medical clerk

coding specialist

medical office assistant

senior medical coder

office clerk

Textron company has good products and an excellent technical staff. They have a number of long term contracts which should make job security something that everyone should be comfortable with. Unfortunately, that is not the case with this company. Senior management appears to make capricious labor decisions and either lays off or terminates high performing employees for no apparent reason. This leaves the rest of the employees with two bad repercussions: are the next and having to pick up the slack for the now lower staff.

In the four years I worked at Textron, we were chronically understaffed yet management was unable to obtain full time staff to build our talent pool. During that same time, there was always a feeling that a layoff was right around the next quarter. Several layoffs did occur for business reasons but the information wasn't well disseminated which led to more rumors of pending lay offs.

Needless to say, with overworked staff under pressure from potential layoffs, there is a lot of workplace tension. A number of talented individuals left the company to get away from the pressure into a more stable business environment. Those that remained worked harder and found it difficult to use their vacation time during the year due to the excessive workload.

AAI was a good company that merged with Textron Systems and over the four years I worked there, the processes shifted from the small company (employee centric) policies to the big company (company centric) policies. If you're a young engineer and you want to work for a company where you will be given technical challenges and given the chance to resolve them, then Textron may be a place for you. The current management philosophy is to get rid of engineers with more than 10 years experience and let the smart young kids come in and build the company up from within. Only one problem with that management approach, if there's no experienced folks on staff to provide at least some sort of direction, the young guns will repeat the same mistakes all young engineers make . . . .

Providing an education for the students was an amazing experience! We change lives.. Upper management only cares about how they look in corporates eyes.  They preach unity and a village mentality as long as it benefits them. When a grown adult chooses not to come to class, its because the instructors don' care, can't teach or are not engaging enough. Even if a student has a death in the family. They truly could care less about the students. How do you  justify enrolling homeless students? But what can you expect from a for-profit trade school. If your mantra is kiss a** and back stab you will do very well with this company. If you have a mind of your own and want to see the students actually succeed look elsewhere for employment!

• Responsible for leading and directing pricing strategy formulations and take necessary pricing actions to enhance profitability, ensuring integrity and accuracy in all pricing matters. 
• Manages total pricing procedure, enhances processes to make most of efficiencies and ensure timely response to market conditions 
• Manages and supervises pricing analysts to support activities inclusive of new price generation and discrepancy resolution etc.
• Assists with pricing negotiations of the company’s proposals and prepares clearly BAFO (Best and Final Offers).
• Performs financial evaluations to assess pricing action effectiveness.
• Maintains and regularly updates pricing history database

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing working for the company but working at Beale AFB ( contractor AAI works for) was amazing!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
They never get back to you timely but YOU are required to respond to them ASAP and not truthful.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Since we don’t work AT AAI - the contractor site I was placed at was an awesome place to work.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Working on base for the Appointment Line in the clinic was always very busy but getting to help patients and the morale in the clinic was amazing

To borrow another employee's description - The current AAI is good at one thing "they eat their own".  If it's a choice between a good decision for the Employee's benefit vs. the specific Army contract?  the employee is sacrificed.  Not really much different than any of the other Beltway Bandits now that the government is pulling back.  AAI's management wants to look like they know what they are doing.  Also, credentials don't seem to matter.  A cereal box certificate trumps a bona fide Bachelors Degree in almost every situation.  Rather, a movement into leadership is how good you are at "eating"...

The job requires working independent working conditions.  Training period is adequate alot more is learning on the job.  Deployments were very satisfying with regards to support from the company.  Support from the company's FSR's was extremely helpful.
The very day job is making sure the unit had fully flyable UAV's as well as the rest of the system.  The most deffecult part of the job was not having someone else to support you on site.

*You won't be appreciated
*They don't care about who you are, just the money the office makes 
*Expect to be fired when they want for no reason
*Major employee turn over rate
*Very stressful work environment, always hovering and badgering
*Major drama and gossip in the management area
*Office rules only apply to those who have "special connections"
*employees way under paid and no raises

Most enjoyable part of the day........ when clocking out at end of the day

They don't REALLY care about you and only want your body to perform mindless functions for the military branch you're working for. I had such a terrible experience with AAI; I understand now why there are so many suicides each year. The head of this company really is cheap. They want and expect you to work yourself to the bone without any care for your physical or mental health. 

A great company until a big box store came into the picture. At first, it was OK, but then they started the "markdowns" that drove all the reps crazy, because there were several pages of non-descript items with UPC's added, and you had to find the items without a description. I might add, this was in the costume jewelry area that had hundreds of items. Plus, I only decided to quit the company to be caregiver to my aging mother  who needed my help.

If you are looking for engineering jobs and a good work location, this may be a great place for you. They have great benefits, salary, and flexibility. My only concern for this this place is the future and long term employment. Since it is in the defense business, job cuts are inevitable and fairly often. Still, I was hired by them 6 weeks after high school and worked there for almost 16 years.

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