Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Reviews

Pros

Quick and efficient turn around on tasks/paperwork Friendly staff

Cons

None that I can think of.

Pros

There might be a few, absolutely wonderful departments to work for.

Cons

Besides that, the whole building, the whole federal scheme, is just TOXIC! You are not paid nearly enough, you are overused, then emotional abused as well. The hiring process is a complete joke, basically harassment-like. The environment will literally make you ill; it breaks your spirit so that you either end up leaving as soon as you can find another job, or you just become broken or angry. There isn't any true management, so everything is a mess. The management that does exist, doesn't care. Not to mention the ever-growing shut downs.

Pros

About half the employees are nice but fools. The other half will stab you in the back and look for any chance to do so.

Cons

They work you 50 hours, run you all over the state in their rental cars, force you to spend more time writing about how you spend your time than actually working, force you to give up your holiday and weekends to deploy for emergencies in towns with no hotel rooms left; keeping you away from home for three weeks straight and have to review training videos depicting how hateful older white employees are to younger hires of color. The costs of all their deductibles gobbles up 65% of your pay check. They trick you into buying over priced life/health insurance. It all geared to taking advantage of the employees like lowly slaves.

Pros

- interesting people in and out - interesting research - work with live insects - multiple sectors to work in with different insects - variable duties - often repeated tasks (Feeding, counting) - field work - extremely flexible hours - easy and basic work

Cons

- you are replaceable and they don't empathize with pay, boss delays raises - tedious work can become monotonous - college students, unreliable - no sense of responsibility