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.

I agree User202004, and find the general head-patting, patronising defence of the ‘poor’, low-class cleaner who ‘obviously didn’t know any better’ to be really quite distasteful in itself.

Krystal V didn’t think before tweeting, she made an error of judgment there. Or she might just be a spiteful piece of work in general, who knows.

The BBC shouldn’t have run this story, it makes for uncomfortable reading.

Fair enough, I read it twice and missed it both times.

I'd say the librarian who wrote the tweet is mortified now. As a PP said, I doubt she imagined where this would end up

So it's OK to mock an employee to your library friends but not OK if everyone else find out?

If this were me, I would hope I could see the funny side & laugh at my mistake. The article doesn’t seem unpleasant at all.

No not at all Pleasantville you're misunderstanding me.

It's wrong, as I said.

I see her Twitter account is now locked, so I'd say she had some level of response...

If there is any disciplinary action to be taken when everything gets back to.normal.,I hope the Library services discipline the "Tweeter " rather than the cleaner completely unprofessional.to plaster this all over social media ,it could have been dealt with privately

Of course it’s sneery and patronising oh look they didn’t know better

Why not just say an employee

I cant help but wonder if the cleaner actually did it as a joke

@EarringsandLipstick yep, meanwhile other DBS checked council employees are run off of their feet, and volunteers are doing a lot which really is out of their remit. It would make sense to be tasked with other bits and bobs but nope.

And maybe you would Happymum if your mistake was explained to you privatley? It's the fact that the mistake is on social media for all to see which makes it distasteful and unpleasant .

I'm with the librarian on this one...it's common knowledge that libraries use a system to organise books. You don't have to understand or know about the system but rearranging by size as absolutely absurd and leaves the librarians with a hell of a job to rearrange it all back to normal. Cleaners aren't paid to rearrange...they're paid to clean, and they shouldn't be fiddling with things.

Well at least they weren't all arranged by colour, which is what my local charity shop does with their CDs

I mean who the hell doesn’t understand ‘alphabetical order’

I don’t automatically know the order of the alphabet, I have to mentally recite it in my head. One of the joys of dyspraxia

I’m not a bloody stupid woman though

Libraries don’t always use alphabetical order to arrange fiction books.
This thread is a bit like being stuck in a training course in the early 90s - But we’ve ALWAYS used alphabetical order, I’m not keen on these new fangled display ideas. We’re not WATERSTONES for goodness sake!

Wow.

I don't think the article is too bad. I don't even think the tweet is that bad. But some of the comments on this thread are awful.

Where I work we have various symptoms of organising things, including books and because not every human in the planner is aware of them sometimes some strange things happen. It doesn't mean a person is thick or uneducated, it means they don't realise a certain thing about a certain system, because they've never been shown. I could probably post a tweet a fortnight about someone messing something up where I work because we get quite a lot of volunteers and temp staff. It happens, it's frustrating, but the person who did it always had the best of intentions. We've just assumed they had prior knowledge.

Who ever manages the library now knows they need to teach all staff about the system.

the cleaner has created a huge job for the library assistants that wouldn’t need to be done if she’d put the books back as she took them off. I doubt anyone would want to go into a library and spend hours trying to find books that are categorised by size.
This thread is typical of Mumsnet inverse snobbery- the librarians must be in the wrong just because they’ve got a nicer job so they don’t deserve any sympathy.

I used to know KVittles. The tone of her post is totally in keeping with her personality.

It’s no larger a job than tidying up after the public have been browsing. Unless the library only lets some of the posters on this thread in through the doors.
Content warning: books from different areas of the Library

I totally agree. I read it and was actually quite shocked. I really hope the cleaner in question has the resilience and sense of humour to cope with having their mistake publicised like this.

Very unprofessional tweet by the Head if Service.

I don’t like how this is looking down on this woman, it does feel off. If this woman is a valued member of staff they’d simply point out the mistake, say no harm done and that’s that. No need to share with the world.

that is a cruel article/tweet
in some charity shops they organise them in colour order.

We all make mistakes. The vast majority of us will make a few mistakes in our lifetime that fall into the "stupid" category. Ask yourself how you would feel if you made a mistake at work and woke up the next day to find it had gone viral on the internet and had even made it into the mainstream media. Some people can take that sort of thing in their stride but many would find it humiliating and very difficult to deal with.