Career Help and Advice

You want more out of your job and that is nothing you should be attacked for.... The worst they should do is (if they want to hire someone else) just simply hire someone else, and give you a reason why and be nice about it. Attacking you for simply responding to an internal job posting in any form is unprofessional and unproductive.

As far as contacting HR, I guess you should if she was being mean. That kind of behavior should be addressed. As far as conflict of interest, I'm not sure I understand you on that one. Her interest is on staffing the library and that does not seem to be a conflict if she is in charge of the library. Nevertheless, I support YOU 100%, if they are not offering you 40hrs at your current job.