attorney

administrative assistant

it project manager

systems analyst

administrative secretary

State of Florida

Performs highly advanced engineering work serving as a Contract Manager for minor and major design projects assigned to Consultant firms. Manages the contractual administration requirements for Miscellaneous Design, Safety Studies and other design contracts assigned to Consultant Project Management. Develops contract scope-of-services and coordinate activities related to initiation, advertisement, rate negotiation, and execution of contracts. Attends all meetings related to the development of the design scope of services and staff hour negotiations. Coordinates with Project Managers for the preparation of project specific scope-of-services, staff hour estimates, consultant staff-hour negotiations, Task Work Order execution and maintenance. Coordinates reviews and approves invoices. Prepares, coordinates and negotiates Supplemental Agreements as required. Coordinates with Professional Services Unit to ensure all contractual processing meets Department criteria. Manages, develops and fulfills Work Program commitments relative to assigned contracts.
Updates and maintains all Consultant Project Management’s databases and websites, including but not limited to the Project Management Contract History Report, Consultant Acquisition Plan, Design Estimate Database and Consultant Grading. Assists in the development and maintains Consultant Contract Maintenance System. Inputs all Task Work Orders (TWO), adds new contracts as needed, and provides monthly reports to supervisor staff. Maintains centralized filing system for all District Wide contracts. Updates and maintains all Consultant Project Management’s databases and websites, including but not limited to the Project Management Contract History Report, Consultant Acquisition Plan, Design Estimate Database and Consultant Grading. Assists in the development and maintains Consultant Contract Maintenance System. Inputs all Task Work Orders (TWO), adds new contracts as needed, and provides monthly reports to supervisor staff. Maintains centralized filing system for all District Wide contracts.
Assists with research and development of roadway and bridge engineering design estimates including coordination with other disciplines, performing technical field reviews, ensuring relative conformance with Staff-Hour Guidelines and producing technical reports. Maintains estimates database and tracks changes. Provides interim reports to management on progress.
Interacts with Project Managers performing technical work and research. Gathers information for vehicle crash data, roadway plans, utility plans, pavement survey reports, and right-of-way maps, etc. for design projects. Interacts with Project Managers performing supplemental research, data evaluation, compilation of reports, computations, illustrative materials, presentations, and graphics preparation etc. Schedules project meetings and prepares meeting minutes for project correspondence as requested.

I worked for DCF for almost a year. During that year, I experienced no support from management, and no help on my cases. The management will give you input all day long in what your not doing. They are more concerned with closing cases and not having many removals of children as much as necessary. Supervisors fail to pick up their phones when your out in the field needing guidance. If something is challenged, then be prepared to have a bulls eye on your back, and risk being fired. The "mentors and trainers" that are supposed to be in place are hardly ever around. The supervisors can be insulting and not empathetic to personal life situations. If your cases are overdue, due to sickness, they will remain overdue until you return back from being sick. Bachelor's and Master Level Social workers are paid the same, which isn't fair. They have more Bachelor level than Master Level.

 I urge anyone considering this particular type of work environment to please read these reviews, because you will understand the common theme in what previous workers have said, is completely true. Yes you earn PTO, but with the amount of overtime you work, you don't really get a chance to use it.

What I learned through working for this employer, is what I don't want in an employer.

If you want to try and maintain your head above water, Don't take lunch breaks! Supervisors tell you that you can't leave and go home, if you have a case due. You have to stay and get it done.

Those wonderful Admin Days to close cases, mean that you are "glued" to your seat, and that you can't take a lunch break, so don't even try it.

Superiors take more time off than the employees due, and haven't a clue of what's going on in their department. Superiors are not confident in their roles, and are scared and intimidated to defend true hard working employees. Superiors do have Bachelor's degrees at least, but are threatened by Master Level people.

Supervisors look at reports made on their family members, friends, exes, etc., as personal interests, and that's not supposed to happen. In fact, that's grounds for an automatic termination.

Also, you may never receive verbal warnings, it's all email. Your supervisor will email you, your caseloads and what is due, or what's coming due, and that's the way they are prepping you for an exit.

The caseloads are more than 25, what the superiors said would not be.

The hardest part of the job is the crazy hours and the on call schedule.

I enjoyed connecting with the families and providing resources to them, as the most rewarding part of my job.


