Pros
-Select few front office/management personnel are very nice to work with. -Good benefits -Occasional Facility Luncheon -Adiquate (mostly) pay -Interesting and immersive work. -Work rarely becomes routine. Always something new to work with.
Cons
-A very noticeable segregation between technicians and engineering/management staff. -Management is ingrained and unchanging. No new management hires in recent years. -Very little opportunity for advancement/promotion. -Technicians often accumulate substantial responsibilities without being promoted or receiving increased compensation. -Technician advancement to engineer is exceedingly rare and has notably happened only twice. (To my knowledge.) Technicians have been told during reviews they won’t be made engineers. -HR, and management does little to nothing regarding Technician complaints or concerns. -Technicians are often excluded from meetings or plans for facility improvements, leading to misconceptions about how equipment and facilities work which often leads to non functioning or improper “improvements.” -Primarily Technician facilities are often neglected or low priority for improvement or repair. -A culture of “anonymous shaming” exists instead of dialog between employees when an issue is noticed. -Company policies are arbitrarily enforced at the discretion of management. -Blanket Corporate objectives are often unreasonable and unecessary at some facilities.