recreation leader

librarian

administrative assistant

senior supervisor

senior hvac technician

Hillsborough County, FL

They will tell you that your safety and comfort is important and to only do things you're comfortable with and ask for help. 

When you do, you will be chastised and they will retaliate to complaints about poor training and lack of safety by telling you YOU are the problem... but you won't hear it from the management directly. You'll only find out why you're being punished when a random ACA tells you what they heard through gossip. 

Stress is HIGH.  Saftey is LOW. You are trained by people who have no business training anyone, and then they overwork you, all while telling you to your face that you should take a break and avoid burnout. 

If you do... expect to be gossiped about and become the blacksheep. (Another ACA is the blacksheep, but they have no problem having more than one.)

EVERYONE is two-faced. No one is honest. Everyone slacks, and then says they "don't have time" when they fall behind. Why? Because they're gossiping with eachother instead of maintaining their area. 

Pay is a joke for the work you do. The benefits are touted as being great, but you can't even access most of them your first year. You have to be there for a YEAR to get accommodations for medical stuff. 

You will be trained poorly. You will end up being dragged into the endless negativity. You will not be valued. You will be overworked. You will be underpaid. 

I work for Library Services.
Pros:
-Great step out of retail/food service industries
-We do community work that matters
-Kinda cool to say you work at a library
-Pay and benefits are decent, not great, not bad.
-Work is usually straightforward
-Some locations have laidback workflow (but you might be waiting a while to get in there)

Cons:
-Not many growth opportunities
-Internal applicants often treated worse than external for hiring
-Too much covering shifts at other libraries that are far away from main work location
-Usually understaffed everywhere
-Some library locations will give you literal PTSD from life-threatening situations with unstable customers
-Non-managers are not trusted
-Workplace is becoming more hostile towards diversity and representation. If you want to see representation and respect for diverse cultures, beliefs, genders, and sexualities, you will probably feel frustrated. Ditto if you are someone who is not cisgender and heterosexual.
-Mandatory Hurricane Shelter Service: if a hurricane comes near Tampa, you are stuck running a shelter until it's completely over. Everyone hates it and many break down from how stressful and exhausting it is. New hires are not warned enough about how terrible this part of the job is and management threatens to fire people who do not show up for it.

There are many more miserable jobs than working here but upper management has taken a decent workplace and run it off the rails this past year so it's hard to recommend it now.

 Ove the last 4 years the Office of Emergency Management has gone through over 20 people with a staff of about 18.  Please use this information to your discretion.

Hillsborough County Office of Emergency Management underscored how significantly leadership influences workplace culture. While the mission of the organization is meaningful and the team includes many dedicated professionals, I found the overall environment challenging due to leadership dynamics.

In particular, the director’s management style contributed to low morale and a tense work atmosphere. Communication often felt top-down, with limited opportunity for open dialogue or collaborative problem-solving. This made it difficult for staff to feel fully supported or empowered in their roles.

Emergency management requires strong teamwork, trust, and mutual respect. I believe that with more transparent communication, consistent leadership practices, and a stronger emphasis on employee engagement, the organization could better support its talented staff and strengthen overall performance.

For those considering employment here, it is important to carefully evaluate whether the leadership structure and culture align with your professional values and work style.

Let me start off with saying that  the residents are to die for there so amazing,loving and they really admire you for everything you do!!!!! This is strictly about the unpleasant, unprofessional, disrespectful,money hungry  management !!!! My years being here were PURE CHAOS when it came to the management I’ve never worked for a company who were so dis functional  and has a huge lack of communication . Imagine putting your vacation request months ahead and the day before your supposed to actually go the management DENIES IT due to lack of staff like it’s our responsibility to hire people to work for this terrible company.  The management has no sympathy for you nor for the residents. The residents live terrible there homes are filthy there always running out of supplies and it’s fight to get residents clothes and things there really in need of. There was some days we had to use rags because all 4 houses in a 64 bed facility had not one pack of wipes. The turnover rate is so high that it’s scary and the residents need consistency but 9.00$ an hour for the amount of work you do is simply not gonna cut it . Be mindful that your yearly raise will only be .33 cents so In about 3-4 years you’ll finally be able to make 10.00$ per  hour. I could go on and on about this company, but the person that really lose in this situation is the clients because the staff are being ran off and the people they love the most are disappearing due to the MANAGEMENT!!!!!!

I took the job at Animal Services to get my foot in the door with the County, only to find out that I loved the job. Animal Services was the top Agencies in the State of Florida. Hillsborough County Investigations brought more cases to court and received more convictions then all the other agencies in the State combined. 

Animal Services is noted for the stress caused by animal owners and those making complaints about the neighbors. Add to that the stress cased by the condition we often find the animals living in and uncaring animal owner.  Unlike the local law enforcement, an Animal Control Officer has to control and deal with both ends of the leash.  

