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registered nurse - acute care

State of Georgia

A flexible schedule (if you have great time management skills and are organized) is the main pro of this job. The second pro is watching some of people you supervise change their behavior for the better and commit to a new pro social way of life. The technology provided by the agency (cell phone and laptop) will allow you to conduct a lot of your work virtually which is a gift because you don’t necessarily have to come to a office everyday. The curse of laptop and cellphone is that you are always accessible 24/7 by the agency and all other law enforcement agencies. You are constantly bombarded with phone calls, text messages  and emails regarding the people you supervise. You will find yourself working on your “off days” just to keep up with it all. You are not allowed to go over 40 hours a week but with high number of cases, it’s an unrealistic expectation. The caseloads are higher in bigger cities but there are no incentives for working a larger caseload. If you have 300 people to supervise and your co worker with the same rank in smaller town has 50 people to supervise, on payday both of your paychecks are the same. Most officers try to rank up quickly to avoid the high caseloads and to get out of field operations. The agency has plenty of opportunities and trainings for professional development so that you are the best candidate for promotion. The salary could be a lot better. Prior to working for this agency, I worked in corrections with no degree and made more money. I recently got a part time job to supplement my income. Most officers with this agency have part time jobs just because it’s not enough money. The benefits and retirement plans are ok, that’s normally the good thing with a state job. Time management is a must for this job. The turn over rate is high like most law enforcement. The stress of case management causes a lot of burnout. The office environment is great. Not too much drama between co workers mostly because everyone is overwhelmed with the influx of cases. There really is no time to really interact with your coworkers in any other way except for work. This agency qualifies for PSLF which is a plus too. 

Started my day working and processing topography's of Georgia highways from 8:00am-5:00pm and took them back to my cubicle to analysis with co-workers to set up project dates and deadlines. When projects were out of town, I was given a state vehicle to drive, and provided a per diem to eat and stay overnight when necessary. I met with property/business owners, and sometimes coordinated the meeting site at a local high school to share the plans with owners affected by the proposed plans. Engineers would accompany the right-of-way team to these meetings and explain the reasons for widening road ways, to meet the demand of traffic due to increase in population growth. I was given the task to persuade these property owners in-person at their homes or businesses to sign the right-of-way access, allowing the Department of Transportation to begin construction. When opposition arose, I would have to mention the consequences of not doing so, according to the law of eminent domain. My success rate was at about 70%. I learned how engineers think when it comes to improving traffic and the amount of area it takes to acquire, as well as sympathizing with relocating individuals from there there homes to new locations unexpectedly. My co-worker's and I were especially close, and worked together to get projects accomplished within project deadlines. The hardest part of the job was having to travel for a least two hours in a day to assess the expansion of the proposed project, that included allocating the parcels that would have to be acquired, and travel back before the end of the day. The most enjoyable part of the position consisted of being trusted by my superiors to work cohesively with others with little or no supervision.

Land Protection Branch of the Georgia Dept of Natural Resources...A government job that does not pay very well or provide very much in the way of advancement.  Salary raises are minuscule (usually <1%) and far and few between.  There is virtually no reward to going "above and beyond" your job responsibilities.  Exceptionalism is not encouraged or welcome.  However, the benefits (medical insurance coverage, 401K, and time off accrual) are above industry average.  Unfortunately, internal promotions are about the only way to obtain a pay raise and are mostly about who you know rather than what you know. Interviews for higher positions or lateral moves are required by the organization as a whole.  But the process is more of a formality rather than a fair selection process to discover the right person for the position.  Typically, the "applicant" has already been chosen by a higher-up well before the interviews begin and often has no experience within the program or program section they are "anointed" to oversee.

Branch management (Upper, middle, and lower) is mediocre at best. The idea of cultivating employees for advancement is essentially an alien concept.  Most of the management within this organization display little to no interest in improving the workforce or learning the responsibilities and capabilities of the persons they actually supervise. Management tends to see subordinates as a disposable resource they can manipulate and control rather than cultivate and grow within the profession. That's very sad, because many competent experienced people have left this branch as a result.

I would not recommend working for this organization at all or for very long other than as a stepping stone to much more satisfying and higher paying employment.

We are a small IT Department only 4 of us. So we do everything. In a typical day. I could add a new user to one of our 4 Active Directory Server Domain, unlock user account. Clean up spy-ware, or virus off a user desktop. Rebuild a computer. Write up written documentation instructions for users. Add a rule in one of the 16 district Cisco Integrated Services Routers. Update the firmware on our 4 Barracuda Web Filters. Assist users over the phone with desktop, printers or log-on issues. Check all 8 AD & Microsoft data server backups each day.

Recently learned how to build a Windows 2012  Active Directory Server from start to finish and make it a Domain server. Import users via Excel worksheet and create an forest. 5 or 6 years ago I learned how to setup and configure a Cisco Integrated Services Router as a firewall. Know how to write the configure file for the ISR. I've learned several more on the job training skills since I started with the company back in  August of 2000. 
Since we are a small IT crew we work well together and help each other complete small & large projects  in a timely manner.
Management has a open door policy and they listen to our ideas about what's best for the whole District, 8 counties with 23 sites.
The hardest part of the job is not having enough time to get things done in a 8 hour work day. And some time we are in the way when the nurses and our customers (co-workers) are trying to see clients.
Most enjoyable part of the job is learning new skills. Traveling to the Health Department and seeing my customers face to face.

