Continuing saga of stuff

Originally published at a denizen's entertainment. You can comment here or there.

Situation continues to improve for me personally at the charity shop. Hopefully this keeps up; I keep fearing it shall fall out from under me and I shall be back to tedious boredom.

Yesterday I was asked if I could come in earlier today, and work 09:00-14:00 instead of 12:00-17:00. That was fine with me. Had been considering requesting such a switch, and hesitated to see if I could continue being up appropriately early for it first. When I arrived I was assigned to continue a project started by one of the senior staff yesterday, and which was basically identical to the book-sorting I had attempted a few weeks ago. Seems the undoing of my previously attempt was a bit of an abberration, as something like this restructuring had been wanted for a while if anyone were bothered to perform it.

So, I got to spend nearly my entire hours of work today separating the fiction from the non-fiction and alphabetising the fiction according to author's last name (or editor, or publisher in one or two rare cases), and by first name in case of identical last names. Made a very cursory start on categorising the non-fiction in the last ten minutes I was there today, into religious, craft, books about stuff, management and economics, life stories, children, history, self-help, and humorus anecdotes, but that did not get very far today.

Am hoping to continue working on that project tomorrow and perhaps next week too. Get non-fiction sorted, further organise fiction by publication order within author, nicen up the presentation some more.

Some customers who saw me organising the books asked about particular genres. The staff member who initiated this said it would be too much trouble to determine the genres of all those books for sorting them that way too. I think it would not be so hard, and not even require much reading of the promotional copy in many cases, but do think there is not the space available for such an undertaking, not and have it remain intact usefully long. At least working more closely with the books have given me a better working knowledge of what is in there, so as to more usefully field questions from customers.