Getting smaller - Protection Specialist V Battelle Employee Review

2.0
Oct 7, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some good fellow employees and lower level managers are trying to learn their jobs.

Cons

Management keeps folks in the dark at best and lies directly to your face at worst. Lots of cuts of senior employees to hire less expensive and less qualified employees. Massive cuts in benefits, now operating below industry average. Zero chance of advancing (lucky if you get to keep a job).

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They pay my salary on time.

Cons

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