developmental service worker

recreation assistant

maintenance person

equipment operator

utility worker

CITY OF BROKEN ARROW

Work was fast paced, productive, and sometimes rewarding, but can get hectic and stressful in a heartbeat. I learned many things which will help me going forward. Work/life balance was poor due to on-call and mandatory overtime duties of the job. Culture is mostly friendly and helpful, but also arrogantly conservative Republican-like at times. Management was horrible. My former boss went out of their way to make my everyday work life a living nightmare. Constantly micro-managing, manipulating, cunning, hypocritical, presumptuous, opinionated, and never backed me up on anything. No matter how much I gave and sacrificed, it was never enough and kept asking for more. By far the worst boss I've worked with in my professional career, and I've had some doozies. I enjoyed most of the people I worked with, and enjoyed most of the work I did. The parts I didn't enjoy simply outweighed the benefits.

Over worked and over stress, I am not only doing one job here but multiple, I have to do at lease up to 5 different jobs for this one position making it hard to do other jobs that they require you to do, they are asking for the impossible. Training is not good either, it’s here go and figure it out, or read a manual. So most of the time due to the amount of work you are in a constant motion of just trying to fix things when it goes down, with the stress and pressure it expect everything  to work and come up just fine it doesn’t matter the age of the device or system or if it needs replace, then you will usually get stuck trying to work on something you have no training or experience in, so you do what anyone would do an ask for help, but then they get mad at you because you didn’t know how to do something it’s ridiculous. I am asking someone who knows what they are doing and experience but yet they refuse to help and think that “figuring it out” is training. It’s no excuse for the poor management here.

Job turnover due to the way management operates and conducts themselves with good drivers, and trash collectors. Your typical day should be over at 5pm but you're working harder because there aren't enough staff. Outdated equipment(trucks), overworked, and underpaid, medical Insurance for family too expensive, managers are rude, no communication with employees, each month employees are quitting. lunch breaks aren't paid anymore, they expect for you to take your two fifteen-minute breaks in a truck. As a driver you must be in compliance with DOT and take adequate rest periods. I did learn how to operate a sanitation vehicle and can add this to my resume. 

A typical day was one where you could perform your job with little interference by upper management.  However, a couple of the higher ups never had a problem fabricating things so they could fire you.  And, HR is known for ignoring problems and letting good people go in spite of the evidence that supported the employee, not the firing directors.  It is too bad that several co-workers I know were very good at their jobs, but because they refused to violate the U.S. Constitution and state law, the directors found reasons to fire them.

Has potential to be a good place to work but the pay compensation needs to be revised for the type of work they ask you to do. Also the superior positions need to be rethought, because the people who are in charge aren’t  really a good fit because they don’t effectively communicate with their staff which causes their staff to not know exactly what’s going on each day at work. One day you can be working a big project the next day you can be sitting in a truck not doing nothing. It’s like walking around like a chicken with its head cut off you as an employee are always in the dark, then it falls back on you when they feel like things aren’t done to a certain standard. 

I was recommended to work here by some friends. I applied for the job as a pool cashier during a year the pool was "understaffed" and was expected to spend half of my day as a cashier outside as a lifeguard. As someone who gets heat stroke fairly easy, this was not ideal. On top of that, majority of days there was no time for a lunch break and honestly chances are you won't be re-hired so the city doesn't have to give you that 20 cent raise. I have many more negative comments about working here, but I'll leave it at this - avoid it at all costs. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Quitting.  Incompetent, favoritism, nepotism, need I say more.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Needs new management from top to bottom.  The good ol' boys are corrupt.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Could not be worse. Adversarial relationship between management and employees.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
There is nothing good to speak of except clocking out.

a typical day at work BA consists of deadlines that are controlled by other city officials - helping hands environment.

what you learned - City business

management - management is executed from the top down via memo style in which change, policies, and procedures are difficult to execute

your co-workers are typically out of the office due to meeting structure and lean running capacity

the hardest part of the job is the lean capacity

What is the best part of working at the company?
Working with a great crew    Serving the public.  Support services for all of the departments 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Budget process.  Working long shifts.  Not enough personnel to cover repair work.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Constantly having to change priorities on what is worked on or what department is serviced

The City of Broken Arrow as a whole is a wonderful place to work. The Wastewater Treatment plant is a hostile environment. I would not recommend anyone to work there. The management is self centered and treats the employees like slaves while the good ole boy system is used for employees that are friends with the management outside of work.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Developmental service worker 18 salaries reported	$20.90 per hour
Recreation assistant 11 salaries reported	$21.81 per hour
Maintenance person 4 salaries reported	$21.13 per hour
Equipment operator 7 salaries reported	$22.76 per hour
Utility worker 1 salary reported	$21.03 per hour

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