Incompetent and frequently changing management emphasizes loyalty and punishes critical thinking
Pros
living in Athens, Ga. Helping educate people.
Cons
Co-workers have frequent opportunites to bond over frustrations with small-minded administrators. Management/administration ensure that workers never settle into their rising work load by always assigning a new task. Management might send you a list of the balance of every student on campus and ask you to call a hundred or more of them when you already have urgent deadlines. management doesn't pay attention to anything that matters. ready, fire, aim. co-workers are frequently disciplined for silly things. Management threatens people who "push back" by asking questions. thoughtful discussion is treated as insubordination. Students who complain get what they want. Many barriers to effective teaching and course customization. Never-expanding list of job requirements means new hires are immediately blown away by how different their job is from the one they thought they were starting. Management hires people to run vocational programs with little to no experience, sometimes recent graduates are running a program a year or 2 later. Almost all administrators have online degrees and have been promoted rapidly within the organization, making for an uncomfortable environment with top administrators constantly patting themselves on the back. Lower level administrators create lots of their own rules because they are always kept on their toes by the strict and changing expectations of higher administrators. Christian prayers are said before any kind of group meeting that involves food, which is inappropriate for a state organization. Pay raises don't happen every year and they're never more than 3%.
