Pros
- Great vacation time/sick time & benefits
- Generous 403(b) match and contributory program
- Excellent healthcare and dental
- Fun campus atmosphere
- Students that want to be there, getting you excited for work and always offering a fresh perspective
Cons
- Management is reluctant to take input from suboordinates seriously, even when they are out in the field and face to face with prospects, parents, and the general public,
- Management has unrealistic expectations given current political and social climate. They expect everything to remain the same, and do not acknowledge the challenges facing students entering into and trying to navigate higher education in the current socioeconomic/political system.
- Unwillingness to negotiate or even discuss raises, regardless of experience or attainment of additional credentials.
- Decieving "1 free class per semester" benefit. The class will not be free due to additional "fees" or mystery costs not covered by your employee benefit. Employees who would need to take classes online are often completely ineligible.
- Blatant favoritism within departments. Some suboordinates are given special privileges (leaving early 2-3 days a week, refusing to/making excuses as to why they can't perform certain parts of their job and having management make excuses for them, being granted hybrid/wfh privileges while others are required to be in office 5 days a week, etc), while other coworkers are left to pick up their slack.
- No reward for high performance (bonuses, raises, recognition, etc.), and a complete dismissal from leadership when a suboordinate asks to have an open and candid conversation,
- A culture that drives away high performers due to lack of recognition, support, or valuable/tangible feedback.
I was also witness to the director of a department swearing loudly in their office on several occasions while on Zoom, and conducting themselves in an unprofessional manner (yelling, swearing) during a one on one meeting with a suboordinate.