postdoctoral associate

administrative assistant

facilities assistant

associate professor

dental assistant

University at Buffalo - SUNY

Worked m-f 11:30PM to 8am overnight cleaning. It is a union job, so after a year you can call off every day and never get fired, but during that year if you miss 3 days you are fired no matter what. No year+ people do anything cause they don’t have to. The money is really low, and raises take forever. It’s perfect for someone wants to work for a year and then do nothing, leaving all the new people to pick up the slack. Totally understaffed, first paycheck takes 5-7 weeks, training and onboarding is horrendous, we were shoveling snow during our HR orientation days cause they were short staffed. Orientation they don’t prepare you at all for what your job will be, they just stick people wherever there is a hole, and don't take into account merit or anything. Employees sleep on the job and hide for their entire shifts and line up at the time clock at 6 am to clock out at 8. they take one day out of each of your first 5 checks to give to you when you leave the job, for no apparent reason. HR doesn’t get back to you when you call,
the union in unresponsive. Management is done
by a third party with different goals and standards. They don’t actually do safety trainings they just make you sign a sheet that you did them. They don’t communicate with you at all about your attendance, or job performance. There is optional OT that you can sign up for, but it takes even longer to get paid for OT shifts, i left a month ago and they still aren’t finished paying me.
Just a very bad job experience and the pay does not make up for it. 


WBFO is a NPR affiliate that operates as a public service of the University at Buffalo. Initially this was a telemarketing position through the University work study program established by the UB Foundation to help support and generate awareness for NPR. 
Upon joining the organization I was rapidly promoted through a series of progressively responsible positions resulting in 2 paid internships. 
As a marketing intern I would assist with gathering background data on prospective donors and listener profiles to support database management and the coordination of call out projects for membership and underwriting support. I gained event planning and publicity skills learning logistics of coordinating and orchestrating a variety of special events; community based festivals, concerts, benefits and receptions. As a marketing and development intern I went on to assist with coordinating fundraising and call out efforts in addition to conducting surveys and compiling data pertaining to underwriting support. Developed creative strategies and leveraging opportunities for effective fundraising from a variety of sources. Learned to orchestrate direct mail campaigns, matching grant campaigns and silent drive campaigns.  Although it was difficult to attend school full time while working these paid internships were ultimately advantageous in obtaining the position of Development Director for KUNV at UNLV shortly after graduating.

A typical day at work would consist of cleaning the lab area, a task that was repeated several times throughout the day as students came in and out. Cleaning and testing equipment was conducted weekly, and in my downtime I manned the lab's office and distributed work materials to the students. Occasionally I would help with office work such as filing and organization. 
The many things I took away from this job include interpersonal cooperation, office skills, organization skills, and some skills with tools.
The management of the lab was hands-off. My direct supervisor was kept busy with his own work, and after assigning tasks, he left me and my co-workers to our own devices.
My coworkers and I worked closely together. We divided the work among us, and often were required to come up with creative solutions to finish our work without disturbing the students.
The hardest part of my job was testing containment showers and eyewash stations. It was a time consuming task which required at least two people, and often resulted in being splashed by water.
The most enjoyable part of the job was interacting with the dental students. They were kind enough to be accommodating when we moved around the lab, and often grateful that we cleaned their workstations and equipment so often.

During a typical day I was responsible for assisting professors with classes (i.e. grading papers and exams, keeping track of attendance, printing and making copies of documents, uploading assignment online and delivering guest lecture). After two years of assistance I was then responsible for teaching my own class which included creating course syllabi, assignments, exams, and gradebooks. I was also responsible for responding to students queries as well as keeping regular office hours during the week. My public speaking and my teaching skills have as well as my knowledge within various fields of sociology (i.e. social research methods, deviance, and criminology) improved significantly, as well as my reading and writing skills. I had very little management other than replying to the professors I was assisting as well as occasional requests from the department. My co-workers were generally nice to be around. The hardest part of the job was working in a relatively small office space, although I was able to manage this by moving to various locations within the office and on campus to complete work. The most enjoyable part of the job was meeting with students to discuss ideas for assignments as well as questions regarding the material.

This job was basically to determine the budget for the undergraduate students, and determine where the money that every attending student pays to the Student Association will be spent. There were bi-weekly meetings to determine the upcoming bi-weekly spending and account the previous bi-weekly spending's.

