administrative specialist

mental health technician

senior maintenance person

equipment operator

administrative assistant

State of South Carolina

This is a big office its the central office to 5 other offices so its much busy, large amount of staff, as well as clients.Being employed here for such a short period of time I can only advise of my experience because, training was non-existent. I worked at for Coastal Empire Community Mental health as a front desk Admin Specialist for all of a month & let me tell you from the very 1st day I should have ran. On the very 1st day no one knew what I was suppose to do or where to go as if they didn't know that I was suppose to be there that day. I sat there for 3 wks twiddling my thumbs doing nothing. As a new employee people walked in an out of the office & didn't say 1 word let alone introduce themselves.As I asked questions it was answered but not volunteered. Towards the end of the 3 weeks I was put on the phones without ever being trained someone signed into EMR for me which had me very nervous working under someone else credentials. I didn't have EMR credentials to be able to do the job until week 4. A comment was made on my 1st day that no one last longer than a month with the shortest time of 2 weeks. You can cut the tension with knife throughout this building. In my 4 wks there were so many employees that been there for yrs left abruptly. I know my post may not be appealing to most however, I only can give my experience & unfortunately it wasn't a bed of roses. I left another state agency of 3 years for a fresh start & more pay to come here. With state jobs you'll either hate or love it. Take heed to my experience there are many more with the same experience who are not posting reviews.

I get to work at 08:00am and check my emails and inboxes to check on last evenings activities to see if any people you supervise got in trouble and begin addressing them. You then finish what you did not finish yesterday. All day you answer phone calls of family members and victims and offenders calling in about what they have going on. You prepare your court Hearing packets and submit reports to various other agencies about offenders. You contact States that have people in your state that you supervise for them. You schedule referrals for drug use, Anger management, community service, domestic abuse, mental health, Vocational rehabilitation, etc. If one of your fleeing felons just so happens to get located or you get called from an anonymous source that they know where this person is at or they get picked up, you drop all of the above and go get them. You conduct home visits of new people and go attempt to locate people who have not reported in for their regularly scheduled visit. You have to undergo mandatory weapons and defensive tactics and learn new laws and specialized training. My co-workers are the reason that I mostly stay there, however, you can see the toll the job is having on them as well, with more people to manage, less pay, more stress and mediocre recognition for upper management.

Worked for Child Care Licensing. Was a dead-end, low- pay job. Upper management did not care about workers, only interested in meeting goals and numbers. Supervisor was horrible- bad mood swings. Being a temporary grant employee, there are no grievances so you could be terminated at any given time- without reason- even if it is as simple as you and immediate supervisor did not get along. Horrible place to work. I'm so glad I'm out of there, should have left sooner. Very clique-ish.

Job duties are not as stated on vacancy notice is inaccurate. The expectations are astronomical and very unattainable. Little to no training. Low- pay for the dangers encountered such as- entering people's homes with/without law enforcement, there is a LOT of travel in subpar State vehicles. The vehicles provided are in very bad shape and there is no interest in management/ supervisor in upgrading within the fleet as long as they get to drive the newer cars. 

Immediate supervisor encourage clique-ish behaviors and engage in gossip among co-workers. There is not a system of checks and balances within the agency. There are a lot of unfair, unjust, and bad mangement practices that goes unchecked to clients and workers.

I would not recommend this job to anyone! Maybe another region (County) but definately not the Florence office.

Work for Parks. Perks of the job,.. benefits, low pay, provided housing that could not pass a legitimate inspection from an outside inspector. Working in an outdoor environment is nice but leaders choose to do the hardest work at 1 in the afternoon in the middle of June/July versus morning, I.e using a chipper, cutting down trees, the harder manual labor activities versus doing these things during the cooler months of the year or early in the morning. Being promoted is all about who you know not what abilities you have or if you are legitimately qualified on professional skills and personal skills in leading a staff. The particular park I worked for had very poor management. Long story short, it's a buddy system and that's how you get promoted. Your buddy will pull you up through the system even if you're a poor manager. My manager experience, talks to you and every one else on the park like you're an idiot, very poor moral among the staff, heavy division among staff of about 20 employees, very demanding and unaccepting of any other solutions to a problem that would end in the same outcome. Very poor skills as a manager and very demoralizing. Always given a guilt trip or denied when requesting a day off of work to have a 3-4 days off of work. Left this agency for another and I am very satisfied with my current employer, coworkers, and leadership.

