US Department of Veterans Affairs Reviews

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Complex and big organization, can easily get confusing to navigate

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Acquisitions can be challenging. I sometimes buy things out of my own pocket due to over paranoid checks and balances over micro-purchases. It kills efficiency. Put in place to ‘save’ money, crushing oversight actually costs way more by paying hundreds of millions for middle management auditors, processors, approvers, policy makers. Also prevents departments from buying local, small business, getting better deals on leveraging vendors against each other. There is a real disconnect in vision and mission between the vast amount of people in middle management finance and those who are interacting with Vets. It seems we are not on the same team or working for the same goal. Most importantly it has a negative impact on the people on the ground trying to actually do the work. It takes away our agility to do a better job. Most people think it’s businesses as usual, but I know we can save money and do a better job if we stop wasting time and money on trying to make sure we aren’t buying paper clips from a terrorist organization (plus we all know that Al Qadea stopped their new line of paper clips and moved on to selling office chairs designed specifically to support the backs of infidels).

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Ive worked in many hospitals and I've never seen such a wasteful, under staffed, over worked, unorganized, neglectful environment such as this. My scrubs are hand me downs from former employees that left due to the terrible situation here. We're unable to properly do our jobs due to the neglect management is causing, I've meet the boss one time and never seen him again. The floors are stocked but we're so over worked we can't check for expiration dates and or scan inventory because they assign us so many places it's hard to meet the demand. This place is a revolving door, 4 employees leave they hire 2 and it takes months to do patient care is almost non existence and endangering. As a veteran myself i find it so embarrassing knowing that people might die because management fails to properly compensate the conditions.

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-Poor training. They don’t give you the training you need in order to do an efficient job -Technical issues: Some if the programs are very old and outdated. A lot of the programs crash which makes for delays in production -A lot of us do not have access to the tools and programs we need to complete our work, therefore relying on employees who do have access -Quality review team is not on the same page. You may hear from a quality person that it is ok to do one thing, and then you may get a quality error from another quality person from doing what you were told to do.

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A lot of people call out sick, abuse FMLA, disruptive behaviors, and there is no repercussion because employees that pass their probationary period cannot be terminated...at least it is difficult to term them.

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There seemed to be not enough hours in the day to accomplish the necessary tasks and at times it became difficult to gather the necessary information to complete established objectives. Understanding the bottlenecks in policies, procedures, systems and methods of operations made it a lot easier for me because I had been a part of many transformative initiatives where I learned and acquired a wealth of knowledge, skills, abilities and was able to capitalize on opportunities for growth both personally and professionally.

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In office one day a week. Biggest complaint is the huge amount of stress the VA puts on VSRs, with the expected production numbers unreasonable. We must do everything we can for the veteran, many with very complicated situations, but at the same time, work extremely fast with no/few errors. There low total job satisfaction.

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You could make more money working in the business sector, depending on your position. Some VA hospitals are more organized than others.

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the workload can feel overwhelming