Avantages
Slightly better pay than other library systems in the area
Inconvénients
Where to begin. Management sets you up for failure at every step. They don't care about staff well being or safety. They make a big deal about consensus and leadership but they just at best ignore anyone who is not one of the administrators. The benefits are a joke. Management is generally petty. Management and admin will say offensive things and try to play them off as jokes frequently. Most staff are afraid to go forward to HR about it because staff that do have been retaliated against. Pay raises do not match inflation and are 2-3% at the highest end. part time staff are treated like garbage. Public service staff are rarely consulted about changes made that affect their jobs and are micromanaged by a very top heavy administration. Some branches have as many as 4 managers all in an open floor plan that spend all their time looking over your shoulder second guessing every action you take. System wide management will frequently give directions to staff that contradict what their supervisor tells them. Internal communication is either inaccurate and inconsistent across departments, or in too much detail and not relevant. A staff member was followed home by a patron and threatened, the patron was not banned. Another staff member was groped by a patron and management stated that it was the way she was dressed and she should've been more aware. Admin are fairly clueless and when forced to interact with the public take it out on public service staff. No matter what staff do or how well they do their jobs management will never have your back and will throw you under the bus to avoid looking bad. Major decisions are left up to meetings of manager groups that are unqualified and frankly idiotic, they spent most of the time in the weeds and arguing aboutthings that are not the problem, expand the project well beyond the original scope, come out with a half baked plan and throw it to the staff to figure out and make it work. Then when if fails they blame the workers and take credit to their bosses for their great plan. Also, they handled the Covid 19 crisis very poorly and furloughed staff despite having a large reserve in place to keep staff on. It is instead being spend on the second remodel of the central library in 5 years.