Pros
It was a good first job to get myself into education. I don't think I could have gotten my current role if I hadn't started at Extension so I am grateful for that. I was also able to experiment and I learned a lot of what NOT to do.
Cons
Management is terrible and nearly all of UNEXs problems can be diluted down to management issues. They play favorites, they promise things that are never delivered (usually the promise is extended to get you to do more work), they have outright LIED to my face. It's impossible to get any sort of promotion unless you are one of the favored few. They rarely promoted from within anyway, preferring to hire from outside instead. They have decimated entire teams just because they didn't like those particular managers. They gossip behind your backs, and tell subordinate employees things they have NO BUSINESS telling them because they are personal friends. Colleagues not even on my teams would know about changes to our teams before we even did, because they were part of the gossip mill. They don't care at all about their employees, especially lower level. They were alter your job, sometimes DRASTICALLY, without any warning or even a conversation to ask how you feel about it. They also love making sweeping top down changes on a whim without giving any thought to the fallout, usually leaving it to the low level employees to clean up the mess it makes (making new processes, finding loose threads, etc). As far as benefits, the pay is very low for this area but the benefits are decent. Dental and vision are free, health is cheap, and it's one of the few jobs that comes with a pension. I unfortunately was not able to last the five years to get vested...