Please understand also that there is an extreme high turnover in this agency. They need to install one of those revolving doors, like they have at hotels, because that's what it is.
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A typical day at work is very busy, Checking UBL's (Unbilled Listings) from the clinics I am assigned to, which is 2 community Dental Busses and 1 medical clinic. I check behind the billers to make sure the claims are billed correctly. Then I would work any denials, take backs or refunds. Research is a big part of my job as I work on an AR report (Ageing report) daily to determine why a claim has not been paid and submit the proper documentation/ appeal or corrected claim to be able to be paid. I track information on a spreadsheet whenever necessary. I also do certified billing for CMS. Billed with Paper claims CMS 1500. At the present time I am assigned to 10 insurance companies to do AR on and stay on top of the collection of payments.   Part of my job is to post payments onto the patients account and document updates as well, into the patient account. 
I have been trained on BFC, (Bill File Creation) as well Medicare billing using Claim shuttle. Write offs and collections. I take payments over the phone from our clients that call in.  I have learned a lot working for the state simply because of the many opportunities for learning that we are offered. My direct manager is very competent at her job and makes it a safe atmosphere for asking questions, she is very helpful and promotes a positive team environment to work-in. Most of the people working for the state have been here for years and have made this a long standing career. Recently we were advised that our whole department will go through a lay-off, because our work load will be out sourced to another county to save money. The hardest part of the job is the politics involved. So, with that being said it is a job to stay focused and not get involved in all that. The most enjoyable part of my job is the people I work with. We know each other, we help each other and it will be sad when we part. I like the satisfaction of knowing I am able to stay on top of my work load, and I do a good job.

A typical day at work is going over email and checking the case load that you have been given. Working with various documents received, verification of information, and  updating cases as needed. approving/ disapproving cases based on policies and qualifications of the client,, Working knowledge of the FL State policies and procedures. Interviewing is also part of the process. It is a lot of work with very little time to accomplish it. Days are busy from the moment that you turn on your computer, to the time you are 'made" to turn it off. 
The most enjoyable part of the job for me, while working for the State of Florida, is the relationships that you create with your peers. Working and dealing with clients ( the public,)  opened my eyes even more to the pain and suffering that in this day and age, still affects our society. I received a lot of fulfillment being able to help the needy, and  to make a difference in someone's quality of life. I also liked the schedule. M-F 8-4:30 with National Holidays off. 
 I believe that the hardest part of the job was the unreasonable expectation to do so much work, in an eight hour day, for very little compensation. The State threatens its employees  continually that they will lose their job if the higher expectations, which are consistently up-scaled, are not met. This causes a lot of unnecessary stress amongst the employees, low morale and makes it so that the quality of work and the empathy, that should be there from a lot of the employees is none existent. On the flip side of that, the State has a limited budget, and they can only do so much with their  budget in terms of compensation for their employees, therefore, what I mentioned above is the outcome.

•	Prepare legal documents i.e., affidavits, subpoenas, motions, orders, stipulations, correspondence;
•	E-file documents as needed;
•	Keep staff attorney's calendars up-to-date;
•	Coordinate and/or make travel arrangements for out-of state witnesses needed at trial as directed; 
•	Prepare and submit, in accordance with relevant regulations, travel and expense vouchers for expenses incurred by members of the Office in connection with work related activity.
•	Prepare appropriate Case Tracking Forms and sending necessary forms to Tallahassee; 
•	Regular data entry with the automated case and defendant tracking systems, with maintenance of appropriate back-up material, and responsibility for the proper update of information to the main data bank in Tallahassee; 
•	Maintain and organize all case discovery/evidence;
•	Send copies of all charging documents (Information, Amended Information and Indictments) to appropriate individuals; 
•	Witness coordination and proper preparation of witness payment vouchers at hearing and trials; 
•	Maintain proper documentation of work related, long distance telephone calls made by the attorneys and staff with the State issued credit card, by submitting appropriate as requested by the Department of Legal Affairs; 
•	Maintain accurate witnesses’ addresses; Notifying witnesses of new hearing/trial dates as case are continued; 
•	Notify victims of their rights, keeping them informed as directed, and notifying them of the resolution of their case;
•	Order supplies for the office by using multiple vendors as needed; 
•	Maintain office machines including fax machine, copier, printer and postage meter; 
•	Open mail and calendaring dates as needed on staff attorney's calendars;

What is the best part of working at the company?
No benefits in OPS 
Some good healthcare benefits when your career service, still a co pay sometimes 100$ + which is still not that great
Networking Is the best part

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
You can go above and beyond and still not get recognized for your work. 
Ex; creating a whole new system for a department and not getting acknowledged, 
And when discussed for a pay increase or promotion they reject it. Even though 8yrs later your system you created is still being used.  They use you for your work but don’t dare discuss an increase in pay or promotion. supervisors in MANY departments are too entitled, don’t know how to manage nor perform the description of the job. Highly unprofessional and When you speak up for yourself and perhaps the changes needing to be made. They hear you but never change.
No major discounts in stores, flights, rentals 
No parking perks
They do not acknowledge the employees. 
Not competitive nor will it push you to do better. You come in excited to work for the state only for it to feel as if I work at Starbucks. 
Starbucks perks for its employees are 2x better for the state and that’s sad. 




What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
diverse
Very judgmental 
Friendly but be careful with whom 
lots of jealousy, envy, lots of gossip. 
Equal to high school. 
networking with people from different worlds and departments can be the reliever To your stress

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Predictive 
Routine
Come in do your assignments and leave at your time. 
Nothing exciting not much change and if you do above and beyond you well find yourself much more stress. 
The bare minimum here will get you staying with this company for 10+ yrs.

