- Because you'll be hired as a contractor for the government, you'll work with outdated software languages and development methodologies
- Retired military personnel are routinely, and as policy, paid less than their civilian counterparts who do the same thing
- There are extremely limited opportunities to advance beyond what you were originally hired to do
- You start with two (2) weeks a year vacation, but it takes fifteen (15) years of employment with company to get to four (4) weeks
- Absurd timekeeping policies require salaried employees to account for EVERY minute of the day in three different time tracking systems
- Mid-level management selected due to technical competence and senior management familiarity instead of known management abilities
- Incompetent mid-level management do a poor job of determining fair and equitable standards, making them known, and applying them to all employees
- Incompetent mid-level management do not identify specific duties and swim lanes for individual positions and fail to communicate them if known
- Requirement to keep government happy and generate additional business necessitates numerous cumbersome and inefficient processes precluding employees from accomplishing anything and achieving any real job satisfaction