food service worker

Brown County, WI

Good place to get trained/experience and then move on to better employment. Pay was good for my position but you had to deal with a lot of politics from the county board, board of health, and bad coworkers to earn it. All employees gossip, the info gets around the whole department in less than a day. Upper management is currently performing a "cleansing" of the department, getting rid of anyone who doesn't share their opinion. If you get into management all you will be doing is being told by your supervisor to write up your employees and/or fire them. You will not be a valued employee, you are a pawn in the Health Officer's grand scheme. Doesn't matter how good of a worker you are or how much of a positive difference you make, they will fire you within your probation if you bring a different perspective. HR doesn't actually support their employees and they deny things said in meetings if you try to get it in writing from them. Keep all documents that you can get in writing concerning your job or job performance. Highly recommended to record all conversations because of upper management and HR's lies. Keep your head down and be a yes man for the first six months, suffer through a few years to get some good experience and trainings, and then go on to bigger and better things. Brown County Health will not be as great as they could be until they remove their tenured slackers and gossipers and truly value their employees who bring a new perspective. They are now a department run by lesdership who instill in their employees the fear of getting fired.

As the title states, HR had a knack for hiring some of the friendliest, most helpful coworkers you could ask for, and the appreciative public was definitely a plus. Unfortunately, the saying about misery loving company is all too true, as the great coworkers only served as relays to bounce complaints off of, and you listened to their complaints in turn. The higher ups, while often very knowledgeable about their topics of concern, often lacked specific knowledge about the workers' daily tasks, and often told us to do things that were simply not possible. Also, you will often receive many different answers to your questions depending on whom you ask for help in the management team, and I would advise you to find written policies and laws before listening to any one person's advice.

Brown County used to be the place a person would want to get into.  It was good during my early years.  Pay and pension was great.  People worked as a team and were successful in their jobs,  When union was taken away, people started to fear for their jobs and with good reason.  People that needed to be let go where, and should have been.  Once they started placing assistant supervisors at 50K per year, just to find your mistakes of little things and to fire someone,  Too much micro-managing when there didn't need to be,  A lot of department heads and their supervisors don't deserve the high pay they get.  None of them could come and sit down and do the job if a person was sick,  That "wasn't their job to learn how each department, in a department works".

I currently manage a very large caseload. Multi-tasking a daily ritual. I spend half my time on the phone assisting clients with concerns they may have regarding case benefits. I spend my other time processing documents, case management, and completing ongoing education. A typical day is a juggle between many different roles in which I prioritize which duties need processing first. I work with a group of fifty co workers who all have similiar duties. The hardest part of my job is knowing that I am unable have every task completed at the end of every workday. The most enjoyable part of my job is working as a team with others in my unit that share a same goal as I do.

The best part about going to work is that my coworkers are good people. They make it worth it going into work and getting through each day. Being a small team and even smaller since one left is hard when you have to adjust to different routines. However when going to management or HR with an issue you get the run around and no help.  Also getting phased out of your own building so another employee that makes more money can take your place and not to be offered it to begin with.  Currently not a happy brown county employee.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Amazing support from supervisors and Brown County Child Support Director 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
No stress when you have fantastic supervisors. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Professional , kind people work here. If you have any complaints please contact supervisor 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Very busy , fast pace multiple things to work on . Fun job .

Excellent company to work for. They have great people working for them and provide the proper training to keep their employees at the top of their field.
I very much enjoyed my time there and learned how to interact with many different types of people while implementing the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Program in the Brown County Schools.

Like doing the work, hours and benefits are good. Management is just ok they need to improve and quit worrying about what’s going to happen to them and keep the employees that there managing in the know and treat them nicer. The snow plowing is a joke no management when there is a snow event. It’s like the first time it snows at every snow event. The 4-10 hour days are nice in the summer. The work place is very old and outdated.

I have enjoyed 13 years of serving the community by working at Brown County. There are a lot of great people that work tirelessly to benefit those in need. Tons of great programs are offered while still having county workers be fiscally responsible with taxpayer dollars. I am proud to say I work for the county and am grateful for the opportunities to move around departments and build relationships with those I work with. Good compensation and great benefits.

I enjoyed my time working for child support. Since the department was big there were some cliques. Overall the pay was good and so were the benefits. I disliked having to pay for parking. The supervisors where overall helpful. Sometimes policies would change and some people were not on the same page. 

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