[Publib] children of staff

[Bookbitch]

This goes way beyond the way employees are spending their time at work. It
addresses workplace culture, if you will.  The way I see it is that
libraries that are this rigid about one issue with staff will undoubtedly be
this rigid about other issues with the staff, and the public. 

This is a personal issue for me.  I am way too customer service oriented to
be happy working in such an environment. I wouldn't want to work there - and
they wouldn't want me there either.

Stacy Alesi
Library Name *Censored*
Boca Raton, Florida
& MLIS student at USF

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-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Dyndiuk [mailto:myp_chan at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:13 PM
To: publib at webjunction.org; BookBitch
Cc: ladyhawk at well.com
Subject: Re: [Publib] children of staff

--- On Mon, 2/4/08, BookBitch <bookbitch at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I don't think I would want to work for a library that had such a rigid 
> "no kids" policy.  If they treat employees' kids that way, how do they 
> treat the public?

Employees generally aren't allowed to babysit the public during work hours
either, and members of the public also aren't allowed in staff areas. Most
libraries also have policies regarding unattended children. So as I see it,
libraries with these rules are treating employee's children exactly like
members of the public.

This is the second time in this thread that I've seen a comment like this,
and I still don't understand it. This isn't about how children are being
"treated" at all, it's about how employees are spending their time at work. 

Linda Dyndiuk
Somerville Public Library