We've received the forms for the annual survey of the health and safety of our libraries. It's straightforward and common sense stuff - is there an unimpeded fire exit? is the first aid box in plain view? is there a muzzle on the tiger? - which we fill in, send back to Health & Safety and the council's insurance premiums are kept down to the merely exorbitant.
Windscape Library has sent theirs back with no effort at completion. Instead, scrawled across the top in LARGE WRITING is the message:
Lola,
This is unnecessary. I shall speak to T.Aldous about it.
Lola is debating whether or not to send it back with a note saying: "Get this filled in, pronto!" She feels that this may be a little wishy-washy.
7 comments:
Would the recipient actually be Mr Pronto? Or Ms Pronto? In which case it should be a capital 'P' (proper name, and all that). Otherwise, what's wrong with it?
It should say: "Just fucking do it."
Take the muzzle off the tiger and send him in
Health and safety, eh? I originally read "Windscale Library" and the "Lola, this is unnecessary" scared me for a while.
Of course lesser mortrals would simply have photocopied last year's return and changed the dates....
I'm with Emu on this. There are many times, even now, when my colleagues feel thay have the right to debate every single aspect of a request that i want to bang the table and tell them to "just fucking get on with it!"...i don't though...
Affer: what emu said...
nursemyra: creative and functional, I like it
Gadjo: I'd stay scared
Macy: that ought to work but the buggers ducked it last year, too!
lizzie: me too, except I've been told not to do it again.
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