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RUN..... - Library Technician DC Public Library Employee Review

1.0
Jan 15, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Can be rewarding if you feel fulfilled engaging the community or working with students.

Cons

blatantly RACIST, when you speak out about harassment, hostile work environment, or uncivil behavior from management you are rewarded with retaliation via a senseless transfer to remote branches , they promote young white women to management positions who have no qualifying skills for management besides an MLIS , other internal promotions are pretty much non-existent, they hire externally and make you train the new unqualified hires, very top heavy structure with no accountability for admin and management, management can literally lie about your overall work ethic, record it permanently in your one-sided annual review, and it absolutely will be used to judge you for future positions despite what your'e told, no regard for work life balance, if you are a single parent with young children you will work very late often and you will work on weekends often, no security, if you are a woman you are fully allowed to be sexually harassed by belligerent, only an actual attack warrants a "safety officer", filthy place to work, mice infestations, mosquito infestations, roaches, ants, discriminates against students and black workers, no actual upwards mobility, if you do not posses a degree you are treated like an idiot, pay sucks.. i don't know why people are scoring this agency so highly

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