More rumours, and a job fair

A* is on holiday this week, so I’m working with a pool person I’ve worked with once before. We only have 10 customers today, so I have plenty of opportunity to find out more about her. (Nothing of note.) There was a pop-up coffee shop outside and when I asked my colleague if that’s where she’d got her cup of coffee from, she turned it around so I could see that it clearly came from a supermarket beginning with ‘W’.

What is noteworthy is the reason the pop-up coffee shop was outside is that there is a job fair going on in the community centre next door today, so there’s a) no parking, and we have to park round the back, where the railway station is (which I’ve never been to before) and b) a lot of noise! Our hopes are raised that some of the job seekers might come into the library, but we only get one person who puts her head round the door at the back and say “Oh, sorry!” and disappears.

I wander into the hall to see which employers are there, and the only one that’s recognisable is the Air Force. They are in uniform and have a banner up so are easy to see, but the others — well, I have no idea who they were. The gimmicky red fluffy ‘toys’ on the desk tell me nothing at all about the company they represent. I get some interested looks though — as if no one knew there is a library next door! (I am wearing my lanyard.)

At about 4 o’clock the noise dies down and the RAF remove their van from outside the library, and the two ladies (one looks like Amy Winehouse, the other has a very short dress on which isn’t very practical) spend ages tying their bicycle (the heart of their pop-up coffee shop) onto a trailer before they finally leave. We don’t see the centre manager to ask about the day.

We discharge the rest of the adult non-fiction and only find one book that belongs elsewhere. We repeat the process with the board books and find a few that need to be sent to their own libraries.

At the end of the day, we have signed up another 2 children to the BFR, and only one customer has used the computers. And I hear who might want the full-time post that’s recently come up at Henleaze….