The woes of an archivist

[scottishlass]

Sometimes I really ask myself if I wasn't better off just being a writer. I mean as a writer I just have to worry about my plot and characters, and have others post my fiction and I can also bugger them to post my stories to boot. Oh what a wonderful life it would be ... but no - through some delusion of grandeur *snicker* I had to be an archivist as well. *sigh*
Stupid of me. Why?
Here is just one example of an email I received today (that was number 11 I got in the course of one week):

I had a story that I sent in over a week ago and it still hasn't been posted, even though you've updated several times. It's title was XXX XXX XXX. If you do not allow no [that should probably read as new] submissions and still work off old ones you should have said so on your web site. If you can handle the submissions let someone else take over your site.


Ahhhhh... wonderful, thank you, bad Una for not keeping her readers and writers happy ... and being clairvoyant enough to know ALL the stories on the site by name.
What they don't do is READ! Nedra is handling the new submissions and ever since the blackout in NYC I haven't heard of her. *Sigh* ... okay, now I go look for a puppy to kick .. or an archivist ...
Ta ta

Comments

[sg1padawan.livejournal.com]

I'm the only archivist? Really? Coooooool! ^___^

And feel free to bug and kick me whenever you like. Just don't be offended if I tell you to go shove it. LMAO Kidding, kidding. <3

Dude, honest to god, you have WAY more patience and restraint than me. I couldn't NOT tell them to go and jump in the lake.

Re: plane to NYC - well, they probably expect it. *rolls eyes* If you're not flying halfway 'round the world, you're not trying HARD enough! ;)

And we know that they don't realise what a HUGE undertaking maintaining a site like yours is. But for those who DO understand, WE appreciate you. :)

*hugs*

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Ahh yes, dedication ... like a mother to a child, like OB to his work ... *snort*

You even have my permission to tell me to bugger off, Sez, if I ever become an annoying little asshole. I expect no less from you :)
As for restraint. I have a mean violent temper, I normally don't have any restraint, but I have too often blown a fuse in fandoms that I try to keep myself in check. So don't get any ideas, I'm not rooting for sainthood, *lol*, I just don't want to get into trouble again IF I let loose.
But the overall stupidity of people is definitely grating on my nerves.

Did you, too, notice that all the complainers are bad spellers? One day I'll dissect one or two of their emails publicly on site just to show them off as the idiots they are. Double negations, wrong apostrophes and overall bad grammar; even I wasn't that bad when I was their age, both in my own language and in English.

[sg1padawan.livejournal.com]

You even have my permission to tell me to bugger off, Sez, if I ever become an annoying little asshole. I expect no less from you :)

LMAO! You have my word, not that I believe it will ever actually, y'know, HAPPEN. *G* You becoming an asshole, or me telling you to bugger off, I mean. ;)

So don't get any ideas, I'm not rooting for sainthood, *lol*, I just don't want to get into trouble again IF I let loose.

I still say bugger 'em. What are they going to do? NOT post their badly written, horribly spelt, non-punctuated teenybopper fic? Ohhhh noooooo....!! What a tragedy! </sarcasm> ;)

Did you, too, notice that all the complainers are bad spellers?

I did. It constantly amazes me how poor people spell. I can forgive some of it... but how hard is it to use a dictionary or a spell check?! Oy vey...