Pros
Bonuses were pretty decent for a super, however you work 4 times as hard as the sales period for 1/4 of the pay. Sales people and fellow shoppers were cool. It was satisfying to defy the odds and pull together a decent home for the clients.
Cons
16 hour days. Since it's a Wall Street company, emphasis is on quarterly results- passing garbage houses onto clients so upper management can get their bonuses. Rare to find houses specced to code, some homes were literal death boxes with the garbage methods used to construct. (It saves money to build like that which means more bonuses for upper management). Chronically understaffed- since hiring sufficient staff would cut into upper management bonuses. Upper management always spoke terribly of people who left, like they were subhuman. Upper management bought out the cheapest subs and expected you to train them in their trade amidst everything else you had to do. Chronic liars in upper management who always punched down. Turnover rate in my position was 100% in less than 2 years<-- that speaks for itself.