The hardest part of the job was the euthanasia of all the unwanted pets. The throw away society we live in is a hard society to cope with when it comes to there pets.

The most enjoyable part of the job is to help someone to learn how to care for there pets. Also to see an abused animal come back to life when given the proper needed care.

Animal Services for the most part was a big family. The Department was small enough for everyone to know each other. Like any family there are fusses that flair up but are resolved quickly for the most part.

Honestly loved my job at first, it’s definitely repetitive work but at the right library with the “right” staff it can be a decent job. There’s little to no training which isn’t helpful when it comes to your first performance evaluation. The management and coworkers also that ruined it for me. Coworkers can be caddy and stir up unnecessary drama for you with the supervisors. One of my supervisors, decided it was okay to yell and berate me in her office less than 2 months at this job. It was completely unprofessional and totally out of line afterwards, I was expected to go back to work and act like nothing happened. Other supervisors tend to pick and choose on what issues they choose to address depending on the person, there’s definitely favoritism. For example, certain “seasoned” coworkers were allowed to be on their phones and have wireless earphones while on the clock however, I was constantly told I couldn’t because I was on the counties time and “I was stealing from the county if I wasn’t working on-task”. The supervisors and management caused me a significant amount stress and discomfort on a daily basis as I felt nothing I ever did was good enough. After several breakdowns and  a year of putting up with the nonsense, I quit and walked away. The benefits and pay were okay but it wasn’t worth my sanity. Overall, wouldn’t recommend.

Full disclaimer, I did not do too much research on this job, but it did not seem like there was much information on it anyway.
First off, the job description makes it seem like so much more than it is. Basically all I’m doing is wading in swamps spraying wetland plants with very loose guidelines. There are some good things about the job, like a relatively relaxed workplace culture, but this is also one if it’s major downfalls. There is no organization, or at least that’s how it seems from my position. We go to a site, spray plants and leave. I get conflicting information from different supervisors about which plants are invasive and what their names are. There is basically no training, or any sustainable planning whatsoever. We use power tools like chainsaws to cut down invasive trees, and the extent of training most people get is “Have you used a chainsaw before? Great” or “Just start it and pull the trigger”. 
No safety training and no tool maintenance. Most of the tools we have sit around in the shop broken or collecting dust because no one knows how to fix them or really cares. Reasonably so when the pay is so little, I guess. All in all, this section of Public Works feels like an afterthought, with little funding and planning going into it. If you value your safety and time, look for a different job.

Arrive to work and clock in depending upon the shift I was working would determine as to what activities were going on. Many times I would arrive and pick up the residents from their day program making sure they were all securely strapped into the van I used to transport them. We'd return to the facility where residents were unloaded and prepared to do personal programs that were set up for them. Dinner came afterward then some free time for different activities. Then showers were given, taking care of all forms of hygiene. and the residents were tucked into bed where a sleeping chart was filled out based off the routine bed checks. I learned a lot of different skills in terms of working with special needs people as well as being reminded to never take the life I have for granted. Management was very casual for the most part. Co-workers ranged from the worst possible employee to the best. It was a revolving door of staff due to the nature of the job. Not everyone likes to sweat and get their hands dirty. The most enjoyable and fulfilling part of this job was being able to help people that could not really help themselves.

I was told that my position would be a foot in the door with the flexibility to apply to other positions internally but I have discovered along with some other co-workers that if you didn't get the job you really wanted when you applied you are stuck. You can apply to any position you want and can be deemed qualified and advised by the system that your application is sent to the hiring manager but you never get called for the interview and then you find that the position was filled later on. To put it plainly if you get hired as a customer service rep you may eventually become a supervisor in that department with the appropriate brown nosing but you will never leave that department. Raises are small and far between regardless of performance as well as promotions within time in rate positions such as those that are technicians. Management wants to see numbers and productivity and they will infer but never directly say you should work off the clock but if you want to be looked upon favorably then show up early and do some work prior to clocking in. The union can't strike so there isn't much the employees can do. If you want a STEADY, unchanging paycheck, benefits that are decent (but their cost rises more than your pay ever will), then perhaps this is a job for you.

A typical day started with receiving overnight reports of any activity from the previous night and the entering of the data into various data bases. I would then meet with my staff to create the days' work load and expectations. Reports would be produced and distributed to various managers and supervisors. I would meet with my Director when she arrived to evaluate and coordinate her daily and immediate needs. The day would be created from those meetings. It could entail; taking minutes at meetings, data entry, creation of new client files, filing, scanning and archiving of old client files, Medicaid billing entry, tracking and follow up of unpaid invoices, creation and approval of payroll data, mid term, disciplinary and/or annual performance reviews, and more.

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Recreation leader 3 salaries reported	$15.00 per hour
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Senior hvac technician 2 salaries reported	$21.98 per hour

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