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So, I had a lovely little chat today with my boss about the state of the department, budget cuts, and so forth.

The good news: I still have a job! In fact, I am even getting a (tiny minuscule) raise, which I find boggling but am not going to complain about. (Although, if it is as I suspect a symbolic measure, do you know what I would have appreciated more? Keys to the damn office so I don't have to go around to the public entrance every time I need to duck out into the stacks for a few minutes.)

The bad news: We had talked last week about how I can't keep up with the tasks assigned to me, especially as term gets busier, and she had said that she would look into hiring me a minion coworker. Sadly, her boss said that that wasn't possible, so I will remain minionless. (All (three) of us that make up the dept are going to chat next week about re-arranging the assignments so that I'm less swamped, because when I get swamped, books don't get returned and just sit on the shelf waiting for me to get a chance to stuff them in boxes, and then libraries send us overdue bills. Fun stuff. I have been trying to decide which part of my duties I would most like to pawn off onto other people.)

Both my boss and the other guy who is probably also my boss made sure to emphasize how impressed they were that I had been keeping up as well as I had been, and how usually it takes many more student-hours, and so on (I suspect this might have something to do with the raise.). For the record, things I did at work today that were not work: Checked my email. Checked up on RaceFAIL 09. Checked my email again. Checked in some books I had borrowed. Ran up to the third floor to grab some other books I wanted. Re-organized by WorldCat list. Checked my email again. (I suspect their previous workers may have been serious slackers.)