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msmemory_archive ([personal profile] msmemory_archive) wrote2005-10-14 01:25 pm

Perfectly reasonable

I don't think it's at all unreasonable to expect that my office trash should have been emptied some time between last Thursday and today. I had filled two wastebaskets to the brim, and was contemplating hunting up a third from an empty office. But I had to get grief from the guy who's supposed to have been covering for our janitor, and had the nerve to ask me why I didn't just take them down to the dumpster myself, "Oh, you won't do it because you went to Wellesley?" Fine, you want to consider me a snob, or a wimpy girlie, go right ahead. Just empty the trash before the mice get into the remains of last Friday's sandwich.

[identity profile] antoniseb.livejournal.com 2005-10-14 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I would have not taken it to the dumpster myself in the off chance that the janitorial staff was unionized. I got a real talking to at work once for carrying my computer from my office to a demo room. I've been careful about those toes ever since.

[identity profile] lucianus.livejournal.com 2005-10-14 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
What Anton said. I've had the same experience, once bitten twice shy. Besides, I have yest to see a librarian's job description that calls for trash collection as a duty.