Control Freak Supervisers (and the Lesbian Dwarves who stalk them--Tonight on Geraldo!)

I recently received this email from a higher-ranking co-worker. Phrases in brackets mine for clarity/emphasis.

Hi,

Don't be surprised when you come in to find the cart of travel books [which you spent the better part of an hour pulling from the shelf] missing. We put them back out to be reshelved [you know, just to make more work for you]. Because we're a small branch we really do not want so many books [maybe like 40 in a collection of over 2,000 items] missing from our shelves, even if it's only for a day. Most of our customers here are browsers and if they don't see it on the shelf, they will not check out [even though there's only 3 other librarians here, who all know where to find travel books if a customer asks--your desk]. Please feel free to use the laptop for collection maintenance, you can take it out on the floor [another thing you'll have to learn]. I'll review procedures with you the next time you're in or Nancy can on Monday night.[Even though we don't want to take on the responsability of training you or being your home branch, we still want to hold your hand while doing something as basic as collection maintenance].


Also, one of our customers complained that we had no travel books on New York or New England so we specifically requested these through the blog, so please do not withdraw these titles even though they may be slightly older [you have to keep obsolete travel books, even though we have newer ones on the same geographic regions, which is poor customer service, just because I say so].

Thanks
*control freak superviser*

Do I *really* want to shill out money for an M.L.S.?