administrative specialist

senior maintenance person

senior engineering technician

developer ii

accounting technician

State of North Carolina

A typical day at work for a second shift Therapeutic Support Technician like me is to arrive at work few minutes to 3:00pm and be in report room at 3:00pm which will last for about 30minutes. I pick my assignment and head to either to do vital signs or room inspection or sit with 1:1 with patient  or call and monitor patients for evening medication or be on floor for general monitoring of patients and/or receive and reviewing paper work from first shift to make sure they signed where necessary. At 5:00pm we gather both claimants and staff in the day room for group meeting which last for 30minutes and at 5:30pm we give out behavioral evolution cards called point cards which have monetary values to patients and we accompany them to point store to buy snacks. At 6:00pm we accompany  patient down stairs to serve them dinner or they eat in the unit, At 6:30pm we accompany patients to gymnasium for exercise.  At 7:00pm we call patient together at medication window and monitor them take their night medications. We give out to them 8:00pm night snacks as soon as that take their medications. After snacks we give out linens and towels for shower. We continue monitory patients on 2:1, or 1:1, or arms length or eye view or every: 15mins or 3omins while in bed or out in the day room.At 10:00pm we get paper ready for the next shift and take out trash and dirty linens. At the end of the report at 11:30pm I recheck my documentation and sign off, hand it over to next shift and drive home. what I learned is that good communication and being on time with schedule make them less agitated, The manager I had makes her self available to patients on the floor from time to time and she listens and addresses some of their problem in the absence of the social worker or doctors which we might not have specific answer for them.  My workplace culture I should said that is very much easy among Technician to technician, Technician to manager but a much more difficult between technicians to Registered Nurses. The reason is that tech, are directly in contact with patients and some time when they try to communicate with RN for example that certain patient work well with certain technician so that their assignment can reflect that to avoid incidents. The RN may think that she above you that you cannot tell her what to do. where I worked when the Techs for see trouble coming from as result what mentioned early more than one tech can go to communicate with RN to effect the change to avail patient escalation. That why communication and understanding is very important in work place.Even Though I still miss my patients some can be very aggressive and staff are injured everyday but some who injured you while they were very sick may come back to ask you for forgiveness when they get well because they did know what they we doing. It give joy to help those who cannot help themselves and it gives me joy to know that I'm making a difference in someone's life.

Being a TSSII at CRH in Butner, NC is a fairly easy job. Almost too good to be true. Typical nights on FSU/B0 is doing rounds on patients every 30 or 15 minutes (depending on patient status). You document and the other tasks include obtaining vital signs and light work basically. But because the job is easy, many of the staff that has been there a long time try to manipulate staff into short cuts and nonsense which makes work easy for them and put patients at risk. There is a certain culture in the Forensics (FSU) unit that makes it hard for decent staff to stay. Many staff sleep all night and then will tell on other staff to keep the heat off of them. But this really makes it hard for the whole unit. If you are trying to advance, do not tell anyone. There is a crabs in a barrel mentality with long term staffers will try to get you in trouble and single you out. This facility is a Psychiatric facility and the implement a RED DOT system. If someone calls out on the next shift and you have the DOT, you have to work a double shift which is 16 hours. If your co-worker calls out on their DOT, you may inherit that DOT. If you work 3rd shift, YOU will most likely get caught in several DOTS a month. The long term staffers that are techs think that they run this unit and will try to manipulate the nurses. In this unit, the men are favored more than the women. This means that they can break every rule and still keep a job. If you are a woman, you can not do this as there are too many women that are in charge which is only a problem when they have a problem with other female staff. The culture here is toxic with confrontations often happening when "outspoken" ghetto staff try to force you to do their job and more even though the assignment is clear cut and obvious upon the start of the shift. This unit can not retain staff and has lost 3 or 4 people in less than 2 months. The patients are not a major problem and they are in this unit because they have been declared mentally insane. The problem is that there are certain staff who talk to patients in a non professional manner often talking about other staff to the patients and likely causing conflicts that can hinder how other staff communicates with these patients. This place is too easy to have the problems that it does but the major issue is that because there is a certain majority demographic here, these staff have a mindset of getting over on others for their own benefit. So even though the job is easy, they don't want newer staff to be comfortable on the job even though they sleep all night and jump on the computers and shop, you are supposed to pick up their slack. You are not supposed to be smart enough to know that they are manipulating you. It was good while it lasted, but I do not recommend this place unless you are staff that is vested with the state and is transferring from another facility. Because if you are just starting out state, you will be non permanent for a year and they can fire you at will. Staff like to mess with you when you are nonpermanent, that way they can get you fired. 

