Wierd work matters.
Oct. 4th, 2007 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kippurbirdI'm having work issues.
Paul gave me an assignment. Make sure our periodicals match up with what the computer says we have. Basically that meant going through the stacks and writing down every periodical and issues we have and then updating the database. A lot of foot work as we have two walls of periodicals and some of them are in Hebrew. Paul said that it should take until December to do and suggested having students helping me gather the information and making forms and things. I just grabbed a pad of paper, walked down the wall and took down the information myself. Then I updated the database myself. Paul also wanted me to make sure that a group of periodicals that used to be in the main stacks but moved to the periodicals were marked as periodicals and not main. That actually took a bit of thinking because some of the periodicals had over twenty issues that needed to be changed.
The program that we use has something called a rapid update feature which allows you to change a something in a batch of files. Like location or status or... I dunno. Whatever. Paul mentioned it to me once. After a lot of experimenting I figured out how to do it. It saved a lot time. So, I finished that as I did the periodicals as they were in the same section.
In any case I finished on Tuesday.
Paul comes over about half hour after I finish and asks about how I was doing on the project. I say that I'm finished. He asked about the other project and I said, oh, I'm done with that too.
He kinda looks at me funny/confused and says something like, "Oh. Good. Good. That's good." And then walks off. And I don't really see him for the next two days nor does he give me another assignment to do. So I spent most of yesterday just sort of staring at my computer screen.
And I don't know... what to do. He just doesn't seem to know what to with me now that I've finished all the work he assigned to me before my deadline. I'm not sure what he's going to do about it. I'm just very quick. It was easy for me. I don't think he knows what to with me because of it.
So, I guess I'll see what happens.
Paul gave me an assignment. Make sure our periodicals match up with what the computer says we have. Basically that meant going through the stacks and writing down every periodical and issues we have and then updating the database. A lot of foot work as we have two walls of periodicals and some of them are in Hebrew. Paul said that it should take until December to do and suggested having students helping me gather the information and making forms and things. I just grabbed a pad of paper, walked down the wall and took down the information myself. Then I updated the database myself. Paul also wanted me to make sure that a group of periodicals that used to be in the main stacks but moved to the periodicals were marked as periodicals and not main. That actually took a bit of thinking because some of the periodicals had over twenty issues that needed to be changed.
The program that we use has something called a rapid update feature which allows you to change a something in a batch of files. Like location or status or... I dunno. Whatever. Paul mentioned it to me once. After a lot of experimenting I figured out how to do it. It saved a lot time. So, I finished that as I did the periodicals as they were in the same section.
In any case I finished on Tuesday.
Paul comes over about half hour after I finish and asks about how I was doing on the project. I say that I'm finished. He asked about the other project and I said, oh, I'm done with that too.
He kinda looks at me funny/confused and says something like, "Oh. Good. Good. That's good." And then walks off. And I don't really see him for the next two days nor does he give me another assignment to do. So I spent most of yesterday just sort of staring at my computer screen.
And I don't know... what to do. He just doesn't seem to know what to with me now that I've finished all the work he assigned to me before my deadline. I'm not sure what he's going to do about it. I'm just very quick. It was easy for me. I don't think he knows what to with me because of it.
So, I guess I'll see what happens.
