Pros
- the company helps save lives, you never have to worry about what your company does (if you don't think about this, you really should) - bonuses for salaried/exempt employees are quite good if you are in EMSC or EmCare, not if you are in AMR (EmCare growing explosively, conversely AMR revenue very stable, but routinely doesn't meet or exceed plan by very much) - very rare to have layoffs, if you work hard and do your job well it seems you can be there for as long as you choose - there are a few very talented people who you can learn from and with, figure out who they are quickly and take advantage of the opportunity before they leave
Cons
- everybody is overworked and burned out, even managers and directors, even the ones who enjoy what they do, we all know the bottom line is our company saves lives and we give it everything we have, until we have nothing left to give - work can be sloppy and slipshod from everybody even the good people, theres just too much to do and not enough people to do it, nobody can give a problem the attention it deserves - very few if any opportunities for promotions and meaningful salary increases, even for the best employees - the most talented employees finally give up working hard for a promotion or fighting for a salary increase, get tired of having no work/life balance and burnout, leave after a few years - employees don't feel they have a voice (doing an internal opinion survey once every four years and not really changing what truly matters to employees doesn't count) dont know that this belongs in the cons section, but as a side note to the reviewers who say the corporate office in Denver has no idea what goes on in the field: i'm in corporate, and from a high level, we all know very well what is on the line and work our hardest to support as best we can because we truly do know lives are on the line. but if you want to go to the day to day struggles of the field, on the very detailed trenches level the criticism is true, doesnt matter if you're in HR or accounting or IT or benefits, it's very rare that corporate knows the day to day of what goes on in the field, whether its AMR or EmCare. the are many corporate people who care and want and try to know more because it helps do your job better, but you cant really know unless you are there day in and day out I guess, always seems there is more to learn but no gas left in the tank at the end of the day to learn what you should
