Library Taking Vacation on Winter Sundays
Check this out, from the Washington Times: “All but 12″ of the D.C. public libraries “have been closed on Sundays as of Nov. 11. The closures are expected to last until the end of January.”
Now, why could this be? Renovations? No. Budgetary problems? No.
Get this: Library staff have built up too much vacation leave, and they’re using it all at the end of the year, so D.C. residents are out of luck. This is an old, old problem in the arena of personnel management, and companies and municipalities across the country have found ways to avoid having their people take all their years of accumulated vacation time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. Not the District, apparently.
My favorite, though, is this quote from DCPL spokesperson: “Unlike most agencies, DCPL is open to serve the public on Saturdays and Sundays,” Kandace Foreman told the Times.
Two things: Not this winter you’re not. And, hey, you’re the goddamn library–of course you’re supposed to be open on weekends. That’s like saying, “Unlike most barber shops, hospitals are open on Mondays.”
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November 30th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
nicholas Says in cherkis blog:
Nov. 28, 2007, at 9:03 pm
This would be slightly entertaining if we were reading a blog for a junior high school newspaper. But if it were a middle school paper, someone would put an end to it, explain that manners matter, and there are standards for journalism. Alas, Jason Cherkis’ boss is Erik Wemple.
It is not so much Jason Cherkis calls someone who posted something bad about him a “pussy” or that his development is arrested.
What would concern any ethical editor is that Cherkis in his original posting was attacking a blogger who had engaged in media criticism of him– without telling his readers as much. Common sense would tell the guy not to be using the credibility of his newspaper (albeit, a sorry assed one) to settle a personal score.
But that is what the City Paper has become all about: Cherkis’ expose of his landlord, while he was in various legal disputes with his landlord and his fellow tenants–none of which he decided to let his readers in on. Or there was the writer who was a cancer survivor who Cherkis decided to crack some cancer jokes here and there. Ha ha yuk it up the due had cancer. Of the landlord tenant lawyer who Cherkis called fat and ugly and had accused (as reported in his story) of making up quotes.
Any real editor would put an end to using a publication for such personal ends. But then the editor of the city paper is.. Erik Wemple.
The same Erik Wemple when his wife is turned down for a full time job at the Washington Post after her work is not found to be too great during a probationary period– decides to make it his life’s mission to be the Post’ foremost critic.
Creative loafing should find the right faculty advisor to some junior high paper and clean up the whole mess