Hrm. I scheduled a 10a, an 11a, on the desk at 1p, then have a 2p, and a 3p. I wonder exactly how much work I'll actually get done today.
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that IS work. Just not the work that moves you towards you objectives.
- DJF
I did sign up for the LGBTQA listserv and RSVP'ed for the faculty/staff happy hour, so there's that.
- Derrick
are they all meetings or reference consults? (both are work, just different kinds of work :) )
- ellbeecee
All meetings. I'm still working my way around different parts of the library and checking in with departments getting to know people and what they do, so that's part of it.
- Derrick
You're only on the desk for an hour shift? Wow! Ours are much longer (which I assumed was normal, but maybe not?)
- Soup in a TARDIS
meetings are work. often, they are the job. and, it sounds like these meetings do actually move you towards your objectives (getting to know where you work, so you can get done what you intend to)
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
(Soup, we also do one hour shifts here, and folks try hard to not do two hours in a row! it's odd...
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
One hour shifts, but 3-4 times a week, Soup.
- Derrick
(Oh wow, we do 2, 3, 4, and 8 hour shifts and under ideal circumstances we all work daily, but I suspect we're rather smaller than the staffs at your institutions)
- Soup in a TARDIS
We work about 5 hours/week -- except for the admins who are out there more like 10. I worked about 17 hours.week in shifts of 3-4 hours all through grad school, so this is odd to me. But I'm getting used to it... (Sundays are 3 hour shifts though...)
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Hey, it's 1:30. HOW GOES DESK DUTY, BUDDY?
- Soup in a TARDIS
I left early for another unscheduled, but necessary meeting.
- Derrick
(MfPOW it varied from branch to branch: mine did hour-shifts, and around morning/afternoon tea break split it into half-hours, which in retrospect maybe was a little silly but seemed fine at the time. Another branch did 1.5-hour shifts around those breaks. A year before I left, new management turned everything into 2-hour shifts, which I found tiring and which made it harder to swap if you had meetings. But it's probably partly what one's used to.)
- Deborah Fitchett
It's a big change for me from my job in New Orleans; I was on the desk 20 hours a week. But I also have a lot more responsibility now than I had before too.
- Derrick