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The drawback to being in an office down in the basement of the library is that I'm near the loading dock door. The alarmed loading dock door. And on a regular basis, poeple try to get out via that door despite the large sign that says "ALARM WILL GO OFF" in large, friendly letters. And when the alarm does go off, it's the most screechy, high-pitched, loud, annoying thing EVAR.

My supervisor's key has the ability to shut the alarm off. He's at lunch.

I had to call upstairs and get them to send someone down to shut it off, and the person they sent didn't have the correct key, and had to go back upstairs and find the right key and come back down again and OH GOD SHUT THAT THING OFF RIGHT NOW!!!

They eventually suceeded, which proves the dictum that SILENCE is GOLDEN.

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Are you allowed to kneecap the idiots who go to a library but apparently don't know how to read?

Come to think of it, I haven't actually got issued with the sign reading "OUR PATRONS ARE NOT AN INCONVENIENCE. THEY ARE OUR REASON FOR BEING HERE" that everyone else has...

True, but they apparently didn't read the sign stating "Your IQ must be THIS HIGH to use this service," either. Of course, if my company did that, we'd lose 50 percent of our service calls. (The other 50 percent come from entitlement brats who do their best at being deliberately stupid, so I'd still spend the end of the day reflecting that Robert Howard, H. Beam Piper, and Hunter S. Thompson had the right idea.)

I have to say that I can deal with all of the stupidity displayed by patrons - which isn't as much as I fear, actually - what I *really* hate is the girls who consider their lily-white asses too good to touch the toilet seats here, because not a one of them knows how to aim, and apparently their mommmas didn't teach 'em to clean up after themselves, so it renders the stall unusable until Housekeeping (who don't get paid near enough to deal with the amount of this that goes on here) arrives, because nobody else wants to clean up after 'em, either. I mean ... some of 'em manage to hit the floor.

I never once saw a problem this bad at A&M, which has five times the students that TCU does.

Oh - in case you haven't seen it, the Monnig Museum here on campus is hosting Space Day (http://monnigmuseum.tcu.edu/events.htm) on Friday evening. They've got a former astronaut coming and a JPL scientist to talk about the Deep Impact mission, and providing telescopes to stargaze.

isn't that what toilet seat covers are for? Sheesh.

Oh God forbid these girls be FORCED to touch something as distasteful as a toilet seat cover. Admittedly, the library's restrooms aren't supplied with them. Some girls put toilet paper on the seat, and then don't clean it up themselves.

These are often the same girls who leave their bags or their laptops or their iPods on the small table in each bathroom and go into a stall out of sight of it. I am always sorely tempted to just scoop it up as I'm going by, because THEY'RE IDIOTS.

And I bet when their stuff gets stolen, they complain about the library's lack of security.

Oh god, I hate jerks who open alarmed doors despite LARGE SIGNS warning them. I wish they'd arm the doors with powerful electric shocks instead. Maybe they'd think twice before trying them, then.

I think that maybe they'd just stand there, hit the bar on the door repeatedly, and complain when they didn't get a pellet.

I'm always so fearful of a door being alarmed that I hesitate to open it if it says "fire exit" (not the ones with "Exit" signs, but the dark gray, forboding doors with FIRE EXIT across the middle). All the doors here in Scotland say "Fire Door -- Keep Shut" but that doesn't mean they're alarmed ... you're just not supposed to prop them open. That threw me at first.

When I was traveling in England and Scotland, I remember the doors saying Caution: this door is alarmed," which mostly makes me want to pat it and tell it that everything will be OK.

Haha:)

sounds like someone's door needs some supergluing in the doorknob.

...either that or a fun stinky present of a stink bomb,
although KEEP OUT tape works just as well :'D

Maybe I should find a biohazard sign. :)

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