Handbasket Update

Well, Miss E is now DEFINITELY no longer an employee of the "liberry".

As of closing time Friday, she still had not returned any of Mrs. A's calls further convincing us that she was trying to quit through sheer neglect. This would seem to be the case as Mrs. A has spoken with Miss E's mother and learned that Miss E has taken a factory job two towns over and has actually been working it for the past week and a half. It's a second shift position, meaning she doesn't leave work until 1 in the morning. This further indicates that the story we were told about her being very sick last weekend was a lie.

This is very disappointing to us all, but primarily to Mrs. A, Mrs. C, Mrs. B and Mrs. J who have known Miss E for most of her life. They were her friends as well as coworkers and say that this sort of behavior is not what they would have expected from her--or at least not from the Miss E they used to know.

Miss E has been a common sight at the library since she was a small child. She practically grew up in the summer reading and story-hour programs and was among the students in Miss E's first Summer Reading group. Eventually, she outgrew the programs and began volunteering to help out with them. It was because of this formerly good relationship that Mrs. A offered her a job as our weekend library assistant last year when she was only a junior in highschool. She was already among the handful of high school aged kids who we practically consider library staff, so it made sense to bring her in part time. As an employee, Miss E had been fairly decent. Weekend shift is never the most exciting, but she usually did a good job of it. Sure, she's been guilty of doing so using less than her whole ass on occasion, but what can you expect? She was in high school!

Unfortunately, things haven't gone so well for Miss E's personal life this year and they weren't that great to start with. There are a lot of things I'd like to write about it, both bad and good, but I won't go into it here. Ex-coworker or not I still don't care to spread around her personal business no matter how pseudonymously.

I still think Miss E is a good egg at heart. However, she's a good egg who comes from a carton full of spoiled and otherwise cracked eggs. Despite her best and half-best efforts, theirs is an influence that's proving to be very difficult to escape.