- You applied for a job for which you qualified and were never
contacted for an interview.
- An library manager or administrator discouraged you from applying
for a job, a promotion, or a demotion you qualified for.
- You interviewed for a job which you later found out had already
been given to a library administrator’s favorite.
- You were offered a job, a transfer, or a promotion that a library
administrator later rescinded.
- You were passed over for a promotion for which you applied, and
someone less qualifed than you was hired or promoted instead.
- A library administrator did not hire you for a promotion even
for reasons that had nothing to do with your qualifications--for
example, because you "have moved around the library too much" or
because you “are doing well in the position you are already in."
- A library administrator told you that you could not apply for a
voluntary demotion.
- A library administrator transferred or demoted you due to the
administrator’s race, sex, or age prejudice.
- A library trustee told you that your employment at a particular
facility was not "appropriate," despite your qualifications.
- You applied for a job at Auburn Avenue Research Library and found
out later that someone less qualified was hired instead.
- Your supervisor asked you to sign a blank job evaluation form.
- Your job evaluation was tampered with after you signed it.
- You know of someone who was were informally offered or promised a
job before a vacancy was announced.
- You know of someone who got his/her job because they knew a
particular library trustee.
- You know of someone who was given a higher beginning salary than
others hired into the same job class.
- A library administrator or the library system’s Human Resource
Office gave you incorrect or contradictory information about which job
vacancies you qualifed for.
- Your supervisor has given special privileges to some employees but
not others, apparently basing that preferential treatment on the
employees’ race, sex, or age.
- You were part of an interview team instructed by a library
administrator to use stock phrases to justify choosing a successful
job candidate or to justify not choosing another candidate.
- You served on an interview team whose selection of the top
candidate was ignored or overturned by a library administrator or by
the board of trustees.
- You were part of an interview team required by a library
administrator to conduct a new round of interviews after your team--or
another one--had chosen a qualified applicant.
- You were part of an interview team that was told to give special
treatment to a single applicant, such as allowing that person
(but not other candidates) to interview a second time.
- A library manager or administrator disclosed to someone else
confidential information about a disciplinary actions taken against
you or about your medical condition.
- A library trustee has inspected your employment file without your
permission.
- A library administrator promised you a salary or class upgrade
for manditorily increased duties that you never received.
- A library administrator assigned “Acting Manager” duties to you
for a period exceeding the time the county allows an employee to serve
as an Acting Manager before being appointed permanently as manager,
or told you after your having served as an Acting Manager for an
extended period that you that you would not be allowed to compete with
others to fill the job permanently?
- You have been assigned to supervise someone else’s "problem
employee," been given no administrative guidance or support, and then
blamed by a library administrator for that employee’s continued
unsatisfactory performance.
- You have been forbidden to work at a certain work location in
the library, such as the Central Library.
- You work for a supervisor who you’d heard was not supposed to
be allowed to supervise employees again.
- You work in a department that so many employees are trying to get
out of that the county’s Employee Relations Office has had to
investigate.
- You were blamed, reprimanded, suspended, or demoted as a scapegoat
for someone else's oversight, mistake, or decision.
- You were transferred to a different work site to solve
a personnel problem an administrator had involving another employee.
- You were permanently given additional work tasks that had
previously been assigned to someone working in a higher job
classification.
- You were transferred to another work site because you objected
to being assigned tasks for which you were not qualified or had zero
experience in performing.
- You have been passed over for promotions or otherwise retaliated
against because you filed a grievance or participated in a lawsuit
against the library.
- A library administrator asked you when you were "planning on
retiring."
- A library administrator asked you to "start looking for another
job."
- Mary Kaye Hooker or any other library administrator has threatened
you, verbally abused you, or humiliated you in front of other library
employees.
- Mary Kaye Hooker or any other library official or library trustee
has sexually harassed you.
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