Pros
Potentially great coworkers, depending on the location.
Cons
This organization is run by a toxic administration that has only gotten worse under the current leadership. If you bring any concerns to their attention, they will lie and gaslight you instead of fixing or improving anything. DML's initial response to the COVID pandemic was commendable, but steadily waned. Frontline staff received inconsistent support when confronted by abusive patrons, sometimes even getting blamed and punished for the abuse they received. To that end, a member of the administration lied about the existence of mask mandates even while we were under two (city and state) simultaneously. COVID protections gradually fell by the wayside until the administration made the ableist decision to lift mask requirements just as the Omicron variant was ramping up. Visitors were not required to mask during the entire Omicron wave, ensuring that the library was an unsafe space for the most vulnerable people in the community we are meant to serve. This is not too surprising, considering the agnotological approach to leadership within the organization's upper management. This is the same approach that led members of the library's administration to ignore repeated OSHA violations at several branches. Eventually, they issued a statement claiming that library employees are not covered by OSHA, but rather by an organization called PERRP. This is a lie of omission, as they conveniently left out the fact that enforcing OSHA standards for public employees is literally what PERRP does. All of this took a huge toll on my mental health. I had over a thousand hours of sick time saved up, so I tried to schedule a few mental health days. My manager had even suggested I do this. Shortly after I placed the request, I was told that I couldn't use sick time for mental health days, and would have to use vacation time instead. This review could go on for quite a while, so I'll just say this: Seek employment literally anywhere else.