Pros
Organization has good reputation, clinical staff making a difference in people’s lives, physicians and clinical staff do outstanding work and it makes you feel good to tell others where you work because of what they do. Good work life balance. Not at all stressful.
Cons
Outside of the clinical side, it feels sort of a mess. Some departments are run by people who have no idea what they’re doing but they know the right people so they keep getting ahead. They don’t want to listen to people who do know what they are doing either. Managers are so busy talking about their department’s “worth” that they aren’t taking the time to show it. Collaboration (between departments) feels more like pushing undesirable tasks on others while hogging credit for things you didn’t actually do. My biggest pet peeve though is that it’s common knowledge that if you aren’t a director, you aren’t worth listening to. HR encourages pushing gripes to directors if you want anyone to actually pay attention. I find this quite disturbing and is a really poor message to send to employees. Essentially you aren’t important unless you have a director title. State employees get lots of PTO but recently most new hires are brought on through non state systems and the PTO is a joke compared to state employees.