This job was crucial in helping me understand how to work with large groups of people, and allocate large sums of money from one branch to another through reasoning members of student association to only think in a set way. This was also the hardest part of the job, each member had different clubs and organizations that were responsible for their votes, and thus they had obligations to increase the semester budget to say 15k-20k, but which meant shortening other clubs that others were reliable to. It was a great task and learning experience to be able to get everyone thinking in unison.

I learned to manage effectively, became leader of 11 other senators that were elected. Became the member of the finance committee, which further my involvement in our monetary system that was set up. Updated the system that was previously set up. And I found what I wanted to do in life was to sell and trade, and found biology which i always liked was not what i wanted to do.

A typical day as a teacher's assistant involved teaching one or two biology labs. In this course, we were given a set of guidelines of what to teach, but were allowed to present it in a manner we felt comfortable with. In addition, we had to make homework assignments, and quizzes, which we then had to grade. We were also responsible for proctoring and grading exams. We had to have office hours each week and make our selves available whenever the students needed it.
I learned how to manage students and take control in a classroom setting, while improving my time management skills. The management was friendly and always available to talk when there were concerns. They led by example, and did a great job in doing so.
The most challenging aspect of this was definitely time management. I had to work with my students, while taking classes myself, and then leave time to work out the next class and grading assignments. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience, but I'd say getting the opportunity to teach was my favorite part.

Fast paced job environment that increased my experience with managing and supervising a large number of staff and helping to revamp a previously broken down business operations into a thriving and more positive one. 

Learned to operate a large business operation and increase my effectiveness at multitasking and increasing new patient enrollment and keeping collection rates low. 

Hardest part of the job was not being able to make decisions and changes quickly within a state environment and trying to incorporate new ways in doing things without resistence and the "We've always done it this way mind set". 

The most enjoyable part was leading a great team and evolving their work attitude to an enjoyable one where they wanted to come to work and be a part in achieving goals and productivity. Also, the interactions amongst patients, staff, and students and the problem solving involved on a daily basis. Being involved in out reach programs and helping to develop and participate in them and being a lead on the upcoming CODA accreditation and computer conversion and much more. The position itself was very enjoyable.

A typical day begins with the preparation of lesson plans, course schedules, grading and the instructing adult students. 

I have learned that todays individual students have many learning styles that work from traditional textbook based instruction to internet assisted course supplemental materials and online training courses. 

I find it important to share information with other Instructors in planning future pilot programs and understanding the direction of future employment trends in WNY. 

The hardest part of the job to me is motiving students to follow a career plan while dealing with the daily issues of child care, criminal records, long term unemployment and re-learning how to learn.

The most enjoyable part is to see the student that you helped graduate, get a meaningful position using the skills taught by members of the EOC faculty.

So a lot of these questions don't pertain to the position I worked as a student. I worked in the Libraries. They did try to work around your class schedule, but sometimes messed up and then left it to employee to fix being scheduled at a time not listed as available by employee. 

Work was mostly easy and low stress; student and staff managers were always respectful and sometimes fun to talk with. 

Pay was ridiculously low (minimum wage for student assistants and one dollar above that for student coordinators, who are like shift supervisors) and student workers are not eligible for unemployment, which is bonkers. Grad students are shut out of the grad student union because that's only for TAs and such, which is silly when the libraries actively prefer to hire masters and phd students. They don't need to pay competivly because international students in need of a job cannot work off campus. It's kind gross that way. 

Overall? My time there was mostly pleasant if sometimes dull. Made some cool friends and appreciated that management respected our intelligence.

They are a good company for new managers to start.  The training program is very good and well thought out, but after you complete the training and have a year under your belt they have moved on to the next person.  You drive yourself to do better when you can.  The work load and outside life is very unbalanced in the busier units.  Upper management is kind to you in person but has taking away the moral and team building options.  They have become focused on building the food-service department and not having staff in the units to sustain this growth. Therefore burn out and frustration occur.  I was very happy in the beginning for my career here and during the last 1.5 years of my time with them I hated coming to work.  The inconsistency of my schedule, the lack of support I felt when disciplining staff and the lack of outside life were the main reasons for me leaving.

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