Today's events have been months in the making and, unfortunately, they weren't pretty. It all started when my last coworker quit working the library. when Ereman left, he took a Marvel Comics art book with the understanding that he would be bringing it back when he finished the drawing he was working on. For the past month I have been asking him to bring the book back, hearing that someone else was borrowing it, never a name attached.
Early this week a friend told me someone was trying to send out a Marvel book through the mail. When I went to identify it, the spine had our tape and the interior has the same smears. Unfortunately, it had been stripped of all ,marks that identified it with the library. A hold was still put on the book, though.
Today, someone brought in a stack of his books to be donated to the library and said that the one on top belonged to Ereman. I said he would have to bring us our book before he could take his. Even trade (except his is a $6 paperback and ours, the Marvel Comics Encyclopedia, is a $30 coffee table book.) Later, one of Ereman's coworkers in the commissary came to pick up Ereman's book.
I'm sorry he put you in the middle of this but Ereman has one of our books that he needs to bring back before he gets his," I explained. The guy sighed and shook his head before leaving as if to say "What kind of stupidity is this? Over a book?" Yeah, it is fairly petty.
A few minutes later Ereman himself showed up for the book I told him the same thing: we need our book first.
"You either give me my book or get yourself in the hall so I can beat your a**, mother-f*****r.," he shouted in the crowded library while holding the door open. It seemed as if he was just trying to make a scene and a fool out of himself.
"Watch how you talk to my worker," came the command from my petite boss. Ereman then launched into a verbal assault on her before turning back to me and demanding his book again upon threat of a beating.
"Just give him the book," my boss sighed, ready to see Ereman leave.
I handed the book to him and watched him leave. Moments later my boss was on the phone calling in the incident. Two sergeants came to get the story form my boss before calling for Ereman to be sent tot the security office and getting my story in the hallway. Shortly afterward, I saw a cart with Ereman's stuff being taken to segregation to meet its owner.
I don't know what the end result will be, but I hope Ereman wakes up to his own short fuse and deals with it in an appropriate manner. A quick temper never leads to good places. I don't think we'll get the Marvel Encyclopedia back, but it is a small price to pay if Ereman is able to change. Please pray that the situation is redeemed according to God's will.
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