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No longer a viable place of employment - Anonymous employee Worcester Public Library Employee Review

1.0
10 Jan 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The staff are amazing through out the systems

Cons

Upper management no longer supports any non management staff. Head Librarian does not care about employees, never even talks to them most of the time. Favoritism and retribution are the only management skills any of the upper management use. The Board of Library Directors no longer support staff. Employees' brought many very disturbing issues to them of how intolerable some of the management actions were in the last year and half. They completely chose to ignore the staff and gave the Head Librarian a good review. There is no good reason to work in the institution, it is a toxic environment filled with retribution that is championed on by the Executive Board of Directors

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Cons

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Cons

Admin doesn’t care about staff safety, too many librarians who want to read all day and spend time in their little cliques whispering about other staff members yet they’re the ones constantly getting spoken to about their terrible behavior and shouldn’t be working here. Admin is not transparent. They change things constantly, push you beyond your limits, and glorify job stress equating it with a job well done- wrong, they are making staff have mental health issues. The directors and deputy directors are completely aware of how awful things are here but they collect their six figure salaries, work from home and don’t have to work weekends. They do nothing to support staff. Admin does whatever they want and don’t do any work- they’re in “meetings” all day. Middle management is basically worthless bc they are a group of severely burnt out people because Admin refuses to support them and makes them play back up security with the custodians!

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