Not worth the frustration - Learning Commons Dallas College Employee Review

- Leadership is consistently terrible at communicating and most of them seem to be on a perpetual power trip. Most of them are extremely unprofessional or they're seemingly too afraid to stand up to those who try getting away with speaking and treating their employees like criminals for caring. They tend to look down on their employees rather than trying to lift them up. - Very low morale across the board. Everyone in my department has a sort of 'spark beaten out of them' that translates to doing the bare minimum, not caring about the job, not trying new things or wanting to improve anything - Communication at every level is horrible. Immediate supervisors all the way to the top, the College as a whole never sends updates and everyone is constantly confused and in the dark, even with important things like annual reviews that directly affect our pay - You are discouraged from being innovative, from asking clarifying questions, from wanting to try new things, from healthy criticism (improvements are based on fixing broken systems right?), from being anything other than a yes man who keeps their head down, clocks in and clocks out and goes home without making a sound. - The pay is pretty pathetic. I've also heard that the College is doing shady stuff financially and there's some lawsuits investigating this. Which is a huge source of frustration given that they pay us so little yet we pay out of pocket for cleaning supplies like dish soap and paper towels, stationary like sticky notes and pens, plastic cutlery, kleenex, things for events, they don't even provide coffee for God's sake. Yet the budget is an ever elusive thing that no one talks about, no one can ask questions about and no one ever knows the status of. - There isn't a checks and balances in place for leadership. HR is chiefly concerned with protecting the image of the College, not you. Expect retaliation if you even try holding leadership accountable for unprofessional and upsetting behavior. - It truly is almost impossible to get anything done around here. Facilities requests, HR requests, IT requests, even just trying to talk to other departments, no one believes in emailing back! Requests are marked as complete when they aren't! Nothing gets fixed unless you go to store and buy your own things and fix it yourself. Everyone pushes things off to someone else and nothing ever happens. - The lack of support is excruciating. They won't fund conference attendances, they won't give you office furniture beyond the bare essentials, they won't offer ways to grow within the company, they leave you in the dark about everything, there is no training - sink or swim, everyone has PTSD from the mass layoffs when DCCCD turned into Dallas College and no one wants to upset their respective supervisors so if you do anything out of the norm, they'll try shutting it down before you can even blink. Inconsistent information, policies, procedures. Everything is extremely slow to get in motion. - So scared of "ruffling feathers" that they bend at any potentially uncomfortable situation. No more DEI, no more Black History Month or Pride Month or Banned Books Week or anything considered "controversial" because they would rather not take a stance than take one that might upset a hypothetical 'someone' except not taking a stance, not joining in on these celebrations -- that IS a stance. And it's the wrong one. - Overall a very frustrating, demoralizing institution to work for.