Days of Shades

And I find I just missed the mandatory “Active Shooter Training.” (I assume the name is meant to distinguish roving gunmen from passive shooters, who just sit in the lobby casually and only take potshots at passersby or something).

The training was given by a local policeman who got really excited about the idea of having Someone to Shoot and told people he knew which things were safest to hide behind because several of his coworkers have misfired their guns in the office.

Upshot: My coworkers still aren’t particularly worried about someone randomly attacking a library administrative building, but they’re beginning to be concerned about the local police.

In other news, the door back to the pressroom now has a deadbolt, and a sign that says it MUST REMAIN LOCKED AT ALL TIMES. Since they removed and boarded up the only exterior door from the room, and the lock is openable from the office side, I’m forced to assume they’re trying to keep someone or something IN the pressroom. Nonetheless, I have disobeyed the sign and fetched water from the sink in there twice now, and no rabid creatures dropped on my head/sprang from the closet/uncoiled from the cupboards.

The facilities guy did swing by once and growl when he found it wasn’t locked, though. He was pretty angry. Oops.