Potentially it was me
Anyone remember the twunt who used to wander round the library saying "can I remind you all that this is a SILENT study area?" - surely you must. Every sixth form library has one.

Well, I was that twunt. For a time anyway.

Having recently found myself in need for a job quite urgently, I went for and took a role which I was led to believe was IT related, but turned out to be more of a librarian's lackey. Oh well, it was money. The manager had a thing for ensuring that the silent study zones remained absolutely silent, so we all had to go on Sshhh duty all day, every day. It was crap. The thing about 16-18 year olds is that they're not that interested in working quietly. When they're working they're multi tasking, eating, chatting with friends or on the phone. When they're not working they're either playing the Helicopter game (awesome fun, even now) or looking at porn (also awesome fun, but in public? Really?). And I went round badgering them all to stop - what a cnut!

To cut a long story short, it was shit. I hated doing it, and was pretty roundly hated in return. I may well have been considered an arch-nemesis for some tiny portion of somebody's day. Maybe not. Anyway, time moved on as it invariably does and a better job came up. I took it. I feel much better now, calmer, as if I am doing something to help people rather than get in their way.

But you know what? I'm not sorry. You were noisy bastards.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Wed 5 May 2010, 19:13, 2 replies)

You will never be tony blair
so clicks from me
( The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Wed 5 May 2010, 19:24, closed)

Meh
I had a part time job in a library and we never bothered to tell people to be quiet because of the large amount of small screaming children in there (why bring your child into a library if it's screaming, incidentally?!). However I did nearly pour water over some boys who were messing about once, I think that was the highlight of my entire job.
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Wed 5 May 2010, 19:50, closed)