When you are hired on, you are at the bottom of the heap regardless of your experience in your field, educational level, and specialized technical understanding.  Managers promote subordinates on basis of time in service and "schmoozability" rather than on proper fit for a management role.  This begins a downward spiral of qualification, where people with experience and skill are viewed as a threat to the advancement of the already established staff and are either driven out or neutralized for career advancement before they even get started.  You are welcome to stay, but promotions in other labs are already "claimed" by people in those labs (regardless of experience or education), so you are stuck in the lab you are in, waiting behind others who have waited it out--the ones who can't find a better job elsewhere due to lack of qualifications.  You are welcome to improve the lab with what you know, just don't expect any recognition or credit for your work--that will all be claimed by the supervisors and others in the lab.  Behind your back, the core "clique" will destroy your reputation in order to maintain their position in line, even if they have no background or education in science and know that preventing your advancement is wrong for the lab and its future.  It is a dead end job, and the only way to advance is by others dying, retiring, or finding a better job elsewhere (very unlikely since they are lucky to have this job with their qualifications).  Take this job if you want to wait a very long time to advance to a position of responsibility.  Your career is now in an ice age, frozen in time, and you are going to be a technician forever.....

A typical day of work for a Deputy Clerk of Court depends very much upon your position and division.  Generally we arrived before we opened to the public and began to key our daily updates and to advance the court cases on the pending shelves when the courtroom clerks took their boxes away.  Once the doors opened we continued our specific assignments and also helped answer questions from attorneys and the public.  As the courtrooms closed we sent the day's cases to whatever departments would next get them.  Lather, rinse, repeat ad infinitum.

I always found my co-workers, with rare exception, to be just as hard working and caring as I was with the public.  We were often called upon to perform a level of work which in private practice would have been divided between two people and for higher pay.  Yet we did our jobs, mostly without complaint, and enjoyed helping each other out as we could.  Years later I still speak with and help my friends who were able to remain at their jobs through the Recession.  It was a time in my life I needed and would not have changed for the world.

The hardest parts of being a clerk were our lack of parking, our pay's dependence upon the vagaries of the State's budget, and an almost constant disregard by the public for whom we served with such distinction.  Still, it was enough to know among ourselves that we were all in the same boat and to appreciate that those who didn't know all that our office did in a day could not understand how seriously we took our oaths.

•	Software QA tester with full system development lifecycle experience, including designing,
developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes fueling swift corrective actions.
•	Proficient in Manual Testing and Automation Testing of Web, Desktop and Hand-Held Devices (Palm & Pocket PC) applications using RFT, QTP, Quality Center, Win Runner, Test Director and Load Runner.
•	Successfully implemented QA process (Issue reporting system, Analysis and approval of the issue, Assignment, Test Cases, Defined bug life cycle, release Notes, Sign Off for UAT, and Release Testing) and maintained the documentation in Light.
•	Excellent experience in preparing Use Cases, Test Plans, Test Scripts, Test Cases and Test Data based on business requirements for the testing of application software.
•	Extensive experience in different testing methods like System Testing, GUI Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Browser Testing, Positive & Negative Testing, End to End Regression Testing, Web application Testing, Black box testing, White box testing, Performance testing, Load Testing, User Acceptance Test (UAT) for  Client/Server Applications and Stress Testing.
•	Capable of managing testing with little or NO Requirements, Gathering Functionality details by Contacting SME, Business people and interacting with Development team.
•	Performed Back-End testing and data validation using SQL Queries on client/server and web-based applications.
•	Proven track record of working well with Developers, Business, Product Support and  teams.

