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Best advice I can give, if you are applying for an administrative role (Operations Assistant), do NOT do it. Management has an enormous disregard for people  in this position. They do not reward extra efforts. They have cut out almost all opportunities for overtime. No overtime for working holidays. I have been with the company for 2 and a half years and have interviewed twice for a promotion. I was denied both times while a colleague of mine, who has been with the company for 1 year with minimal experience, was promoted instead. The company is extremely over-inflated with Assistant Operations Managers (AOMs) as well so opportunities for growth from there are extremely limited and practically non-existent. Additionally, the company utilizes AOMs, who make significantly more money, to compensate for their short staffing of Operations Assistants, who making significantly less money. So if you are looking for a job that under pays, overworks, and has no career growth then this is the job for you.

Worst management ever experienced.  Most dangerous place ever work due to want cranes fixed in 15 minutes.  Most arogant & descriminating group ever met.  
Company needs a face lift!
Fire all managers.  Hire in ALL new people that hadn't been there forever.  Leave with todays times with new personel. Hire in new employees and contactors.  And make it a good place to work.  Ask a present person of Virginia Internetional Terminals.  They lost them and ALL going union finally because of ther horrible issue.  
Fore ever body good.  Wish the govenor would fore them all and start over!

If you are interested in gaining experience in this industry do yourself a favor, and try to get in with the ILA. The senior leadership side of this organization is absolutely horrible.

There’s this uncomfortable and wildly inappropriate relationship between the VP of Human Resources, a VP of Operations and a director of OCC. 

There’s zero diversity. Zero chance of promotion. No bonuses. The hours are so not allow for any sense of a work life/balance. Expect to work 12 hour shifts and rotate between nights and days every other month. You will work holidays and weekends. 

Just don’t. 


A typical day at work includes transferring personal records to electronic documents, answering the phones and distributing mail. I have learned that everyone is your supervisor. We all work as a team from the highest paid to the lowest paid. The culture of this organization is to always be on the path to seeing what can be done more efficiently to improve employee and customer relations. Communication. The most enjoyable part of the job are the people are friendly and genuinely care about people.

Can make good money and the insurance is great. But no personal life at all. And they don't care about your personal life. Upper management is the worse I've ever seen and worked at. If you have no family and just love working you will love it. If you love spending time with your family and enjoying life. Don't do it. Rules and schedule changes every 3 to 6 months you never know what your schedule is. They even force you to work your days off. And if you don't they write you up. 4 write ups your out the industry. Think hard about this place.

You are picked on daily and often behind closed doors from supervisors to people in upper management. HR will act like your friend but many in HR are well connected to the supervisors/upper management and best friends. Also people who are not white are told to not apply for jobs and not given promotions. I would stay away by all means. It is not what it seems. Very unprofessional and needs new management and all races should be treated the same!  

There are many progressive leaders here intent on making the process, infrastructure, and people changes necessary to position the port for continued growth.  The "new" ways and the "old" ways sometimes clash, however, everyone is trying to work in the best interests of the port.

There is a strong sense of family among many of the teams.

There are hundreds of great people you will meet, however the company itself is built to step on one-another to get ahead. Management underutilizes there resources. There are plenty of people that could help, but they choose people from the 'inner circle'.

The port provided an exciting and family like work atmosphere. I wish I would have never left. The people are hard workers and had each others back. The culture is one that creates accountability and helpfulness. I'd recommend working at The Port for anyone that's looking for lifetime employment.

A day without a challenge would be a dull day, not at the Port of VA. I had a privilege of working with excellent & amazing people. In any workplace there are deadlines and policy changes that usually comes up that will affect your department. Teamwork is vital to create a smooth transition and positive outcome

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