Favoritism is high and morale is low...everywhere. 
Management needs a complete overhaul, as company politics seem to be the only concern. Turnover is unbelievable and promotions are granted based off of who you know, not what you know. Pay is low considering the stress one will endure while employed here. The chances of getting an increase in salary is very low. Yearly performance reviews are a joke, meaning you will not advance unless you kiss up or unless you know someone higher up. This is a very toxic and stressful environment. Management has allowed supervisors to dictate instead of lead. Training for non-uniformed personnel is a disaster and is not held in a consistent manner. It is a very sink or swim environment immediately upon entering any division. There is also the impression of: if you are "too good" at what you do, you will be targeted in some way. The agency, as a whole, doesn't seem to be interested in improving, but staying complacent with having a very unhealthy work culture. 
Very disappointing place to work.

Working as a C.O. was hands down the least rewarding experience I've ever had.  My supervisors were (for the most part) lazy and unhelpful at best or vindictive and callous at worse.  Besides the job related experiences which can really only translate to prison or law enforcement careers, I learned next to nothing.  The brass loves to play politics and rewards only their favorites.  Oh, and before I forget; If you choose this career and it turns out you're good at it don't let your supervisors see it because as soon as you show any kind of competency be prepared to work only the most stressful posts in the joint because your Captain or Lieutenant will look at you when you request a break from the high stress post you've been working for years and say "But who else can go down there?  You're the only one I got who can do it!". 
I haven't even got to the working with convicted felons part yet but if you can just say "no" you'll do fine with that.

You aren't properly trained for your job. Caseload are usually maxed out pluss some. Constant tech/ computer issues. Unrealistic deadlines and expectations. Doing the work of foster care and adoption for less than 40k. Easily will work 50+ hours weekly. No over time pay, only comp. Sick leave can be questions and denied. Little cultural diversity. Only recently ( 3months) started hiring people of color. Poor management/supervisors. Often will use the 3 on 1 intimidation tactics when addressing issues. You will usually work straight through your breaks just to keep up with the work load. No pay raises. Management do not care if you have child care at 12am and will try and force you to pick up children on other people's case loads( when on call). Supervisors do not have your back unless it makes them look good. Extremely high turn over rate. People usually stay one year or less, or until they start a family. Constant work place gossiping. This job is something you tolerate til you find your next. 

Overall, in the organization there are plenty of good people working for the state. However, at many levels there's bad leadership that play favorites, carry on inappropriate relationships, and create a toxic environment that motivates people to leave. There's also a great deal of rude and ignorant people that appear to be that way just for the sake of it. Nonetheless, there are great benefits, work-life balance, and with all the overtime that's available right now, to include a signing and holiday bonus, plenty of money to be made. The trade-off is a tremendous amount of stress and irresponsible and insensitive, leadership that gets in the way of a potentially good career, as there's a career here if only the obsolete people would get out of the way. The key to making money here are not raises, as they are rare; it is going up in rank and drawing overtime in the institution. Things are improving, but at a snails pace.

Typical day at work includes working 90 miles an hour trying to get numbers up so the bosses above can get the bonus. Unappreciated by management is the trend and they do not care about their employees. The buildings are disheveled and most do not even have windows! Other than learning about community nutrition what I learned most is where I would never want to work. Most employees that have been there for years are just waiting till retirement and this place has been described as a "black hole".  I've seen people fired and people targeted by management simply because they did not like them. If you feel like working fast for poor money,  no raise or appreciation than this is the place for you! If you want to be smart, run and run fast! I am currently looking for a new job. Most of the people I started working with when I began are gone and those that are still there are looking for a new job!

Witnessing what the likes of ReadySC provided the employees of Boeing, arrogant and knowledge-less leadership was THE name of the game! Out of all these instructors, MAYBE ONE qualified for the task at hand.  The rest were nothing more than military folks who knew nothing but "a" singular task and then...they try to pass themselves off as qualified instructors. The big cheese in charge...had his position for the fact that...he was nothing more than a minority and offered up nothing more then an overdose of arrogance. I was elated when a LICENSED aircraft mechsnic and new hire at Boeing as a Flight Readiness Technician got into a confrontation with my so-called boss, told my biss to shove it were the sun doesn't shine....QUIT...and NOW the same individual is an FAA inspector!

You don't wanna work fir SC folks. They cater simply to the likes of affirmative action regardless of qualifications!

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Administrative specialist 66 salaries reported	$36,315 per year
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