US Navy Reviews

Pros

Most supervisors are very willing to help for personal issues outside of work. They show a genuine level of care.

Cons

Some supervisors prefer to work you into the ground and have no respect for the worker while at work. Their only goal is to make themselves look better, rather than make their division a better place.

Advice to Senior Management

Use some of the compassion showed towards personal issues outside of work and apply it to at work situations. Do not micro-manage your workers, they do not work as hard if you do.

Pros

Great benefits, retirment is second to none.

Cons

being away from family

Deployments

bulls*** (just like any other job though)

Advice to Senior Management

make the promotion process more fair. It's going to take big brass getting involved, but many good sailors are not at their appropriate rank. And many deadbeats are coasting.

Pros

Benefits, Good people to work with

Cons

Politics is top priority. Not very good advancement because all the people joining due to the economy.

Advice to Senior Management

A better open door policy.

Pros

The US Navy has some of the best opportunities to obtain training and qualifications that you would need a degree to get at any other company

Cons

100+ hour work weeks while in-port get to you after a while, deployments aren't bad so long as port calls don't get cancelled

Advice to Senior Management

listen to your people more. They are the lifeblood of the naval combatant force. If you don't, even more people will leave.

Pros

Benefits
Flexible schedule on shore duty and some sea commands.
Good technical training for many fields of operation.
Great people to work with.

Cons

Evaluation system is horrible it doesn't to justice to hard working individuals and focuses to much on things that aren't directly related to your job.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop kicking out good sailors.

Pros

In my experience, the benefits are unmatched. The travel was also one of the greatest reasons to join the navy. I was also able to earn my associates and bachelors degrees, but it was not easy.

Cons

The hours are very, very long and the pay is not the greatest in the world. The time spent away from family is also a downside.

Advice to Senior Management

There is a huge disconnect between the people performing the actual work and the people in charge. Life would be much easier if senior leadership would listen to, and take the advice of resident experts.

Pros

The benefits package is great. Part of the "salary" is non taxed. Able to travel. Possible to get trade training related to the "outside."

Cons

Choose your career field wisely. Just because you are in what could be considered a good field doesn't necessarily mean that advancement opportunity in the Navy is on track or even anywhere close to the outside.

Advice to Senior Management

When you say that you are going to listen to the inputs of your junior personnel, LISTEN TO IT! Get away from the goold 'ol boy network and evaluate personnel based on performance, the way it was designed. Get out of the "kool-aid" and realize that the Navy isn't as great of a place as "it used to be."

Pros

Job Security is a plus
Being part of the best team in the world is satisfying
Experience
Education
Training
Leadership

Cons

Tremendous time away from home
Life threatening risks and hazards
No privacy in the workplace
very structured, leaving little room for subordinates to make valuable contributions

Advice to Senior Management

Make Permament Change of Stations moves more fair, and transparent, give local commanding officers more authority to reward subordinates with medals, money, and job placement.

Pros

Pride in serving your country.

Cons

Long hours and deployments can be difficult.

Advice to Senior Management

Be open to change. Traditional methods aren't always effective.

Pros

Job stability, pay, benefits, flying awesome aircraft in awesome ways, traveling around the world and meeting some great (and plenty not so great) people.

Cons

You have no life, you live where you're told to live, you don't see your family for years at a time, good luck having a work/life balance, extremely high stress, you'll probably have a divorce or two by the time you retire.

Advice to Senior Management

Reduce the demand signal!