What a wonderful idea for caregivers of young children at this public library:

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10. Let me make myself clear here:

The other librarian and myself responding hold terminal graduate degrees. Both of us have been around for a very long time in libraries.
We are very well of the challenges facing public perceptions of our jobs.

We do NOT, nor have we ever----- read that again--- "check out and shelve books."

We are all about patron services- ALL of us go above and beyond every single minute of every single day.

Are we happy about Covid tests and passing out lunches? FUCK NO- we are busy. I haven't had a lunch at work since August of last year. I come home so damned tired that I can't even get my resume updated.

There are MANY "public servants paid by tax money." What others do you want to be cheerful about doing their jobs, helping patrons find materials, assisting with computers (oh, and let me tell you- the ones that are watching porn and jerking off are the MOST fun), looking at books that people have destroyed by spilling crap on them, or having their cats hock hairballs on them--- making sure people that are looking for "a good mystery" feel safe in all of the above....

AND now? People like you want us to be perky about having to clean cribs?

Take a good look at what you wrote....your attitude is the reason people are quitting jobs in droves. I am not a babysitter- regardless of anyone else's position in life.