Which one is nuts?
Posted on 12/02/2005 9:55:21 PM PST by endthematrix
A staffer at the LaPorte County (Ind.) Public Library’s Coolspring branch received a one-week suspension for spending too much time attempting to rescue a squirrel trapped in the library’s ceiling. Cindee Goetz said in the December 1 Michigan City (Ind.) News-Dispatch that when a company hired by the library switched from using a non-kill trap to a kill trap, she asked a friend who owns a humane animal-removal business to capture the squirrel. Goetz said she was then suspended without pay for “not giving the library its just due.” She told the newspaper, “They said I went around the chain of command” and that “I was paying more attention to the animal than I was my job.”
Library Executive Director Judy Hamilton told American Libraries she couldn’t comment on the suspension, stating only that there have been other similar problems with Goetz. “This is not an isolated incident,” she said. “If it had been an isolated incident, the reaction would have been different.”
Last year Goetz, a clerical assistant II, kept an abandoned bird in a garage at the branch and took care of it on her work breaks. The News-Dispatch reported she was reprimanded but not suspended for that incident.
Goetz, who owns an animal shelter, said she feels library officials are indifferent to animals, adding that although the squirrel isn’t someone’s pet, it deserved to get out of the library alive. “I don’t want that squirrel to die, either, but I can’t allow a live animal to be headquartered in that building,” Hamilton told the newspaper. “It’s a severe situation I can’t ignore. I’m not running a squirrel condominium here.”
THy intercession is required, m'lud.
It's just so darned fun to hang out up there.
[T]he administration was so loath to interfere with the viewing choices of its patrons that it chastised a security guard for telling a 6-year-old boy that he shouldn't be looking at p**nography.Remember, we are talking about an organization, the American Library Association, whose de facto leader, Judith Krug, said:
Parents who care give their children Playboy.For more information, go here:
I shoot squirrels with a .177 caliber airgun from my attic window. Because they destroy my siblings' garden, and chew up anything made of rope that is left outside for more than a day. And they hide in the treetops and throw nuts at me whenever I go out. This lady has been aiding and abetting the enemy. No sympathy.
Guess this makes the library officials feel like Goliaths for once in their puny lives by firing a clerical assistant.
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