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[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

#critlib A3 A4 ALA should do more for library workers without the MLIS or with foreign degrees. Get more involved in organizing, labor unions, student debt. Make sure there are consequences for bad actors in management and degree programs

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

#critlib A1 A2 I've never been part of ALA. ALA and regional associations have done nothing to help me. Don't see the point of giving them any of my time or money

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

#critlib I'm an unemployed library worker. I have been without a job for two years. I'm at risk and I'm afraid of loosening restrictions and cancelled mask mandates.

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

this culminated in the announcement of impending layoffs and it just felt like the ultimate kick while you're down. It's not that there's zero rationale for it--but tossing out yet another thing for ppl to be uncertain about has been devastating for many of us. 2/2 #LibRev

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

A5: Our institutional leadership has changed in a couple dramatic ways since the pandemic began & it's hard to imagine any kind of change at that scale during this time going well, but this has been a rocky road of increasingly scary stuff that is just crushing morale 1/ #LibRev

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

My boss bullied me into asking about HR accommodations which would've required disclosing my mental illness to MAYBE get 1 more day a week to WFH. I didn't pursue it because it didn't even feel worth it. #LibRev

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

Wondering if I shot myself in the foot in an interview last week. ? was hardest thing in my professional career. I said last six months, trying to be safe for staff & patrons, researching state guidelines and speaking up about them. #LibRev

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

In MA. I am the crazy one on staff who expects us to follow state guidelines. Director says since they are only guidelines, we don’t need to follow them. Coworker has meltdowns bc I keep 6 ft distance. I’m on edge constantly and walk on eggshells at work. #LibRev

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

Here's your #critpitch reminder to see the #SaveSCSU_Library hashtag, sign the petition https://t.co/Wb4GyCAH4B & see https://t.co/jghdeWYl1t to support St. Cloud State librarians being laid off. #critlib

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

#critlib I have seen this as well. Manager encourages conflict and competition, treats staff unfairly, has an 'in crowd' and an 'out crowd.' Before they know it everyone is elbowing for position, desperate to win favor. https://t.co/zxdLHAxnEZ

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

Toxicity is highly contagious. Even the normally positive employees can get dragged into the environment and then start being perceived by others as part of the problem and not a possible part of the solution #critlib

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

#critlib Sometimes it is a person or persons. I walked into a job with racists, anti-semites, and Islamaphobia. 3 against 1 until I and one more got hired. Then it was 4 against 2.

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

#critlib Q4 Sometimes there's no one person at fault. Sometimes there is. When you have most of your team trying to work on the broken relationships, and one person insisting that none of it will work and everything should stay the same, that person might just be your problem.

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

A4. This is a hard question, because I've never been in a toxic workplace where the boss wasn't the main culprit. #critlib

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

Reflecting on my own workplace, I'm realizing there are many aspects that would qualify as toxic, but there's also a lot of autonomy granted to individuals. Curious how others see these coexisting? #critlib

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

#critlib Q2: The toxic environment/relationships make it impossible to make progress on any 'real' problems (that is, problems not being generated for their own sake by said toxic relationships) by sucking up all the air and draining those involved.

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

#critlib Q1: First and foremost, mistrust. When an employee sees colleagues as competitors, sees success as a zero sum game, and thus feels threatened when colleagues succeed and acts under the assumption that others feel the same.

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

#critlib I'm anonymous tonight. I'm in the process of applying for a job at a university library, and feeling some fear because I've heard universities can be pretty difficult environments to work in.

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

#critlib unsure what time it is for you. But this is definitely a good topic to be discussing. Anyone been on the receiving end of a "freeze out" by colleagues?

[anonymous critlib @critlib_anon]

And your regular #critpitch reminder to see the #SaveSCSU_Library hashtag and go to https://t.co/jghdeWYl1t for suggestions on how to exercise solidarity with St. Cloud State librarians being laid off. #critlib