Anyone else think this BBC article is in poor taste?

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Or am I just being miserable?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-52412655

I don't know, I just really don't like the idea of publicly sharing someone's mistake just to deliver a "light relief". The poor cleaner might be absolutely mortified and it seems really intellectually snobbish to have a god laugh just because someone doesn't understand the bloody dewy decimal system. Really nasty I think.

good laugh, not god laugh, obviously!

Yes I thought the same. Very sneery undertone.

I know what you mean; it does seem a bit snobbish to me and I feel bad for the cleaner

I saw it just as a funny quite heartwarming tale, not laughing at the cleaner. No one said the cleaner was stupid for doing it or anything.

You have a point, although I think it's the tweet from the head of delivery that's particularly bitchy. And quite unprofessional now I come to think about it. Her sympathy is very obviously with her library colleague who discovered the re-shelved books. Why was the cleaner left to re-shelve 18 bays of books by herself? Or was she not supposed to but did it anyway? In which case the matter should be dealt with professionally and not plastered over social media.

And then a link put on here...

@plexie, I thought the same about the original tweet - highly unprofessional. And I bet she wouldn't have sent it if it somehow had have been the Director or Library Services who had made the mistake.

Yes I thought the same OP

Yabu to share it on here in the same way that the bbc were unreasonable to publish it.

The row behind aren’t even in height order.

OP is sharing this for a different reason though.

The original tweet is unpleasant and yes a bit bitchy.

What Plexie said

It's easier to clean books if they're arranged by size. Very sensible, from the POV of the person cleaning them.

By the looks of it she only re are aged them in size order on that shelf. Doesn't look like she went around the whole library and took all the books out just to put them back in size order.
Why they felt the need to run to the news is beyond me. Bit nasty actually.

Rearranged* thank you auto correct

Well like it says in the article, they will have plenty of time to re arrange them. I think it's unfair to have made such a big thing of it.

I hope the cleaner agreed for someone to write this up.

What total snobs! They can do the deep cleaning next time there's an outbreak instead of giggling into their cups of lady grey at the person who did the job that's beneath them. Morons.

I take the point about not giving further exposure to the coverage by resharing the link - but how then are we to challenge poor or thoughtless journalism without highlighting it when it happens? This isn't an article from the Daily Mail or the Sun, this is from a (moderately well regarded) publicly-funded organisation.

I saw the tweet stating her colleague is now having a bad week? Think how the cleaner feels after spending 18.5 bays cleaning and tidying to have someone post on social media about how it's ruined a librarians week!

Give over, you've ruined someone else week by taking the micky!!!!

The article it’s self isn’t too sneery and judge (but a complete non story for the BBC). That tweet is very unkind however.

Perhaps the bbc simply recognise cleaners are people who make mistakes the same as anyone can?
In wringing your hands over this you are defining the cleaner as someone to be championed, which could also be seen as patronising. Even if it’s well intentioned, you’re making assumptions about the intention because she’s a cleaner.
I mean who the hell doesn’t understand ‘alphabetical order’? What a stupid bloody woman - cleaner or not.

Yes it is a bit sneery. It's sort of taking the piss out of her isn't it? I love books but go to the library very rarely these days. Let's face it, how many of us truly understand the Dewy system anyway? When I look at library books I often leave the one next to it sticking out a bit so it can be replaced in proper order.

However it is logical to replace the books in the same way you took them out but then not everyone has my logic.

Dont worry...this is Newmarket...no one reads there !!!🤣

It’s very off. Every more so because the person posting the tweet and the BBC don’t see they are looking down on someone. It’s done in a aah isn’t this sweet patronising way. They are showing how much affection they have for the cleaner, but are basically patting her on the head like a child.

I arrange my books in height order because they look tidier. I do understand how the alphabet and dewy decimal system works.

Maybe after deep cleaning the entire library she got to the end, way tired and wanted to go home. She just put the books back onto that shelf. Maybe they had been stacked by size order on the floor (logically) and she didn’t have time to sort them?

If I was her, I’d want to go back next week and rearrange all the books in the whole library by colour and then resign.

That Twitter thread is spiteful.

Chockful of arseholes jokily saying how awful it is that someone has done this, in faux-outrage so that it sounds as if they are all having a gentle laugh. Congratulating themselves on how literate and intelligent they are, because they would never make such a basic mistake.

I thought the tweet asking if the cleaner was illiterate was particularly telling - because you must be illiterate not to know of or understand the Dewey decimal system, right?

Sneery, nasty, and ultimately classist.