What was your ‘antiwork’ tipping point?

I work as a supervisor in a library.

Manage all day-to-day things, step in when the director is out, manage the full staff, do PR, the whole shebang basically comes down to me and my operations. I was told because I am not a librarian (Masters Needed), I am pay capped and can be paid no higher. Basically top of my field for non-librarians in library work for my state.

I was put under the gun for a number of things including 'getting too much comp time' for covering team absences, not doing work 'on time' (never missed a deadline), 'gossiping' (no more than any other supervisor), and a multitude of other things that are all non-sensical but serve to keep my reviews low enough that they can't approve raises for me.

Enter stage left: Patricia

Patricia is about 50. She was hired after me for running the programs of the building. All she does is book the people, and after that her job is basically done other than updating the website to reflect that the event will be happening.

Patricia can do no wrong. She also comes and goes as she pleases, lies on her timesheet, cannot troubleshoot any problems, dumps every piece of work she can manage on other people (including making copies of a calendar - guess who that ended up on), and is just an all around fuck up. She has no planning ability, and cannot grasp simple computer things. I'm talking one time at a meeting she asked the person explaining to 'hold on' because 'she needed to sketch the power button on the camera or she would forget how to turn it on'.

Every iota of work she does is wrong, has to be re-checked and done. It is well known in our library that she is utterly useless and cannot be expected to do anything. Every little thing requires an e-mail request with our boss CC'd. If we don't do as she asks, we get brought to the office and chewed out. I've been threatened to be fired three times for trying to address the problems this one woman causes. We literally don't know what she gets paid to do. I gave up trying to fix it.

Patricia gets paid about 35k more than I do. My director makes over 100k.

I decided to only do the work assigned to me, and I don't come in extra. We're also debating trying to form a union because our work has gotten so bad. I guess that's what you get for working in a conservative town with a boss who is -super- liberal (except when it comes to her workers). I guess we don't count.

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