I liked my coworkers but the people running things are out of touch
Pros
The people in my shop (with one exception) were some of the best I've ever had the honor of working with. Pay was decent, nothing spectacular. Did manage to do some personal projects on the side without getting into too much trouble
Cons
ugh, where to begin. Out health care was nothing to brag about the first year i worked there. They changed it the next year so the cheapest (all i could afford) had a $3000 deductible. I managed to find my own insurance provider, and was then told that I could not cancel my ABC insurance, even after I was told directly by HR that I could "cancel any time." Jumped through some hoops, got the necessary paperwork, and was told my insurance was cancelled. Only it wasn't. Me like a dummy never noticed them taking it out of my paycheck (why I hate direct deposit-as convenient as it is, with me sometimes out of sight = out of mind) So I managed to pay for TWO insurance packages for a year, and never used them. Mainly because even when I WAS sick, we were too understaffed for me to take time off and see a doctor. To add insult, I received a letter stating that I owed ABC about $300 for insurance costs after I finally got them to cancel the policy that I told them to cancel a year before. My manager quit because he was tired of getting phone calls from corporate at home on weekends, and because we had this one employee who was just toxic, and for some reason corporate refused to fire her. Funny thing was, I managed to get one write up the whole time I worked there and was "laid off" for it. This toxic employee (with multiple write-ups and complaints against him) was promoted to assistant manager after I was gone. Then when I tried to collect unemployment, I was told that I had been fired instead of laid off, and was unable to collect UC. After the unemployment hearing, the guy that fired me offered to go with me to Subway and "put a good word in for me." Would have preferred a slap in the mouth.
