Pros
1.Coworkers are cool 2. Good opportunities for overtime 3. Easy to transfer work sites 4. Union benefits are fantastic 5. higher than minimum wage 6. Inclusive and diverse workers
Cons
1. Management wasn't listening to any feedback. 2. Critiques on your work were held back until you complained about something that management was doing something wrong, using it as an attack instead of constructive criticism 3. Very demanding on overtime and workload 4. Constantly understaffed due to high turnover because people hate it 5. Extremely low morale all the time 6. No upward mobility 7. Even if you do good work, do every extra task you can, are reliable, and offer your free time or weekends for overtime, they will still complain about your work ethic being not enough 8. Always trying to improve "efficiency," but not paying attention to anyone's feedback 9. Management will always guilt trip you if you try to take time off, and won't approve because there's a "conflict" because they have to be offsite for "training" (upper management party at a golf course) 10. Almost no opportunities to get raises 11. Management will hound you about misses, not because they care, but because they get bonuses if they get less than 3 complaints 12. We helped every other contractors with their job, but everyone still looks down on us because we're just "cleaners" 13. Managers micromanage more than do their own jobs, then complain that they have too much work to do 14. Management would literally count every minute we weren't physically working, but would scroll social medias for 2 hours every morning instead of doing their job, then complain that they have to do 2-3 hours of overtime everyday to get their jobs done 15. If you work 40 hours a week, are in school, and still want to have any life outside of work, management brushes away your problems because they "need" someone to be in at 7pm even though you started at 6am 16. I requested to keep my schedule, and only do 40 hours a week because I started school, the only thing I had requested for me alone in my 3 years being there, and they decided to change my schedule anyway and continue to guilt trip me for not being there to support them enough 17. Not enough pay for the amount of work, comparable pay for similar positions in my area was $25/hr and way less work, and pay at my site was $18/hr 18. location specific non-disclosure agreements make it almost impossible to get Union assistance for management problems 19. Fired a manager for poor performance, hired another manager from offsite that didn't understand the work, didn't promote from within. This happened 3 times. Each manager came in with "big plans" to change things, make them more efficient, etc. each plan fails, and they never listen to employee feedback. 20. A manager literally told me that they believed we needed to be micromanaged because we spent too long walking back to our crew area to take lunch (5 min walk minimum) 21. Scheduled lunches and breaks by person to limit contact with coworkers, because we tried to have a good time at work, even though we always finished the task easily and before deadlines, and with more "efficiency" than their plan