Do not open, (you will feel) dead inside!
Pros
There were a lot of good, decent people working here. Unfortunately, most of them are underpaid, undervalued, and under terrible leadership. The work varies a bit day to day so you don't become too terribly bored and it's easy to have a good work/life balance in many of the available positions.
Cons
Regardless of how long you have been at the company or how many quantifiable contributions you've made, there will be little or no raises. There is a high turnover so you can look forward to entering a project, struggling to make the project work, and then watch the bottom fall out as the majority of talented team members get fed up/feel mistreated and leave. Repeat. If you are effective and choose to stay, you will be given more and more work (often doing the jobs of several people) and then be told "it's a lateral move" and not see any of the profit from your diligence. I was even told by a supervisor, "we need to keep loading bricks on the horse until it's back starts to break. At that point, we take one brick off and that's your workload". At some point, you could probably work yourself up to CEO and still be making $15 an hour and have an assistant mailroom title. Performance reviews are a joke. I've literally been told by separate supervisors that they are not allowed to give rankings on the highest end of the spectrum. They are told by upper management to keep the rankings in the high middle for good employees to show progress and start scaling them towards the low end to get rid of any troublesome employees at a moment's notice if needed in the future. The employees are largely aware of this and I've rarely worked someplace where the overall morale is so low. Branch management is painfully aware of these shortcomings but are unable and/or unwilling to take any concrete steps to affect real change. It's a numbers game and they'd rather replace a whole team than fix the real roots of a problem. It's cheaper that way. I would seriously recommend anyone interested in a career with this company to take this review (any many others like it that you will find on this site) into account before seeking employment with this company. I only wish I had done so before wasting so much time and energy trying to make it work there.
