IDOT

What is the best part of working at the company?
Theres some good decent people to get along with. Ive made some friends. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Union protects the bad employees, and the dysfunction chases away many of the good ones. Bosses have too high of tolerance for workplace drama/toxicity before taking any kind of action. No support. Union contract negotiations are a joke. Stewards talk loads of promises, hype everyone up to not give up, and then let the air out of your balloon the next week by telling you to give up. Weak. Bellied up without a fight.  
Raises are meager, bracket midpoints and above are just an unachievable carrot dangled in front of you. Kicked us off our insurance and forced pay cuts through loss of other benefits. High turnover, and lots of permanent vacancies, dumping the extra workload on others. Backfills positions using overpaid consultants that make more than us who do the same jobs.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Much too relaxed overall. Lots of internal theft, mostly in the form of paid time, lazy, and being as wasteful as possible (supplies, utilities, etc) and everyone seems to look the other way.  Seems the running motto is “its the state’s money, not mine. So what do i care?” Very sad and disheartening; its the biggest waste of tax dollars ive ever seen. Im ready to return to the private sector. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Periods of down time mixed with periods of fast paced hustle. Repeat. Hot. Dirty. Dangerous.

The work/life balance is the best of any place I have ever worked.  I like my co-workers and I have a good supervisor.  Changes and improvements can move at very slow pace at times which can be hard to accept if you have worked in a fast paced environment in private industry. It will take more time and effort to improve things.

Pay is generally lower than in private industry.  How much depends on the position but in some cases IDOT pays better than private industry.  You don't have the boom bust cycle that is true for private industry so the risk of a layoff is lower and job security is better.  If you want to quickly climb the career ladder this place is probably not for you. But you want a life outside of work this place is the place to be.  


My experience in the IDOT Program was great.  I met many different people with different personalities which helped me greater my skills as a team player.  I learned the proper way to use pneumatic tools (examples: 60 pound jack hammer, slug hammer, hammer drill), I also learned how to actively lay concrete, and test the concrete.  I learned the basics of reading blueprints. The most enjoyable part of the training was seeing the finished product.  I wouldn't say that there was anything hard about the training because it all was about learning.  I just paid attention whenever instructions were given to me.  If I didn't understand something I made sure I asked for help to get the job done correctly.

The good thing about being employed at IDOT was the ability to run many types of machinery and equipment, also learning how to maintain the trucks and equipment. I also learned how to run multiple tasks safely and efficiently. The hardest part of the job was dealing with the bureaucracy of trying to do our jobs do to the lack of shortage in equipment and places for the equipment to be replaced at because the state wouldn't pay the bills.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Working for the public knowingly making a difference in the community.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Honestly theirs is really nothing stressful about it that I’ve experienced. Everybody works together and get the job done. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Let’s just say this is the first time I’ve experienced a none toxic culture working for this company.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Working hard with my my coworkers and getting the job done.

Effective production is essential, a typical day is to focus on assignments at hand, there are many items to learned, management is sometimes available, the co-workers are either visiting other co-workers or on break. the hardest part of the job is when the assignments are completed, and waiting for more assignments. the most enjoyable part of the job is to know the last assignment is complete.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The higher ups are really good people with a lot of understanding. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
It’s as stressful as you make it. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Productive with understanding for the human element. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day can have a lot of variation as to what is the priority.

Working at IDOT was a wonderful experience. Everyone is very pleasant and willing to jump in to help when necessary. 

It's a very laid back environment to work in. Management is great and very understanding and willing to help. Everyone works well together. Every department is connected to each other to collaborate on various projects. It always feels as if everyone in the building is a giant team working together and squeezing in a good laugh every so often.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Good people teaching how to do the job

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
No stress, do your job and go home. Love it.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Snowplowing insulting, and doing truck repairs

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Snowplow, salting, PMs, on trucks, repairs on trucks, picking debris on highways, patching potholes,

What is the best part of working at the company?
Everybody was very easy to work with

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
There was nothing that was very stressful

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Everyone was very helpful and informative 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
We were assigned with a task in the morning to be completed that day unless it was snowing

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