administrative assistant

graduate researcher

patient services representative

senior administrative assistant

program coordinator

Oklahoma State University

But as far as the higher up management, YOU ARE REPLACEABLE NOTHINGS to them! The people in my pay range would get a “bonus” of 10cents per hour while the higher ups would receive a check upwards of 160,000$
And I understand they put in the work to get the degrees they have in order to be in that position, but don’t make the people below you (the people that keep the establishment up & running smoothly all year round) be made to feel unworthy, belittled & as if we are less intelligent than the superiors! & God Forbic if us supervisors ever acquired any overtime! We would get reprimanded with silly ridiculous threats (as if we liked being there WORKING instead of at home with our families!) & lectured for days on end, all with no avail… due to fact that all of us Supervisors were only given Students of the college to work for us. Most of them being foreign (i myself am of mixed races , so the color of one’s skin was not  at all the problem… it was the language barrier that made things extremely dysfunctional. That & the fact that 98% of them had never worked any job before, let alone an insanely fast paced food industry type job a day in their lives before! But getting overtime to train these young adults was OUT OF THE QUESTION! So on the first day of school, every single food concept in the student union would have lines out the door with upwards of 100 hungry college kids & various campus employees waiting in these lines for sometimes over an hour! Because all the supervisors of each food concept would be simultaneously training, cashiering, restocking, cooking, making beverages, cleaning, running to the back to get supplies! It was the most insane and chaotic work environment I have ever worked in TO THIS DAY! When I first started working there I weighed probably around 120/130 and am 5”4 and when I was forced to quit due to the audacious decline of my physical & mental health I weighed 98 pounds! The sheer thought of that place gives me goosebumps! I was extremely saddened to have to leave all the student workers I had helped & watched grow into these beautiful perfect working team they had all eventually turned into, along with all the other supervisors that had became my family away from Home! BUT the given health benifits, paid sick & paid vacation time & yearly (10cents raise in pay) was simply not worth me losing my life over!  

I worked two jobs at Oklahoma State University. I worked as a First Aid Responder and a Materials Management Assistant for the Environmental Health and Safety Department. 
  As a First Aid Responder, I enjoyed working the games because it allowed me to ensure that the participants were safe and I was still able to support the athletes by watching the games. I learned basic first aid for the department. I thought the management was great. Everyone had a fair chance to sign up for the events they wanted to work for and the full timers were understanding if an emergency came up. The hardest part of the job was to sometimes the long hours on our feet or trying to effectively communicate with patients who had an injury or belligerent. The most enjoyable part was protecting the participants with my coworkers.
  As a Materials Management Assistant, I would come in and my coworkers and I would get requests from departments on campus. We would donn the gloves and pick up the chemicals from the labs then after we were done for the day, we would bring them to the warehouse in order to bulk the chemicals for chemical pick up. I learned what certain chemicals were categorized as, poisonous, oxidizers, etc. My boss was calm and easy to get along with, we worked together as we pick up chemicals. The hardest part of the job was sometimes the packages were incredibly large and/or heavy. The most enjoyable part was bulking the chemicals for chemical pick up. We got into proper protective equipment and drained the chemicals into huge drums.

From Monday to Friday, I drive to the OSU Equestrian Barn at 8:30. I start the day with unlocking the offices and locker room. I then create a schedule to assign a particular horse to each team member and post it on the bulletin board. The team arrives at the barn around 9 where I help them prepare their horses for practice. In the absence of the head coach, I am in charge of conducting practice. I usually teach for 2 hours. When I am not needed for practice, I am in the office filing paper work and answering phone calls. I keep track of all the medical and personal information of teammates in folders and organize them alphabetically. When OSU Equestrian hosts NCAA official recruits, I am in charge of showing them around our facilities as well as OSU's campus. I also shuttle recruits to and from their hotels and the airport when needed. The best part about my job is that I still get to be involved with the team I spent 4 years of my undergraduate with. Throughout my experiences as being a graduate assistant, I've learned time management skills and leadership skills. While I was on the team, I was more focused on winning our competitions. As a graduate assistant, I've learned how to use my leadership skills to guide younger teammates by providing personal counseling and social support. The hardest thing about my job is the working conditions. OSU Equestrian's barn is not air-conditioned or heated so weather can be troublesome.

