Pros
Good location. The building looks great from the outside. My coworkers are nice, hard-working people. There's an annual bonus based on performance.
Cons
People are leaving and there positions aren't being filled again due to budget contraints. That leaves the rest of us to not only do our own jobs, but to pick up the slack of the lucky ones who left. If you get promoted to a new position, you'll be expected to continue helping out in your old position for an indefinite amount of time. They don't even give you the courtesy of asking if you'd like to help out. The pay is absolutely terrible. The cost of living continues to increase, yet we do not get cost of living increases in our wages. Many of my coworkers are having trouble paying rent, utilities, etc. Two weeks of vacation time is given when you start your career here. Good luck getting any time off though. My department, like most has a rule that if one person has the day off then no one else can take that same day. Meanwhile, you will hear upper management bragging about their 3rd trip to Hawaii or how they are going to jet off to California for a long weekend. Oh, and working the day after Christmas was just awesome. Thanks for that. Career development doesn't exist. Oh yes, they make us fill out a development plan every year just to appease HR, however we are all too busy to devote any time to actually accomplishing anything on that plan. The place is run down. Again, I'm sure to budget contraints. But seriously, can I please have a chair where the wheels aren't falling off? Real communication doesn't exist. I want to know what's happening in those conference rooms with the closed doors. All the whispering drives me crazy. Technology needs an upgrade. Also, one computer monitor! Really? It's archaeic, enough said.