LPN Specialty Care Clinic- Minor Surgery Procedure Room: Assist and Screen Veterans for same day minor procedures set-up, scrub tech and assist Surgeons with surgical instruments, set-up and maintaining sterility, suture cutting, breakdown and sterile processing of instruments. Wound Care, Suture Removal, Post op visits, pre-op and post-op calls, charting, secure messaging on tele-care message lines, Float nurse through all Specialty clinics, Plastics, Podiatry, Orthopedics, General Surgery.

It is very important to find a balance between these modalities some days, as I can be taken out of one clinic and sent to another and then back. Sometimes switching gears is tough but I take the challenge on because I know that this is what is expected of me and my skills are often being tested, this helps me to grow as a person and as a Nurse.

The tougheest part is I may work straight through an 8 hour day with out a break or a lunch but my job needs to be done and it has to be precise. The patients waiting sometimes 2-3 hours really need to be seen on time so there no room for complaints or anything, my motto is just get it done.

I have to rely on my coworkers assistance whether I want to or not. Some are very efficient and others are not. The only thing I have learned is I can not change the way people are but I can change the way I react to them so I choose to allow myself to be me and do not let anyone affect me.

The most enjoyable part of my job is seeing the work that I do helping the Veterans heal, physically, emotionally, and most of all, bringing joy to them.If I can honestly say the meaning of Healing for the sake of our Country doesn't have any effect on you than you really don't need to be doing this.

A typical day began at 7:30am.  I then conducted Officer briefings giving my staff their daily duty assignments.. Then supervised and escorted inmates to the front gate for daily inside and outside work details and assignments. Searches were than conducted for all prisoner dormitories.  Inspections for maintenance problems, contraband, and cleanliness was then completed.  Supervised recreation yard and all activities of prisoners. Assisted all dormitory Officers in inmate head counts.  Supervised  all inmates for midday meal.  Conducted dining room checks for contraband and secured the building.  Supervised all inmates back to work details.  Transported all inmates needing medical attention.  Securing restraints for travel.  Supervised distribution of laundry and mail to all inmates. Inspected fence line perimeter twice daily.  Including interior as well. Daily forms, logs, and paperwork were completed before leaving my shift.  My days working at the prison taught me how to handle many types of personalities and violent criminals. Additionally, the importance of working as a cohesive team with my fellow Officers to ensure the safety for all.  The most difficult part of my job was dealing with the inmate who could not be reformed and learn from his time in incarceration.  The most enjoyable part of my job was feeling the sense of accomplishment from putting myself in the most dangerous situation and knowing I contributed in making a difference in many peoples lives.

Started this job in 2007. I had no aspirations to become rich as a corrections officer but as of 2015 I have never received a pay raise, no cost of living either. The shifts are now 12 hours with rotating days off. Some like it ,I would not recommend this job at all  for single parents , especially if you must pay for daycare. We have lost many benefits. No more saving "special comp" days up. No more donating sick leave time.  No more drop program for retirement. You now must work 8 years to be vested in retirement instead of 6. These things were changed even for the "old" employees so be careful . Do Not trust what they tell you when you are hired about retirement or benefits .People that had been working 20 years looking forward to the drop program , had it taken away. 3% of your pay is taken for "retirement" but the money is not put in the retirement account, it is spent as general funds , so don't trust the Florida retirement system will be there when you are ready to retire. The amount the state put in your account if you chose the investment plan has been cut .  You are held to a higher standard like the police, but you get none of the benefits nor respect. It is a job, that's all. And it is stable, kind of. There will always be a job but your shift and, though rare, your  location can be changed. If you need a job today go ahead and apply just don't stop looking, if you have one now, stick with it. There is a real possibility that someone with aids or hepatitis or whatever  will one day toss a cup of blood, urine or feces on you , or spit at you , or bite you , or stab you,so consider all of  that when you apply,.

You will work 8.5 hour shifts 5 days a week. You will also work 2 or 3 16 days of overtime a week. If you use any kind of leave (personal, sick, bereavement ect) it will be replaced with any overtime you've worked. So basically if you work overtime and use any leave, you won't get paid for it. 

You won't get paid for working on holidays either. They have this corrupt system they call special compensation which they place all your holiday pay in. Why is that? So once again,  if you use any kind of leave, special comp replaces it. Stealing from you again. 

The turn over is terrible and their is no plan to fix the system they have broken over and over. The majority of people working for the state applied when the job was 12 hour shifts with no mention of 8.5 hour shifts or even telling us that their is a possibility the state switching from 12 hour shifts to 8.5 hour shifts. BTW, you won't get paid overtime for that .5 hours you work either. 

The geniuses in Tallahassee that came up with this terrible plan don't care about you or your issues. You are only a body and can be easily replaced by the next person they've fooled into applying to be a correctional officer. Which is underpaid for the risk you take working in a prison.

The ONLY positive thing about this job is the benefits. So if you have a family and want to be abused, overworked, and barely see your family all for benefits, this job is for you. Or if you plan on using this correctional officer job as a stepping stone to get into another job it might be for you also. Just know you will be abuse while you work here and will required to be happy about it. 



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