Not Worth the Prestige - Program Coordinator UCLA Employee Review

1.0
Jul 12, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits of healthcare, dental and vision and Holiday.

Cons

Workplace violence and abuse is common place here. If you are brought in to bring "change" they will allow your colleagues to mistreat you, sabotage your projects and violate you without a word, even when you have documentation. Central HR and North/South HR will say they are there for you but they are not. They will brush your complaints under the rug while attaching anonymous complaints to you. Further, management is weak and you will hear "manage up" from everyone as this is the culture. They will expect you to work through lunch and way past 8 hours a day because you are salary. No department talks to the other and creates more work than you get paid for. Projects takes 5-20 years to complete due to incompetence and lack of adhesion between the schools and departments. Pay is well below the industry average.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Relatively poor pay and pay inequities. Extremely poor fiscal management - that CFO who was fired for outing it was spot on. Senior administrators and faculty are incentivized to spend a lot of money on things that serve few students and hoard resources to make themselves look good for performance reviews and tenure committees, but it means a lot of extra work gets dumped on a growing a number of mid-level administrators and support staff - who now face layoffs or added workloads. It's all strangling the university's ability to serve its students, but I know several faculty members simply don't care about students or teaching.

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