This is my favorite job ever. Everyday, I would walk from my apartment to the lab on campus at 8 am to pull samples of soil and forage out of the oven and record their dry weight digitally onto an excel spreadsheet that was shareable to the entire lab computer system, grind the samples of forage and soil in special motorized grinders, using compressed air to clean the grinders between samples, putting samples into properly organized and label containers along with the custody tags. Then I would deposit soil samples into the main soil lab and the forage samples into the forage lab. My job included aliquoting soils for pH testing, operating an automated pH analyzer, synthesizing buffers and reagents for testing, calibrating, and diluting, filtering water samples, operating pressurized soil moisture extractors, operating an automated EC analyzer, aliquoting forage samples for testing on the LECO combustion analyzers and the ANKOM fiber analyzers, as well as data compiling for clients and clearing out outdated samples from the stored catalog of samples, cleaning the lab and recording inventory. Though my education gave me plenty of lab experience, this was my first taste of actual lab procedure as a career. My coworkers were my best friends and I miss working there. Unfortunately, in my two years of employment, the only raise they could afford me was $0.10. I was working for $9 an hour and could barely afford my apartment. I decided to leave for better opportunities, but often dream of returning.

My job at OSU-OKC was much like my previous jobs working for a printing press and, earlier in my career, a math textbook publisher. My typical day was spent coordinating printed materials for school faculty and staff, and occasionally supervising others in doing so.

Management was very effective and approachable, and co-workers were friendly, hard-working, and team-oriented. Frequently a teacher or upper management would contact me or my manager with a large amount of print work to be completed in a very limited time frame, but we welcomed these challenges and were able to fulfill all print orders efficiently and on-time. During the last 2 years of my employment we were allowed to do printing for the public and other businesses, to great effect and reasonable profit.

The hardest part of the job was accepting a near-minimum wage compensation with little opportunity for advancement, profit-sharing, or bonuses.

The most enjoyable part of the job was the opportunity to attend classes part-time and have tuition and fees reimbursed. I took advantage of this in order to develop new skills for a new profession, with which I was able to leverage myself away from the print trade toward new opportunity.

Pros
- A lot more paid time off than most private sector jobs.
- Overall management is very flexible with regard to sick leave and will do everything they can to help facilitate work/life balance. Including allowing adjustments to attend class
- Very high level of job security
- Overall, great environment, great people. very team oriented environment. 
- Approachable management, open door policy 
- Excellent Benefits (Tuition Waivers, Healthcare, Dental, Vision, etc)
- Education is encouraged and rewarded


Cons
-Pay, expect to take a pay cut when compared to an equivalent private sector 
- Raises are rare. 
- True chances for advancement are tough to come by and take time. 
- Good old boys club. I imagine this is the case in most companies but play to your audience. As the old adage says; It's not what you know...Ties into the point above. Most folks are hand-picked and groomed for positions years in advance. I've not seen any new "superstars" come in and move up the ladder quickly. Whereas other companies allow you to move from entry level to upper management quickly.

OSU has some of the best benefits and time off that you can find anywhere else.  But your mileage depends on where you work at because Facilities Management has some of the worst bosses.  This used to be a place where you would be lucky to find a position, with most people staying for life.  But now you have everyone quitting and going for early retirement and now the average worker has only been there less than 5 years.  The supervisors barely last a year and several of them self demote themselves to get away from all the bull.  You better like your starting pay because you will never get a raise.  Even when the state mandates a budget increase to give every OSU worker a 2.5% raise that was in all the newspapers and given to most of the workers.  Nobody in FM received a raise and it was all stuff in their pockets. They used to be able to get away with their lower than average wages because of the benefits but now it is not worth it.  If you work in another department though you might have a good time with this place. 

I learned how to conduct productive graduate level research. The chemistry that I did was focused on industrial applications and remediation for industry. The philosophical focus of my work was on nanotechnology in novel method and reagent development towards industrial applications. The premise that guided me personally was a low production cost and high profit margin drive. In this setting I learned a wide scope of chemical instrumentation and chemical computational software. I learned how to interact with different peoples of the world, at the same time working in a team with diverse populations. The most enjoyable part of my job was doing research that developed new technologies and also teaching students of different backgrounds about chemical technologies.

A typical day at the barn was tending to horses individual nutritional needs at 6 A.M., then maintaining the proper sanitary housing conditions around the barn. It was a true privilege to work with high quality show horses. A difficult part of the job was spending some holidays and weekends away from family while taking care of the horses. Another difficult part of the jobs was caring for those that might have injuries, or morning the loss of a horse. This job was also very rewarding. I had the opportunity to have hands on experience with these amazing athletes. It was nice to wake up in the morning to animals who were excited to see someone.  Every morning when the barn doors open the same few horses always whinnied the same tune as if they were saying good morning. 

All of my job experiences that I have had will be applied to this position for the betterment of Bar S.

Fun, depending on managements mood, learned behavioral management, managers are not very knowledgeable, management does not take responsibility for mishaps, management expects students to know things that are not communicated, management puts most of responsibility on workers that are not prepared or trained. most co-workers are receptive, rude customers hard to deal with, enjoyable when everyone is happy and not stressed, hardest part of the job is when management restricts workers from interacting with each other. most enjoyable part of the job was when everyone is happy to see me and ask where I've been. also apart of the most enjoyable part of the job is when customers recongnize me from work on campus and come in to see me specifically when I'm at work

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