This is where efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity come to die. Hooray red tape!
Pros
Decent benefits Readily-available hardware to do the job Opportunity to work with people from all walks of life Federal holidays recognized Opportunity to buy additional week of vacation per year
Cons
Assume a fully blacklisted approach to EVERYTHING - if you need it, you have to ask for it, wait weeks for acknowledgement, and then have the initial request rejected bc the recipient doesn't fully understand the request and refuses to follow-up with the requestor. Assume that all managers work in a silo - no one adopts the same approach to anything, and senior management is incapable or unwilling to work together and stand up/set up a process that all should follow. Assume that any "optional" surveys or opinion polls submitted to associates will be worded cleverly so that no useful feedback will be determinable from them; just checking a box so that from a reputational standpoint the company will look better amongst peers. Also assume that they are not "optional" and that you be hounded to death to participate, despite knowing that, again, your feedback will be pointless. Assume that the company is satisfied with a certain level of turnover as a means by which it will appear "lighter" from a cost vs. revenue perspective. Work gaps as a result of turnover will be redistributed to remaining associates as there is never officially a "hiring freeze" but there always is one unofficially in practice. Assume that the C-level executive branch will always appear as it always has and does - GOBN. Assume that your hard work should be appreciated by you, and sometimes slightly acknowledged by management, but not in any monetary result or bonus contribution. Do however expect hard work to be rewarded with more hard work. Assume an abundance of fruitless meetings, all to justify the productivity of associates whose jobs yield no visible/measurable output.
