Phone call from management. My usually very patient colleague answered.

Manager: "We're looking at the footfall figures for the last couple of weeks and they're less than half of what they were this time last year. That's bad Why is that?"

Colleague: "Oh I don't know, have you ever heard of a fucking thing called COVID?"

Silence.

Manager: "We need you to get the numbers up."
Colleague: "[Manager], you fucking imbecile. What do you want from us? We're short staffed and there's a fucking pandemic. IMBECILE!"

Today I learned that every librarian has their breaking point and we've found one of them.

He's walking around saying "Fucking IMBECILES" under his mask.

He just turned to me and said " @grumpwitch, we are dealing with some incredible cretins."

"I'd noticed."

"Headless fucking chickens."

"Yep."

"Absolute morons."

"Pretty much, yeah."

Current scenes at the library

It would be funny if they weren't being paid triple my salary + expenses.

Management: "We've had some complaints that people are having to queue for basic services. This is unacceptable."

Staff:

Current morale level: