Pros
- opportunities to learn new things, take on more responsibility, build your resume. Generally, if you try at all you will be given chances to take on any dept you wish and to advance. This can be a super great thing, especially if you’re just starting out in the work force. - everyone is treated fairly equally here - sometimes you get free food - great view of the river - really fun Christmas party. They rent out a bar and have open bar all night plus dinner and Ubers home. - some people are given the chance to travel to escort patients home or to go on marketing trips
Cons
- with the added responsibility (that you will no doubt get, because out of about 20 people at the company at least one quits or is fired per month), you will not get a pay raise and will almost always be doing the work of two people. You will also be scolded if this requires the company to pay you overtime. - the equality that is experienced here is really just based on everyone being equally treated like trash. - the PTO policy is not generous to begin with, but even worse is you can’t use it. A day off must be scheduled a month in advance. Are you sick? Need to go to the doctor? Good luck. They won’t let you go unless you call in sick so they can’t stop you. Then they will demand a doctor’s note and sometimes your actual medical records for proof you are sick. Any time you need even an hour off, the owner assumes you’re interviewing. This is because working there is so awful, almost everyone IS interviewing. You would think this fact would be a wake up call, but it isn’t. He just decides every single person he hires is the problem, and not poor management. - there isn’t enough parking, so most new hires will be forced to park outside the shipyard (they don’t tell you this in the interview). This means a 10 - 15 minute walk to the building, which obviously adds a lot to your work day. It also means you can’t really leave for your 30 minute lunch. To walk to the office, you have to navigate through a busy, dangerous shipyard. Since you are walking on the footpaths, you aren’t given any personal protective equipment to do this. - management frequently decided most of the staff does no work, despite the fact that everyone is always quitting so the remaining staff is overworked and often new and not even trained. Their solution is to hand out charts that you are expected to use to track literally everything you do. - If you go to the bathroom and stop to exchange two sentences with someone on the way back to your desk, you will be reprimanded and asked why you are wasting time. Some people hide in the bathroom to text message or cry. You see someone break down into tears at least once a week. - salaried staff aren’t really allowed to take lunches. Even hourly staff don’t always get them, but it is more frequent. I saw salaried staff pressured to always work through lunch. Managers rarely left their desks except the owner, or in the case of management having secret off site meetings.
