I started writing this out and it was getting a little long winded for my taste so here I go again.
I started working at a smallish public library as a library assistant in late September. Up until today it has been one of my favorite jobs I’ve ever had. Over that past month or so I’ve been noticing that my supervisor has been sending out weirdly specific and passive aggressive emails to everyone who works the circ desk, reminding us on policy and procedures. I didn’t think much of it. Figured I was doing my job well enough. Within the first hour of being clocked in I come to find out that my supervisor is “really sad” that I wasn’t trained in as well as everyone else. Why wasn’t I trained in as well as everyone else? Because I am a man and they weren’t comfortable being one on one with me. And while I can be empathetic to that, everyone deserves to feel comfortable at work I keep coming back to the same question. Why did YOU hire me then? If this was possibly going to be a problem, why even take that risk?
I wish that was the only thing. Because I’ve dealt with that before working as a paraprofessional in a school and a DSP at both group homes and day programs. But then I found out that I am being blamed for inadvertently causing a incident with a patron a few weekends ago. Long story short we only have two meeting rooms that can only be used if you make a reservation. We had an older patron come in wanting to use the meeting rooms. They were told our policy, they didn’t like being told no. Incident happens, they send an email to the mayor’s office demanding our circ supervisor be fired. In the email the patron says that a guy lets them use our third meeting room every Saturday. (The email is actually kinda funny in retrospect.) But the two issues with that statement are A) We only have two meeting rooms and B) I don’t work weekends. Never have. I don’t even meet the description of the guy that supposedly let this patron use the room in the past. Most of us think that this patron is confusing us with another nearby library. Everyone actually thinks that except my supervisor who pulled my coworker off the desk to repeatedly ask them if they thought that I did it. Like, what the heck? They even checked our cameras and I don’t pop up letting someone in the meeting rooms.
I have an inkling as to what might happen next. But I honestly don’t give two shits anymore. With spring coming I will make way more money at my other job bartending at a brewery and those people actually respect me.