senior operations technician

transportation technician

administrative services coordinator

environmental analyst

program technician

State of Vermont

What is the best part of working at the company?
In the beginning the team/managers promised work life balance and meaningful work.  

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Dramatic culture change over the final 6 months of working there.  Nutrition supervisor is highly unqualified for their role and constantly making up rules that only applied to me.  Keeping more qualified employees in lower level positions as a power play. I was asked to take on more and more work without adjustment in job classification and bullied when unable to make it in due to road conditions.  Toxic management behavior.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The culture changed very dramatically becoming increasingly toxic and rules would change without warning “per managers discretion”.  Manager asking for a lot of inappropriate practices outside of scoop of position.  

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day included in person appointments with program participants, manager asking for extra work/events on days that I was not scheduled to come in, creating chaos for no reason.  Meetings constantly being highjacked by managers kids on her remote days, impossible to get replies from manager when she was “working” remotely, being singled out for new rules and demands not being enforced for anyone else in the team.

I started working here digitizing all the paperwork from the retirement department.  I was given almost no training except for how to use the scanner.  I was told how to categorize basic documents, but most of the documents were not basic, and instead of giving me some more training on how to categorize them, someone came in behind me to clean up the ones I had incorrectly categorized.  
I was introduced to anyone who was a new employee, but because I sat in a room all by myself, no one ever remembered my name.
Management was good, my boss was very understanding and helpful when she was available.
The other employees seemed very clicky and since I was only there a little short of 2 years I never felt very included, the people I (rarely) talked to would talk about other people and say some pretty harsh and rude things about them.
The hardest part of the job (for me) was the isolation.
The best part of the job was the Employee appreciation days and the office parties.  We would play Jeopardy and they would buy everyone lunch from nice places near the building.

I would assign and plan jobs, I would contact Digsafe if we where moving dirt along the roadway, contact utilities power company,phone company,cable company if we were working near there lines. I would meet with private contractors that were working for the state or within the state right of way.I often working with police, fire, and rescue with accident scenes or emergencies.
I learned how to deal with different personalities and departments and to take their work rules into cosideration when working with them.
I managed nine drivers and operators and help to teach them to operate different pieces of equipment such as sanding units, loaders, excavators, and specialized equipment.
The hardest part of the job was to keep everyone on the same direction when the different personalities wanted to keep them from working as a team.
The most enjoyable part of my job was keeping everyone working together and having the crew see how much they could accomplish as a team and the pride they had in their work.

The pay is awesome and great benefits but the environment is like a really bad reality show and can be very toxic. Lots of favoritism, nepotism, gossiping, bullying, backstabbing, and pettiness. Communication is terrible if it exists at all and management is clueless on how to run facility but are quick to "pass the buck".  Forget family life because the "worker bees" are constantly being forced to work over their schedule. If you refuse, you will be written up. There is definitely an "us" and "them" mentality when it comes to management and staff. 

Why am I still here you may ask? Unfortunately because the State does offer the best pay and benefits in the entire state of Vermont. It is truly a livable wage and there are steps or advances in pay each year. There is a generous amount of PTO compared to other companies. I have heard wonderful experiences working for the state so maybe it is departmental? Chose wisely my friend.

Interning at the Vermont State House was a great learning experience. There, I studied the Vermont legislative process by attending committee meetings and tracking bills from when they start to being voted on in the House and Senate. I met and talked with local and state officials to discuss issues that interest me, specifically on education, affordable college education, early childhood education, family violence, prison population and affordable healthcare. My meetings with state officials such as Governor Peter Shumlin, Commissioner Dave Yakovone, provided me the opportunity to learn from them about their jobs as well as their lives I was responsible for writing clear and concise reports and participating in discussions on many current issues,

It used to be that state jobs were considered good/stable jobs.  There's been a lot of talks about changes in retirement benefits and the vesting period, and this is what used to be the big draw to working for the state.  Workers also responded well to adjusting to work from home for COVID, made sure they had suitable home spaces for working and were flexible in being there to keep the state running.  However now that folks are looking to continue to working remotely the state is trying to force them back in and aren't showing the same flexibility in return.  It's a shame that loyalty to the state does not seem to be a two way street.  It seems that they don't care as much about the younger/newer employees and are driving them away to work in a more modernized place.

What is the best part of working at the company?
A meaningful job providing public services that help people in their daily lives.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Workload demands exceeding available staffing resources and lack of or delay in updated technologies to improve efficiency and accessibility.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Varies greatly between departments and supervisors. Many supervisors encourage collaboration, teamwork, and professional growth, however, there are those who do not.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Busy from start to finish with multiple interruptions and need to pivot between a variety of tasks. Frequent interactions throughout the day with the general public and government employees.

Pros:
Hourly pay
Advancement towards a future career.( stepping stone)

Cons:
- Inconsistent supervisors
-Rules keep changing 
-Supervisors watch cameras to see what officers do more than what inmates are doing
-Supervisors and co workers play on Facebook and internet all day in the u its and offices
-Temps will stay temps if you dont suck up to supervisors
-shund if you dont or cant do overtime
-they expect temps to work 3,2,1 shifts then take overtime. 
-called in on days off every time
-corrupt COs 
-poor maintenance within the facility
-DR's never get heard, just thrown behind the desk
-supervisors will complain that you're not writing enough DRs even if you are or if you never have issues within your unit.

Dont work in the Rutland facility.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Work life balance is excellent. Union benefits are great. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Services for our neighbors affect their lives so I feel pretty bad that we can't always do more for them with what we have. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Very supportive, pretty straightforward to get accommodations if you need them or help or guidance for when you need direction. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I take tasks from a queue and work them for my team's assigned department. Many of my tasks require some research and collaboration to learn about the character of a legacy system to deliver the requested change, fix, or data export.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Possibilities are good if you can play the game, I couldn’t but wish I could.  If you want to coast that is good and if you want to succeed, you better be pretty much perfect.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Having a personal life that is conducive to putting work first and foremost.  I couldn’t but wish I could have.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
I had some awesome years here and some terrible.  State government has a long way to go to being a healthy environment overall.  Individual depts can be great but the overarching theme is government.  Ugh

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Because of who I am, no day is ever typical.  Whether it is of my creation or not.

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