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There are a TON of people in the music library computer lab.
Shh! Go away! No cellphones, no food!
This means YOU!
No, you can't print out 300 pages at a time. Why? Because it would slow down the print queue and make everyone else wait five times as long for their one little page. That's why we have a page limit of 50.
No, I didn't just make it up. It's ALWAYS been that way. You've just never FOLLOWED THE RULES before!!
I actually had to tell some girl who got pissy with me (because I told her she couldn't talk on her phone in the library), that I really was just doing my job and that it wasn't anything personal.
Yeesh. People are just...RUDE.
*stabs all the really rude people*
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Since I'm at the very end of coursework, I don't actually have all the final papers and projects that all my friends have (and indeed, that's the issue with all these poor souls in the music library, as well ). I really can't complain TOO much. It's just my ever-present issue with people acting like selfish jerks in libraries. That will always be a part of me, and no amount of being done with coursework will change that.
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Boy I’d be in such trouble with my hands free cellular, secret stash of food, and printing out 50 pages at a time until it was done.
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Jay, if you were printing out 50 pages at a time, that'd be ok.
If you were eating, I'd tell you to stop. If you refused, I'd ask you to leave. If you continued to refuse, I'd call my supervisor who'd call IUPD on you.
If you were talking on your cellphone, I'd as you politely to stop. If you refused, I'd just stand behind and be nasty about it until you stopped.
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Megan, it's a good thing you don't work in Israel. I'm not sure you'd survive the day without killing anyone. Posts: 7877 | Registered: Feb 2003
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It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't working in a freakin' LIBRARY. It's as if people have just completely lost the concept of libraries as places of quiet study.
I have personal issues with cellphones; I'm willing to admit it. I think people tend to be extraordinarily rude to others around them while using cellphones, and see nothing wrong with it.
This isn't my personal feeling, though; this is a library rule.
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I have no problem with people with cellphones (I'm married to one of em). My issue is with people who use them in very rude manners, and the fact that having a cellphone seems to destroy people's sense of what's appropriate when and where. I've been in the position of overhearing sooo many conversations because a person couldn't manage to keep their voices low enough while talking into a cellphone that it didn't carry over the entire area they were in at the time.
As I've said before, part of the problem is that people tend to raise their voices when talking on phones, because they're not getting any aural feedback of their own voice (unlike a land-line phone). They talk louder than they would either on a land-line phone or talking person-to-person.
The other issue is that people have begun to view the freedom of communication their cellphone gives them as THEIR right to exercise ANYWHERE, regardless of how it might disturb people around them. Like I said, I wouldn't be having nearly as big a problem if this weren't a library.
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