Pros
I worked as a full-time Librarian for several years at the Ocean County Library. While many of my colleagues were excellent people and professionals, the management team was consistantly dysfunctional and unprofessional. The state benefits are very good but employee contribution costs rise each year due to state change and minimal salary raises.
Cons
Upper management routinely shouted at and berated each other and support staff, hired friends to high-level positions and lowered staff morale by instituting poor policy changes. There was very little to enjoy at this job professionally. While professional development was strong under the former director, it is almost non-existant under the current management team. Heavy-handed upper management. Terrible HR department (confidentiality is routinely breached and hiring practices are borderline illegal). High turnover in professional and support roles. Drug users in many of the branches and security/staff safety is of very little concern to management (dispite verbal promises). Police now frequent the Toms River branch due to gang activity and heroin abuse. Multiple locations have seen arrests in the last year.