[Publib] "Elizabeth, getting off her soapbox"

[Deborah]

I’ve been employed at a public library for 21 years and still remember with a shudder working in corporate America where every illness was suspect and, God forbid, if you had a sick child you were better off dumping them off at animal cruelty to either improve or be adopted by someone who had the time to deal with their troublesome maladies--I like libraries better. 
  I appreciated liberal sick time, never abused it, and was grateful it was there. When my son was hit by a car, no one questioned I had to take care of him and the sympathy and concern of the entire library staff made me want to weep. When my husband managed to get hurt on the job, burning his foot horrendously at a steel mill, he was expected to be back at work within a week so has not to skew the lost-time accident (LTA) frequency and I was able to take care of him, using my sick time. (My library even sent a get-well card to him, an action not duplicated by his employer!)  There were times when, as in every life, some rain must fall and I needed time off to deal with my own sickness and all the staff cared about was how I was doing. When my mother died, no questions asked about how soon I would return or how my department would be covered were ever brought up—and in all cases I returned to my job with a greater appreciation of  a culture that supported my humanity. 
  What the library got was an employee who is as loyal as a bird dog and not prone to abusing her blessings by biting the hand that feed her.  
   
  Please make some space on the soapbox since I am joining you up there
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  Deborah Beasley



Beware the man of one book. Latin Proverb


 		
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