To have caused a fuss in library ??!

[TheRealCarrieBradshaw]

I had to pop to the local library this morning to print some important docs out, as we don't have a printer. They have 6 computers, and then about 12 in their computer training room, although there was a class going on so those ones could not be used.

The 6 were all taken up; some guy looked like he was searching a job site (good on him), some other guy was reading large documents, not sure about 2 others, but then there was a girl (about 24ish) and a lad (probably a little older) sat just scrolling through Facebook, and blatantly daydreaming! There was a queue for the computers and I know some locals who do visit every day to carry out job searches etc.

Anyway, I couldn't help myself, and asked the guy on the desk why it was right for people to have to wait for a computer, for productive purposes, while people are sat wasting their lives on Social Networking, when maybe they should be taking a leaf out of the other guys' book and searching the job sites?

It really gets my back up as I'm a huge believer that you need to work hard in life. I had a chat with the lady on the other desk and she was in total agreement with me that the use of SN sites should be banned from these computers - I have written my complaint to the Council

A quick search reveals TheRealCarrieBradshaw has not hitherto been a prolific poster.

Fingers crossed she gets her feet under the table now. She could become the stuff of legend. Katie Hopkins, is that you in there?

Oh dear, I feel sorry for you having to go into a public library and mingle with the common folk, how very dare they be there when you need to use it. Maybe next time you could ring ahead and ask them to close it for you? Please don't tell me you had to use public transport to get there too? I hope you have been scrubbing yourself in bleach?

Oh and why weren't you in work??

How dare you report this to the council! I hope they rip your letter up.

Maybe the 'lazy fuckers' had just been speaking about astrophysics at a conference having travelling overnight to get there and are jet lagged and just want a bit of down time.

Maybe they are away from home at a funeral and are catching up with close friends and family.

Maybe they have no internet at home or on their phone, or maybe they have no home.

Maybe it's none of your business.

Do you check what books people are borrowing as well, and pass judgement on that?

Don't take any notice of this lot OP

Now would you like to post your letter here so that we can cast an eye over it?

I bet your letter to the council is being passed round now. They probably pin the classics to the wall.

Now would you like to post your letter here so that we can cast an eye over it?

Don't get ahead of yourself. We're still waiting to hear what the guy on the desk said in response to OP's complaint.

Yeah, libraries, those well-known hives of Very Important Activities. God, it's like people should be able to use them for leisure, relaxation and enjoyment purposes, or something, sheesh.

OP, if you are so terribly hard-working and active, why weren't you at work printing them off? And if you're working from home, then surely someone as busy, important and superior to others shoukd be able to afford a printer. They're as cheap as anything in the Jan sales.

I suspect there was no library, printer, or 'lazy fuckers'. It's just a pathetic attempt to find a new way to bash so-called scroungers.

Oh, and people don't need to defend the people using the computers by saying that maybe they were job-hunting, or on their days off, etc. People without jobs, for whatever reason, are as entitled to use social networking as anyone else, and to use library computers to do so. No justification required.

I've been on benefits and used library computers to go on FB on so on. It was the only contact with others I had at the time, and it was a life-saver, MH-wise.

If you've paid for computer time, then you get the computer time, whether you are messing around or doing something important. YABU.

Don't get ahead of yourself. We're still waiting to hear what the guy on the desk said in response to OP's complaint.

oh gosh yes, how did that go? - Was he not as understanding as the nice lady on the other desk?

Why are you wasting your life on Mumsnet? Shouldn't you be searching the job sites?

Well I saw some guys looking at porn on the computers at my local library.

Not sure FB should be banned, but that should be....

Good for you reporting this to the council, it must a dull job and you will have given them the best laugh they've had in ages.

Oh, can I suggest you stop 'wasting your life' on MN. Actually don't, I need a laugh myself sometimes.

Please update us when you get a reply from the council

Right, firstly - no, the comps are free to use, and non-bookable / first come etc.

Secondly, I wondered when someone would pipe up with the question as to why I'm not in work? For the first time ever, I am out of work (without a choice) due to having to care for my hubby following a major Stroke / brain damage and our 2 young children. This is the first time I've never not worked in my working life.

Thirdly, my documents were ones that required signatures and therefore had to be printed.

Fourthly, Yes, I do think looking for jobs (like the guy who was sat waiting in the queue) is far more important than Facebooking! Of course I do and am actually damn shocked that none of you do either!

Oh please let the OP be the woman that spoke to Dawndonnas son today

You do sound a sanctimonious prat OP. Honestly. Just because the people were looking at FB it doesn't mean they are jobless layabouts. I won't waste my time typing out the huge scenarios they could have in their lives but you are the unreasonable one here and have wasted the poor person who has to read and respond to your ridiculous letter's time.

YANBU.

They were clearly dole scum if they weren't at work on this particular Thurs morning (I'm assuming you were there in office time too) and as such, they should be offering to clean the nearest public bogs free of charge if they've got nothing better to do than go on FB.

Oh and lastly, yes, for the bright spark(s) that pointed out the obvious that I was using SN ie Mumsnet, I am, but on my own personal comp, if I was sat at a library on it, and there was a queue I would jump off!

Why don't you suggest to the library that they implement a booking system?

SaucyJack - Never said dole scum, I personally don't believe that anybody claiming dole or the like are 'Scum', what I don't agree with is people wasting their time on sites as FB when they could've been using it for more productive purposes, ie job searching

Y are SBU

I lived many years without internet and used the library daily.
Some days for serious purposes and some days for fun.

Some days I had to do it during my baby's nap time and some days I could leave her with my husband.

Either way I always booked in advance and had a time limit.

You are being ridiculous.

It's not that people don't think looking for work is more important than Facebook. It's that people don't agree with your attitude that you are more important than someone who happens to be looking at Facebook, on a public computer. If they got there first, that's your tough luck.

They are public computers, to be used how the library sees fit for them to be used, not your personal computers, to be used as/when/how you deem appropriate.

That's the issue people have with your attitude.

That and the 'lazy fuckers' comment. How do the people at the library know that you aren't a lazy fucker?