Pros
Employees play a vital role in the community helping those in need, work is interesting and challenging, and co-workers are a comfort when the chips are down.
Cons
Bureaucracy at its worst! There are few to no opportunities for advancement unless you remain silent and go along with everything the CEO says, there are no opportunities for professional development, staff rotate so frequently that it's like a revolving door, and the CEO is annihilistic and is destroying the agency from the inside out. The agency has been financially unstable for years and has gotten progressively worse. A long-term manager was recently let go for supposed financial reasons but is getting paid to not work while at the same time others have gotten raises for assuming her duties. It was a political removal of someone that actually knew what she was doing and was respected by staff, co-workers, and others. She was a threat so she had to be removed. That's the way it works ... get in his way or dare to disagree and you will be removed. A good CEO does not fear intelligence, experience, and knowledge, he embraces it. Not at Horizon. He puts on a good charade for the board and outsiders but staff see the truth. He does not care that his impulsive decisions have detrimental consequences for the agency, wasting time and money and other resources. He doesn't listen and lies under pressure to preserve his delusions of grandeur. With the hours we devote to work, working for a dictator is unbearable, putting strain on us, our health and our families. There is nothing worse than having a bad boss. It makes your time in the office really painful. It makes getting up in the morning tough.