Horrible Management (UCLA Academic Senate) - Administrative Assistant UCLA Employee Review

1.0
Jun 9, 2022
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Pros

The only nice thing about the position was that it was remote.

Cons

Micromanage to the bone. The Supervisor wanted to know what you were doing every single second of the hour. You had to report it on your calendar, Slack, Trello and communicate to your supervisor what you are doing 24/7. Such a hassle when the work turned in shows that you are working. Pretty old manager so they have the motto: "My way or the highway". Thinks they are smarter than everyone else and when they are wrong, they blame it on the staff.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Decent benefits, but not really as great as everyone assumes. Some colleagues who really care and do great work. Impressive students.

Cons

Relatively poor pay and pay inequities. Extremely poor fiscal management - that CFO who was fired for outing it was spot on. Senior administrators and faculty are incentivized to spend a lot of money on things that serve few students and hoard resources to make themselves look good for performance reviews and tenure committees, but it means a lot of extra work gets dumped on a growing a number of mid-level administrators and support staff - who now face layoffs or added workloads. It's all strangling the university's ability to serve its students, but I know several faculty members simply don't care about students or teaching.

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