Pros
use military training and experience and stay affiliated with professional soldiers and to recruit and train the future officers of the US Army
Cons
- once hired, the company doesn't want to even hear of you except to file semi-monthly time cards on-line, annual performance evaluations, and once or twice per year for supervisor visits to the job site; and they act like processing travel directed by the client agency or requests for accrued vacation time (or time off for military reserve duty) are a seriously unreasonable imposition upon them - they extremely low-ball initial salary offers (I negotiated up to almost double what they first offered me, and it was still below what I should have received for the work that was required) and then refuse to renegotiate for a higher amount - the company expects employees to work regular office hours Monday to Friday, 8 to 5, plus any evening or weekend requirements, including travel time, without any additional pay nor compensatory time off, nor any consideration for those times when the client supervisor walks in at 4 pm and says that they need an eight-hour project by 7 am because of the time difference to submit it to the higher headquarters - when the company can't fill a required position, they expect others to help fulfill the work requirements without any additional compensation nor consideration - pay increases received during the preceding three to five years are often rescinded when the contract is re-bid - for three of the years, the maximum benefits of the dental and optometry policies were less than the cumulative premiums for the respective coverages - people think that you're getting rich as a government contractor rippin' off the Army, or that you're already rich because you're retired from active duty, even if you're not receiving a pension, and if you didn't negotiate for more than the extremely low-ball initial salary offer - there is no company provided training or professional development, other than that actually required and provided by the ROTC client, and no career advancement potential unless one can transition to an actual civil service government employment position, which was rare when I worked there - management, supervision, and administrative roles are all filled by members of the "good ol' boy" network - client agency personnel can have you fired just because they don't like you, such as, after three successive commanders were highly pleased with your work, the forth can decide that he or she doesn't like you, and you're out with no notice and no severance package at all - the subcontracting situations amplify all of these cons even more