How to be creatively condescending to coworkers when you work in a library.
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You never forget the day you first learn how a shelf works. There's a good chance whoever wrote the original note will spend a lot of their post-library career stocking items onto shelves.

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  • Faith | 12/08/2011 flag  |

    I'm so sorry that I offended your sensibilities by posting a snarky comment on a site dedicated to posting snark. I agree that I might have come across as humorless, but the denseness seems to be yours, as I have already explained to you that I understood the librarian's sign/label/intent, yet you continue to insist that I don't.

    I'm done corresponding with you. Now I KNOW I've lost my sense of humor.

  • C's | 12/08/2011 flag  |

    Oh look! A couple of cunts, cunting it up in the comments.

  • katie the librarian | 12/08/2011 flag  |

    No, I'm not the original condescending librarian. Are you the person who doesn't know how a shelf works?

    The picture is intended to be a joke and you come across as dense and humorless in your niggling criticism. It's a snarky message printed on a label maker, not a doctoral dissertation.

  • Faith | 12/08/2011 flag  |

    Kate: Thanks for the translation. I didn't say I couldn't understand it; rather, I was remarking about the librarian's PUNCTUATION and CAPITALIZATION skills. Now that I've made it "louder," is it easier for you to understand?

    I'm guessing you're the original condescending librarian.

  • katie the librarian | 12/08/2011 flag  |

    Faith, allow me to translate...
    "You have to take some books from the "tight" shelf and then move them to the next shelf to free up some room.
    I would have done this myself but then you would never know how a shelf works."
    There. Can you make out what it says now?

  • Faith | 12/08/2011 flag  |

    Shouldn't a librarian know about punctuation and capitalizing "I"?

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