Oregon Department of Human Services Employee Reviews about "work life balance"
51% would recommend to a friend
(3 total reviews)
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Updated Nov 20, 2023
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Return to all Reviews- 1.0Jul 23, 2021Intake SpecialistFormer Employee, more than 1 year
Pros
Get to meet people, travel around, decent-ish pay, government benefits, decent-ish training, maybe, rarely even help people, was sometimes interesting
Cons
No work life balance, hostile clients, hostile, terrible, non-supportive management, racist coworkers, often seems like not really helping but just punitive, penalizing poor people, and especially, people of color.
1 - 5.0Nov 22, 2021Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee, more than 1 year
Pros
Team, supervisor, work life balance, pay and benefits
Cons
Tough cases, occasional unpredictable schedule
- 2.0Dec 4, 2014Social Service SpecialistFormer Employee
Pros
You come in contact with many professionals, individuals, and situations that you would otherwise never encounter.
Cons
Again, you come in contact with many professionals, individuals, and situations that you would otherwise never encounter. The work/life balance is almost nonexistent as you get piled on with crisis after crisis, paperwork after paperwork, and bureaucracy run by so much regulations that you can hardly breathe. (However, it is understandable since you are dealing with incredibly sensitive and delicate situations.) All of my coworkers confessed that they never dealt with this much stress in their entire lives. So if you are OK with having limited time off work, constant stress at its highest level, LOW PAY ($40K if you have experience or a master's degree. If not, your starting pay is around $38K.), and bureaucracy then this may be a good fit for you. Don't forget the fact that you will be dealing with raw human emotions and that your decisions will have real-life impact on people's lives regardless how correct those decisions are.
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