A typical day at work would be a new task in learning something each and every day. I would prefer to bee challenged at work, but not overly stressed out. I respect authority and have always respected people I have worked for. I like to meet good solid co-workers it seems like there are alot of people that talk negative all the time, those people I would like to help get more motivated and get the negative co-workers to learn that it is a team effort to get the job done. The hardest part of would be having constant negative feedback I would not ask for more than just a good job from management. I think its also to start a job without being trained throughly by a company. The most enjoyable thing about a job it has got to be a pleasant work enviroment with a strong code of ethics. The perks are attainable income, benefits, and knowing that what ever you do you make the most of it. At my most recent employer, I loved helping people even though it was in a hostile enviroment. the pros of the job were helping people suceed and turn their lives around great team efforts, free heath insurance, and great all around benefits. Cons were management not giving credit where credit was due and management changed often. I was injured on the job and upper management seemed not to care at all.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Health benefits, some flexibility, and stable income if not threatened by management.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management and administration create the most stress. Its Unessisary stress from the top down (from Raleigh to the Districts). We can't even perform our job duties well due to this stress and lack of employees to respond to requests from the public. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment has gotten worse over the years. It used to be a family atmosphere but now, it's a totalitarian environment. If you do not say and do exactly how expected, your job is in jeopardy; even it means putting the integrity of your cases in question. I have been put in bad situations by management and human resources. They don't care. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I was on call 24/7 and carried 2 telephones for 26 years. Duties included: investigating criminal cases of all types, interviewing people, preparing reports, training, presenting cases to District Attorneys, listening to management daily about some type of BS, traveling long distances, vehicle maintenance, and most of all daily administrative paperwork that was BS and took time away from developing leads and solving cases. Agents do not have any autonomy with cases and their day to day duties anymore.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Working with clients although administration did not support quality but quantity, thus adding more and more hours of redundant documentation and what appeared to be therapy

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Lack of admin support, very punitive of clients/ counter-therapeutic environment, push to politically please judges at the expense of endangering other residents/clients and staff; constantly/bi-weekly changing program structure, treatment protocols, allowing staff in litigious processes with upper management/highest level of state leadership to continue to violate professional and ethical mandates, abuse power, and "lead" via intimidation, alter State Policy and Procedure Statutes to align with personal, financial, and political need; State Grievance Policies and Procedures for Employees and Residents  were written/ altered  "At-Will" by Human Resources Officers essentially "supervised" by Wardens trained in Basic Law Enforcement who governed ALL financial, medical, clinical, personnel, political ceilings-the most stressful, working/ trying to work in a Double-Bind. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Chaotic, hostile

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Quite stressful

- A typical workday at Fayetteville State University (State of North Carolina) incorporates a team centered environment where helping students with their financial obligations is a top priority.

- During the past four years, I've learned how helping others positively promotes educational success.

- Overall, management concerns itself with providing their employees with the essentials as it pertains to performing day to day tasks. Should there be a need to address, management responds within a sufficient amount of time to resolve related matters.

- My Co-Workers and I work well to promote the educational success of the students we serve. Ensuring that their financial obligations are met is a vital part towards achieving success.

- The hardest part of the job is dealing with rising costs such as healthcare premiums.

- The most enjoyable part of the job is to witness how my work goes towards helping the students achieve their milestones. Some students are the first in the their families to receive an education. Knowing that I played a key role in the process is extremely rewarding.

With this job I catered to TV personalities, musicians, theater people, comics, magicians to circus performers; all with different personalities as well as request and needs.
It could be demanding at times and need be easy at other times.
I was in charge of the wardrobe and dressing room area where the entertainers got ready for the show.
I worked alone most times to get the paper work done to bring each group in and get everything advanced for their arrival and set-up.
When we had Broadway type shows in I recruited part-time help in and supervised as well as trained them . I repaired and washed show costumes as well as help change costumes during the shows.
I've learned that no matter what type of work you do, whether it's show business or not we all need and want the same things in life and that's to do our best at what we do to make a living and feel good about ourselves doing it.
I've worked hard and mostly unsupervised for many jobs and knew my boss trusted my jugdement and decision making as well as like my work ethic and knew that the job would get done.

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