Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota reviews

This is a difficult place to work in communications so people keep quitting. The staff get no feedback until the last minute when the work is micromanaged by bosses without the details. Then sloppy last minute work is blamed on staff.

No onboarding — it’s sink or swim — and given the breadth and depth of work at the MPCA this becomes a huge hurdle. No grace or support from comms leaders while you get acclimated. No processes and norms to rely on — you must intuit comms leadership’s intent without having access to them (frequently canceled 1:1s, failed promises to connect/follow-up, and over-full calendars so you can’t get anything scheduled proactively). Badly run meetings where comms leaders regularly dress down staff publicly. Devastating lack of clarity from comms leadership leads to a lot of sidebars among staff, and from managers to staff. An overall lack of trust.