well
if nobody is making the effort maybe you need to start something
what happens with my librarians group is one librarian calls a meeting once a term and different librarians host it in their library and we meet after school
or sometimes meet just meet one on one for visits to different libraries
it isnt just social its practical for example if Ive got too many duplicate books and another librarian is missing some from her library we arrange a swap to save money
This has been going on for a while. As in several years, at least.... But my anger over this, really got a hold of me, this year! At least I really started to FEEL the anger in more intensity then in the past. I started noticing that when it came to outreaching. I was the one trying to do it in as nice as possible way and I could, and yet it appeared that I was getting rejected by nearly everyone! In my opinion, our current librarian is a total hypocrite. Or she's really dumb. I'm not sure which. She was a former teacher too. Last year she retired and then decided to come back, and work as a librarian.
I do little things to try and maintain any little social thing that I can... I took just a little bit of time off of doing my job to show her some pictures of my model airplanes. She says, I don't have time for that. But you can show the lady who is sitting next to me. So I start showing the lady next to her. The lady next to her says, "Hey these are pretty good!" Then the librarian, says, "Hey give me that!" Looks at them, and then hands them back to me. The she starts lecturing me how I should join a model airplane club. So, I'm like "Ok". And walked away.
Like several weeks or a month or two, I forget really. A long time later. lol She finds me in the hallway, and says "Hey you never talk to me anymore". I responded. "Because every time I try to talk to you, your always too busy". She responds "Well that's true because I'm a librarian now."
Here is the thing, my story just sounds like this was just a one time thing. But this story is just one example of many other times with her. And believe me, even when she was a teacher, she acted like this... Several times when she was a teacher, she commented that she never sees me anymore. I responded, it's because you've been leaving the school before i had a chance to get to your room. She responded. "Yeah that is probably true." Then there were the few times when she just wanted to give me a hard time. She would try saying some meaningless thing to me in the hallway. The problem is, I had head phones on, and I was pushing my trash carts over the tile floor. Making it nearly impossible to hear anything. So I would stop, take off my head phones, and try to find out what it was she was muttering to me. It turned out to be something really dumb.
AND SHE'S ALMOST THE ONLY PERSON THAT ACTUALLY TRIES TALKING TO ME! Seems like she's backed away from it. Reduced it down to "hi". Which, when it comes to her, I'm fine with it.
I got lots of stories I could tell you to make my point. But I want to stop here for now.
