Okay, let's count the actually useful work-related things I did today.
1. I put some old magazines in the recycle bin (we had such a large stack that I am doing only a few a day to give others a chance to put things in the bin).
2. I delivered copies of yesterday's packet of invoices-to-be-paid to my supervisor, and the originals to the dean to be signed.
3. I unpacked a shipment of one book from Baker & Taylor.
4. I emailed a co-worker asking for contact information in another department (if she had it) for a special project.
5. I put a bunch of books from the "Friends of the Library Room" (where we store rejected donations and books discarded from the stacks) out on the book sale table. (This actually usefully occupied about an hour of time, since I had to sort through stacks of junk several times.)
Yeah. So like, a grand total of an hour and fifteen minutes' work in an eight-hour day (eight and a half if you want to be technical - 10 - 6:30 allows me 30 minutes' lunch, but I almost never actually leave the room for it). I'm not trying to be a deadbeat, really...
Now, going to go buy fancy whiskey to take to
the_misha, et al.'s party tomorrow.
1. I put some old magazines in the recycle bin (we had such a large stack that I am doing only a few a day to give others a chance to put things in the bin).
2. I delivered copies of yesterday's packet of invoices-to-be-paid to my supervisor, and the originals to the dean to be signed.
3. I unpacked a shipment of one book from Baker & Taylor.
4. I emailed a co-worker asking for contact information in another department (if she had it) for a special project.
5. I put a bunch of books from the "Friends of the Library Room" (where we store rejected donations and books discarded from the stacks) out on the book sale table. (This actually usefully occupied about an hour of time, since I had to sort through stacks of junk several times.)
Yeah. So like, a grand total of an hour and fifteen minutes' work in an eight-hour day (eight and a half if you want to be technical - 10 - 6:30 allows me 30 minutes' lunch, but I almost never actually leave the room for it). I'm not trying to be a deadbeat, really...
Now, going to go buy fancy whiskey to take to