Mar 23, 2007
{ Other Duties As Assigned }
Sarcastic-I'm a children's librarian. Let's see...when I was hired to my job, it was assumed that I would do such things as - read to children; purchase, organize, and learn about books for children; create programming for children; etc. Ya'll can see the direction this is going...normal job things for a children's librarian. Then, there's that last little asterisk at the bottom of the job description..."Other Duties As Assigned." This minor little phrase has taken on a life of its own.
Other Duties As Assigned:
-With Smartass Boy, plan and implement a new layout for our entire staff workroom, including the physical labor of moving everything.
-Do a large portion of my boss's work for her, including but not limited to: quarterly and annual reports; budgets; interviews.
-Become a security guard for the library. This includes removing obnoxious fighting children, adults looking at pornography, and people who smell too bad.
-Become an undercover tattletale, as one of the staff members who is now expected to tell our boss every time another specific staff member isn't doing her job.
This is just a small sampling of what "Other Duties As Assigned" means here for me. This is not to say that I didn't know I'd be doing a lot of these things coming in, it's just that your slightly fluffy looking job description gets a lot tougher looking after adding in everything else you have to do.
Labels: other duties as assigned, whining
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