Pros
Excellent pay and benefits that equal and often exceed those of state employees doing identical or similar jobs. Fascinating client population, particularly for mental health practice. Clinicians will see a broad, comprehensive range of the most severe psychopathology and perform a myriad of functions in treatment (e,g, crisis intervention, individual psychotherapy, group therapy, assessment, etc.).
Cons
Authoritarian/paternalistic administration (constantly threatening "corrective action" for the smallest infraction of the most senseless rules, such as salaried employees clocking in more than seven minutes early for their shift). Borderline-anarchy in terms of administrative and interagency organization--shameless disorganization, mailing checks to wrong/incomplete addresses, losing important employee documents, failing to meet staffing needs, failure to initiate or return proper communication... I could go on and on here... I have been with the company for months, and I know of no one aside from local and regional administration who has received a detailed job description for their position. Failure to follow through with training and advancement opportunities that are delineated upon in job advertizements.
