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Monday, January 25, 2010

Stock management for beginners

An edict from on high dictated that we have a small satellite of Catty Library in the new clinic that's opened on Franconia Square. The library provides the books and we seem to have paid for the furniture, too, and the receptionists issue and return the books. T.Aldous and Julia did all the settings-up and then dumped it on Hettie to sort out at the last minute because the librarians who do this sort of development work were too busy doing something or other and I made it extremely plain that no project brief or service outline meant no killing myself to set everything up in the week available after they'd waffled on for over a year.

Hettie did a sterling job of it. To the profuse thanks of T.Aldous and Julia [irony alert!]. Imagine her delight, then, to discover that it's apparently her job to nip over and straighten the books on the shelves, retrieving the ones that have been left around the reception area and putting them all in the right order.

Her ecstacy knew no bounds when she walked in and was told by the bloke who runs the coffee stall:

"Buy a cup of coffee and you get a free book, love!"

8 comments:

Gadjo Dilo said...

Where did the bloke who runs the coffee stall come from? Straight off the street perhaps??

nursemyra said...

I want that job of putting the books in order! Us Virgos love doing that sort of thing

Pat said...

Yes I quite like the idea of tidying the books - languidly.
I'd like to have seen Hettie's face.

Berowne said...

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Thanks for your help. Yours, Berowne.

Kevin Musgrove said...

Gadjo: I hadn't thought of that: you're almost certainly right.

nursemyra: we used to have Virgos working for us. They loved the tidying-up but couldn't cope with the organisation.

Pat: we don't do languid. Desperate, stressed-out or homicidal, yes, but not languid.

Berowne: I will happily do so old chap!

The Topiary Cow said...

ha ha so the coffee guy is giving away the books?

not much to tidy soon then?

PS pretty sure it's some immutable law of nature that the higher up you are the less actual work you have to do...that's why (here anyway) the manager swings in around noon when the clerks have been grunting work since 8 am...best to accept the librarians won't ever do much unless they are busted down to assistant status...

Nota Bene said...

I think that's what caused the problems at Borders...

Kevin Musgrove said...

Ms. Cow: I'm trying to move up the food chain clandestinely. I've already started traipsing in after roll call.

Nota bene: I suspect you're right, sadly.