[Publib] PUBLIB posts DO end up on the Web

[Backwage at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/8/2008 8:53:56 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
DBird at riversideca.gov writes:

Hence  the conversation turned to what an employer (as opposed to a member of 
the  public) might learn about a job candidate's views through a simple 
Google  search -- as if M's personal sentiments about the New York Times bestseller 
 list which spawned this whole discussion are somehow blasphemous and  
professionally damaging.



Couple of things here:  What's really revealed through these posts is  that a 
fair proportion of library folk lack the ability to perceive when they  are 
being joshed.  This fits in well with the stereotype of the humorless  
librarian glaring out from the desk--but the situation is general in  society.  
 
Apart from that, we should all remember that candidates for jobs have the  
opportunity to do their own internet searches about employers--not the  
institution itself but upon the ossified creatures, humorless drones and  beaten-down 
husks who do the actual interviewing.  Not that this does  anything for the 
candidate.  If anything, it reminds her what she will be  reduced to in a few 
short years.  And of course, one library is very much  like another:  it might 
be better if applicants sent in a recorded response  to the standard questions, 
but this might spawn the use of recorded  questions--and eliminate the need 
for anybody to attend at all.  
 
I do recall, way back in college, a woman I worked for at a public  
library--very nice person in the morning.  At lunch she would hasten to a  local 
restaurant, there to suck down tumblers, if not actual flagons of red  wine, with 
the result that she was very much in the embrace of Bacchus by two  o'clock.  
Upon returning to the fold she would close the door to her little  office and 
read until closing time.  She was really something at the  reference desk after 
these dinners.  Now, how come I never got interviewed  by such as she?
 
M. M.  Note:  a pox on prospective employers.  If not the  scrofula, I say.
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