senior support specialist

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University Missouri St.Louis

This is by far the worst place I’ve ever worked. UMSL does not have a pulse on today’s workplace. They expect you to work long hours for very little pay. They don’t respect a work/life balance, and they want you to make your job your number one priority— or your life or happiness. Furthermore, the pay is considerably below average—pathetic actually. It’s a 45-hour or more work week, and the pay doesn’t reflect that, unless you are someone in higher administration. I encourage to check the salaries (STL Post Dispatch) of the higher admin. You’ll notice people like the Chancellor and those in similar roles will make close to $300,000 a year. I understand their roles are tough, but that’s a ridiculous amount to pay someone, especially when the bulk of the employees make little to nothing. Also, UMSL claims to promote diversity and inclusion. It’s the exact opposite. They speak about it, but their actions do not show this. Also, the workplace is very toxic. They have the old school mentality of this is the 8 to 5 and you have to work within those hours and not miss work. They don’t believe in flexibility. They don’t value their employees. They don’t do anything to promote a positive workplace. In fact, they take away incentives and benefits. They operate through fear. Fear that you’ll get fired, fear that budgets will be cut if you don’t get retention up, fear that you’re being watched… this is a university that should be ahead of the times, but they’re actually way behind the times. 

If you have the opportunity to work there, don’t. Go to another university in the area that will pay you what you deserve, respect you, and value you. 

I worked at Chuck E cheese for a good year. Unless you can handle screaming children who are out of control and their parents can’t watch them I wish you good luck. The job overall was OK but dealing with kids was an absolute nightmare. Parents would let their children run around like crazy not watching them kids would do stuff that could potentially get themselves hurt parents would get mad when we would correct their child. The pay at the job was okay. Management overall was pretty easy to work. The employees were OK most of them were kids themselves some would work and someone not. If you’re looking to get experience to working with kids I would recommend this job for you otherwise if you cannot handle children I would not recommend this job. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
The TEAM of Professional s coworkers, everybody work like a team and of course the “management “ work under the leadership of mister Starky very good experience.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
N /A 
They trained me for success.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Safety  1st.provide the best to 1 students. And team of professionals in different areas “ teachers”



What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Very bussy 2 nd  shift trying to feel all what job demand

like most universities, UMSL is a great place to work, but like most unversities there is a strong 'political' attitude among certain faculty members which makes working in a fair and impartial enviroment, impossible. Just wanted to manage my dept. not play power games which only hurt others' livelyhoods. Not my cup of tea.

At a university, the experience can vary widely from one department to another. I've been here 20 years, and I don't want to leave. I'm happy with most parts of the job and I enjoy a sense of being on a supportive team. New people coming in, though, will make higher salaries than many of us loyals. The higher levels of the place frustrate me, but more local, I enjoy working in my area.  I find it challenging it great ways and I've grown very comfortable here.

Halloween has always been my favorite holiday,  which is probably why this was one of the best jobs I've ever had. I got to stock and sale really interesting costumes. We were encouraged to wear accessories to make them visible to the customers for purchase, which was fun.
My favorite part was helping kids pick out their costumes, or help them pair accessories, make up, wigs, etc.

The crew working with me were amazing, and the managers were the  best.

It was rocky at first because there was a lot of changes in motion when I onboarded. Everyone seemed stretched very thin due to staff shortage and this was prior to the pandemic. Things started getting better shortly before my resignation. Hopefully it stayed on the same track. Insurance was very expensive, but the vacation time and retirement matching was excellent. Pay is low if you don't have a college level degree.

As an international orientation leader, I worked for the UMSL international student office for two weeks. We brought and showed students from all over the world the st.louis local cultures and customs. Also, we introduced the campus to students so that they would get quicker to get familiar with this environment in the future.

Managers would treat you either like you were the best employee or like a piece of trash and there was no way of knowing when or why. Communication was awful and no training was provided. Manager was a bully and HR acted understanding when you spoke to them, but did nothing. There was always conflicts between offices and high turnover. Lots of pettiness and clique behavior.

It feels that sometimes student employees are taken for granted or deceived as the job description doesn't always match the actual work. Overall, however, the work isn't so terrible, hours are flexible that one can still go to class and have time to study, and we get paid well and may even get benefits like free housing.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Senior support specialist 2 salaries reported	$20.50 per hour
Academic advisor 3 salaries reported	$43,333 per year
Philanthropy manager 2 salaries reported	$77,736 per year
Business support 6 salaries reported	$18.44 per hour
Police officer 5 salaries reported	$26.26 per hour

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