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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Is this normal? *rant*
One of my supervisors is retiring at the end of the week, so being a small city library, management spent the last month trying to get someone into the position. Enter my coworker. He graduated in December with his MLIS, but spends most of his time trying to see just how far up the director's backside he can get - this means he's away from the reference desk, and leaves more work for those of us up front. It's common to hear the phone ringing, look up to see if he'll answer, and realize he's not there. You guessed it, he's the guy they hired to take over the new slot being made by the supervisor's retirement.
I guess my question is this: why do those who do nothing but suck up to the boss get hired into positions they have no business being in? It's infuriating, and to my knowledge, no effort was put forth to look outside the library and possibly find someone more qualified for the job.
Re: Is this normal? *rant*
Also, it is almost always beneficial to hire from within in a library setting. I recently moved into my first management position (also a public librarian) and even though I was not the most qualified for the job, knowledge of the culture, programs, automation, and policies counted for a lot and is, ultimately, why I was hired over external candidates. And, if he was the only qualified internal applicant I can see why he was hired.
At this point, you'll just have to let it go. Your director made his choice, for better or worse. If he's as horrible as you think it won't take your director long to find that out. Or, maybe he's better suited to his new position and will surprise everyone.
But, I understand why you are irritated. I've never experienced it but my husband has been passed over for jobs under similar circumstances.
It is also true, the best jobs to be had in libraries are usually in smaller, more rural towns. They drove it into our brains in graduate school (I graduated in 07) that in order to find a job, you'd have to be willing to move. Most of my classmates are scattered throughout the country. I'm one of the few that found a full time job in our area.