This employer has been plagued with poor management, and a lack of accountability at administrative levels. The employer has a history of illegal and unethical practices with regards to the individuals they serve (see Department of Justice lawsuit, 2007 - 2009). This employer also has a reputation for racially biased employment practices, along with cronyism, and personal favoritism, that virtually ignores job qualifications to actually do the job for which many prospective employees apply. This employer has a history of covering up its mistakes, and threatening the jobs of those employees who come forward to report (see Atlanta Journal Constitution reports, circa 2006 - 2009).

I worked for Corrections first, then transferred to the hospital system in 2005. At times, the job was good, with good mangers and and a work culture of helping others. This changed over the years, became better after the DOJ lawsuit, then took a turn for the worse in the years that followed. I hoped things would improve, and my passion for helping my community is why I stayed so long. However, even that passion was no longer enough. I was not afraid to stand up and speak out for what was right by our patients and employees; but my standing up was not only ignored, but punished.

I recommend to any prospective employee to look elsewhere. Do not work for this employer, unless you have a clear and actionable plan to get the heck out of there when you need to!

The Unemployment insurance claims department is a slave plantation in modern downtown Atlanta, lol. 
They over assign the amount of claims & expect the claims examiners to complete (release determinations) within 7.5 hours daily. 
Attention to detail skills? Ha, don't use that to do your job.... you are timed.

 There is no overtime what so ever! State civil service, but not a laid back environment  At ALL.
They intimidate the workers from taking 15 minute breaks, since only 30 minute lunch breaks are required by law.
This position *prefers* an associate/Bachelor degree, but pay is capped at $33,000.00 regardless of experience. Smh.

The unit has been severely Understaffed for the past 3-4 years. As soon as they hire 4 new employees, they wisen up and find something else, back to square 1. The employees are burnt out!!

The upper management's only concern are numbers, of course to keep state/federal funding which pays us.
Overall, They do not care about the staff nor even claimants who file for Unemployment. 
 It's all about Quantity over Quality. 

No job is perfect, but The morale is so low and it's toxic!!
 Do your research and ask a current Examiner/state worker about the conditions there before applying.

My complete honest and fair feedback working at (CEU) claims examining unit: office administrative sweat shop.

I worked for the State of GA for 9 years. For the last five I worked as a probation officer for the GA Dept. Of Corrections, or should I say, “Dept. Of Connections." My Chief constantly belittled and ridiculed myself as well as my coworkers. She had the worst attitude and was extremely unprofessional. She was constantly prying into the personal lives of her employees. Her micromanagement style is so annoying. Her best friend works in the office as a probation officer and she is constantly allowed to abuse her leave. She is shown extreme favortism yet she hardly ever came to work. There was zero training yet there was constant reprimand if you made a mistake. Complaints were made to the administration, yet none of them cared. I was only in that office for two years and during that time, 22 officers either transferred, were fired, or quit. The turnover was ridiculous. That particular office was responsible for way more job duties than officers are responsible for in other counties. This is because the Chief is constantly “buttering up" the judges, the jails and the clerks. She made her officers be responsible for their duties as well. The only way to get promoted in that office was to brown nose. I was warned by other offices not to transfer there and I should have listened.

I worked at Bright from the Start for eighteen years two of them being contract. I have had the opportunity to meet amazing people both inside and out employees, stake-holders and visitors from around the country. I have watched the organization grow from a small agency to a state department of several hundred. Many of the people work very hard at making sure the children of Georgia are safe and secure. The children are definitely the main focus from the consultants that do the visits to insure the safety and well-being to those who make sure their meals are healthy and balanced. I have seen the leaders attend meetings that seemed to be unending to try and find resolutions to issues that arise. I had a discussion with a delivery driver whom said, "Its the state, not much gets done and they are all the same." I looked at him and said, "Not this one." I am no longer with the department but I still believe in the mission and goal. There will always be a love and respect for what they do and the passion behind it.

I have learned more about the criminal justice system working here. Each day starts off by running a report of all the people in jail, I decipher which of those people have felonies and make a list of people that need to be seen at the jail to qualify. I return to the office and make files of all the people that qualified and refused our services and assign them to attorneys. 

You begin with first appearance and if a bond is not set, you will be put on the next Non-Jury calendar for a bond hearing. The Grand Jury meets four times a year, although, they may also have Special Grand Jury hearings in addition to that, and the District Attorney's Office will present cases to them that they want indicted. The Grand Jury foreperson will sign the documents - making it a true bill. The defendants will go to Arraignment, and have their cases set for a trial date.

I have contact with the clients and their families, prepare motions, orders and other documents. Assisting the attorneys with anything they need.

After several years of work at the state level finally, a cost of living adjustment was given, but that was only to keep employees from leaving substantially.

The department lacked civility, compassion, and assistance.  Many internal gave others difficulty times getting information, receiving information, or abreasting others of their communication.  Communication lacked extremely.  Some kept privy information and withheld  as a way to spite others.  A lot of back-biting, gossip, and non-chalent attitudes.

At first, the first few days appear well, but it starts going downhill with less information and resources. It is hard to do your work when lacking basic tools, and resources, yet upper management retains those perks for themselves.

Since the move to the new location 2 Martin Luther King Drive from 2 Peachtree Street a new paint job, but old attitudes, the same issues, same negative traits that exist.  You can use roach spray, does not mean it will kill the cockroaches. 

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