LIS Grievances

So leadership has started censoring programs. First it was a Black author talk during Black History Month. And now it’s a Pride program during Pride Month. But yet they stand for intellectual freedom and represent all viewpoints from the community. 🙄

Librarianship isn't rocket science. It's not even library science. Fight me. ***Away from Twitter for self care. Contact me via my website.***

She has allegedly onboarded them but they don’t seem to know what to do or how to do anything and she wouldn’t help them beyond pointing to a very old manual and outdated documentation.

Spent half the week helping new people learn processes and our crappy software and manager doesn't consider that work and asked what I did all week even when they told her I was helping them and were grateful.

If you seek opportunities but get upset when other orgs steal "your" people, check your keeping. It's only considered stealing when the good ones seek better treatment.

Senior library people, instead of making life difficult for junior staff try mentoring them. Try creating a positive legacy and leaving the place better than you found it. It'll take far less effort than the hate and toxicity.

Can library managers ease up on evaluation of shelving and shifting for pages - everyone can make mistakes from time to time - it's the ones who learn from them are the keepers - who can sustain a great level of accuracy for four hours + per day?

Librarian for STEM subjects. These old white scientists truly believe they are God's gift to mankind. I'm sick of liaising with them and constantly being undermined and belittled.

Waiting for Major Library Award categories like "the underminer," "the credit stealer" and "the professional self-promoter."

Aww, you’re finally feeling the ripple effect from the bad decisions you made during my onboarding. Suck it up, cupcakes. You’re still making the wrong choices & blowing off the opportunities to do better.

It's been a while since I messaged y'all but I needed to get this off my chest...why are so many LibGuides disorganized and hard to read? :/

Softlaunching is such an utter disease at academic libraries. Betrays a total mealymouthed lack of confidence in your own ideas. No wonder we struggle so much to be taken seriously.

Current management found out I am applying for other jobs and things are more toxic than ever. My org pays the most in my field in my area so was already kind of trapped if I don't want to move out of town and now it is 100% worse.

I don’t know how copyright paranoid some of you are— but if someone wants to upload the ebook of Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces (Routledge 2022) to Libgen, the aggrieved community would probably be very appreciative

Help. I need to get the F out of libraries. My introverted neurodivergent brain thrives when I can work from home. What can I do? Any library defectors out there who still follow this account? Any suggestions? 🙃

Boss: your programs look easy, they barely count as work, try to push yourself. Me: I'm taking a week off. Boss: WE ARE POWERLESS TO COVER FOR YOUR COMPLEX SPECIALTY EVENTS

I can’t with this library anymore. It’s too tough holding this all together on my own..can’t even use my vacation days anymore when I want to killing my joy.

Having a real 15 pieces of flair kind of day

Interviewer: why did you leave your previous library job? My 🧠: toxic work environment brought on by the mayor's town polices and insistent on hiring people who think libraries equate to blockbuster.

M(former)POW is filling several positions, and I wish that I could publicly post "DO NOT WORK FOR XYZ. Terrible administration, bullies, burnt colleagues, no budget, unbelievable bureaucracy, and poor culture of communication and collaboration."