it??? I misread and thought this was a concept package.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



shame on an IGA posted:

Oh my loving god the ventilation plan is literally "let's make the entire building full of dry paper a giant chimney flue"



https://transsolar.com/projects/cornell-fine-arts-library

:stonk:

lmao

This is amazing.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Phoenix librarians, this one’s for you:

https://mobile.twitter.com/slittletree/status/1280540852578729984

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



JacquelineDempsey posted:

and a circular saw blade (WTF).

“Hmm, this is long and skinny, and the slot is long and skinny, I wonder if it would fit...”

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



JacquelineDempsey posted:

Never put this together but... circulation materials. Circular saw blade. Sure, why not?

Alternately, someone who had one of those razor blade disposal slots in their bathroom medicine cabinet at home and thought this was just a bigger version for bigger blades.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



JacquelineDempsey posted:

Ha! As a kid I used to live in an old house with one of those. After i asked mom what it was and she told me, naturally my next question was "well, where do they go?"
"Just between the walls of the house, I guess."
"So, like, if you had to fix the house by tearing the wall open, thered just be all these razor blades?"
"I guess so, honey"

This disturbed yet intrigued me. I was (still am) fascinated by things like Egyptian tombs, secret rooms with hidden treasure --- hell, we were on vacation when Geraldo did that live opening of Al Capone's vault, and I demanded to stay in the motel room to watch it instead of going to the pool, lol.

So I started slipping little drawings and notes into the slot, for future contractors/archeologists to find. One day a plumber is gonna find a pile of razor blades and some goofy pictures of dragons and notes saying "be careful!" and "hello from 1982" and such.

:3:

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



My Lovely Horse posted:

They took all the boring admin work off my desk and gave it to someone else so I would be able to devote more time to making videos and doing design stuff and such. I'm supposed to make a list of expensive A/V equipment I need and it is my understanding this will be purchased and handed over to me more or less without question.

I know everyone gets impostor syndrome but at some point someone's gonna catch on that I really am in no way qualified

You'll almost certainly learn, and yeah after a year you'll go back and cringe at your first one but relax. You'll be fine!

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007




I have to admit I had only ever known the game as "bean bag toss" growing up in the South but I knew about the other meaning of the word so when my first job said the annual picnic would have a "cornhole tournament" I had to privately ask my office mate what the hell was going on.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007




Right on, John.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Captain Invictus posted:

a box of "revenge of the librarians" books

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Leperflesh posted:

and all of them remember your last few so you can't keep using them

Sure you can. There is almost never a minimum time enforced between password changes, so if you want to keep using the same one but it remembers the last six then just change your password seven times in a row and make the last one the one you started with. Now this kind of supposes that you have a good strong password and are doing everything else right but just have an asinine password expiration policy, so it may be a terrible idea depending on the circumstances.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Waffle! posted:

Cats. They watch, and they judge. Few are worthy.

That's why they aren't common service animals.

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Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



At this point you can safely assume that any municipal recycling program in the US is just sending everything that isn't scrap copper straight to the landfill.

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