Pros
Great pay in California, good benefits and paid time off. Paid holidays and sick days in addition to vacation time. I genuinely enjoyed working with most everyone I interacted with and appreciated the familiarity most personnel had on a personal level. We had a 9/80 schedule so every other week had a 3-day weekend which was often what got me through some of the hardest weeks.
Cons
Management can be very petty, a lot of interdepartmental fighting and micromanaging where it isn't necessary. My boss made me hate a job I genuinely should have and would have loved. Ethical and safety issues regularly get swept under the rug and employees don’t mention it because they’re worried about retaliation. Too much trust is placed on managers to speak for their employees rather than the employees being asked directly how they feel. I’m still nervous about filling out my exit survey because I don’t want my old manager to see what is said and retaliate on my coworkers. HR couldn’t be trusted because we only had one rep and she proved on multiple occasions she would go directly to our boss instead of allowing the reports to go anonymous, resulting in retaliation and underhanded remarks.
