More threats…

Boobie sent me an email ordering me to fill in the schedule in the manner demanded by Miserly by noon that day or I would be insubordinate and there “would be consequences.” When I asked her what she was talking about – what was meant by insubordinate and what consequences, she threatened to “set my schedule.” When I asked her repeatedly what she meant, she refused to answer me.

Another example of excellent management skills!

Insubordinate?

All I have ever heard here is that one faculty member cannot supervise another faculty member and so I am very confused about Miserly accusing me of being insubordinate. Don’t I first have to be subordinate? Where does it say that I have to do what he tells me to do? If he told me I had to wash his car and I said “No”, would I be insubordinate? I have asked him for clarification of this point and he just forwards a section of the CBA that does not address the question, in any way?

Maybe he thinks that he is in charge of Library since he has been there the longest? All that means is that he realized along the way that he would never be hired anywhere else – so seize that security!

But What if You Commit a Crime?

Summer time is supposed to be a quiet time, a time to catch up on your work. But here it is just another chapter in the “you need to do what I say” saga. Miserly came by to share more arguments with me on why I must fill in schedules in the manner prescribed by him. The newest “rationale” include:

• What if you told your husband that you were going to work and he couldn’t find you there? (We may have bigger problems? Cell phone?)
• What if you commit a crime (like my predecessor?) – the police would need to see when you were working.
• The state would need to see your hours if there was an audit.

He is obviously getting desperate for me to submit to his will. It is comical. He is so determined that the Library continue to operate in the same manner in did in 1967 that he is irrational and ridiculous.

Schedules Again

Along with his other harassing behaviors, Miserly has taken to harping on the filling in of the many faculty schedules. (Previous Post) He knows that everyone finds it to be annoying and time consuming and unnecessary and that seems to fuel his nagging. Not a week goes by that we don’t hear: “Don’t forget to fill in the schedule!”, “Did you fill in the schedule?” “Fill in the schedule.” “Make sure you fill in the schedule the way I want you to!” The amount of time that he spends checking who has fulfilled their duty makes one wonder what else he has to do? Not much?

Since the schedule is logically unneeded and redundant, I have chosen to withdraw from the process and have notified the “others” that if they need to know where I am, check my fully filled in and available Outlook schedule, the only one I will be keeping up to date.

Regulating the Lights

Miserly’s office happens to sit between Doc’s and mine in Library. This is okay since I can often see him coming and shut my door and pretend to be on the phone. When it becomes a problem is when he tells Doc and me to turn our lights off when we are out and on when we are in???

It is a bit creepy that he is watching us to this extent and really weird that he thinks it is appropriate to tell us what to do with our lights!

Poster Session

I had a proposal for a poster at a regional meeting accepted. I did the work, submitted the proposal, designed and implemented the poster with literature to explain the material. At the last minute I could not attend the poster session (due to a family emergency) so I arranged to have the poster presented by a coworker.

Miserly came to my office and in a truly patronizing and condescending manner informed me that if I could not have presented my poster, I should never have submitted a proposal! I was shocked (why you ask?) since this matter was none of his business and he had no right to address me in such a manner. His anger is bubbling to the surface in an ugly way, harassment…

That was not helpful…

“You should not talk to your co-workers about disagreements that you encounter at work!”

That is what Miserly came to “share” with me today. It is not helpful to try to discuss problems with others. Attempting to build a consensus or reach understanding is not to be done. You must be quiet and just suck it up. I see a pattern here…

Territorial Library Issues…

I notified Library faculty of a discipline-specific web resource that I was presenting to some faculty. I requested that Bully-boy link to the resource on the library website main page. He refused to do that and essentially buried it several layers deep in the website. In a feeble attempt to (not) solve the conflict, Miserly and Boobie suggested that the site stay where it was, but changing the names of the links to it might help?? I pointed out that this would just lead to further confusion for those using the website. This was logically ridiculous and unhelpful and I proceeded to appeal to other faculty members who stuck their heads elsewhere to avoid taking a stand.

Blog Censorship!

Miserly ordered me to remove an entry on the Library blog – I have to wonder how he even knew it was there. He insisted the blog was stupid, yet he or someone who wishes to remain anonymous is monitoring it?

We actually had a level of participation that was generating some real conversation on the blog – that was probably the problem? I posted an entry that was an effort to discuss what kind of librarian Library might hire in the future. It was not an attempt to draft a position description but an attempt at communication and dialogue, brainstorming, thinking together about the future. Miserly told me that this discussion with staff was prohibited by the CBA (it is not) and I must remove the blog entry. His aggressive insistence ended the open communication experiment – as I am sure was his intension!