Pros
Decent benefits and pay...that is about it.
Cons
1) Micro Managed to death...they expect emails are answered in real time. If not they would call and badger you about why the email took an hour to respond to. Ignoring the fact that you may be out making sales calls (aka - doing your job). 2) Too much redundancy in reports and Management...had to fill out a report that showed our pipeline on the intranet AND fill out a spreadsheet for top accounts AND have weekly sales meetings with a DM AND monthly sales meeting with the Group AND monthly safety meetings AND have quarterly Bulk Gas reviews. All together...these activities would take up almost 40 hours a month to complete creating one lost work week per month. Almost felt like upper management was trying to create meetings so they could duck making sales calls to their customers. 3) Total disregard for personal time... I would get calls from my boss at 6am on a day off or 8pm on a Friday with the expectation that I answer those calls...if I missed the call and he went to voicemail...you could expect be badgered for 20 minutes about why you didn't answer when you next spoke with them. Most of the time, these calls were not emergencies...they were calling to review an email that had been sent earlier in the day. 4) Management is a bunch of "yes" men that manage by gossip and hearsay- The management in Chicago is rife with "Yes" men. Management won't take the time to observe you firsthand or get to know you as a person...they will just ask other employees what they think of you and that is how they form their opinion. Once you get some "bad press" you will never get away from it. 5) Management lacks any type of time management tools. I spent more time sitting at my bosses desk while we were supposed to be doing a one on one for my sales pipeline and he would answer emails during the meeting or stop to look for a file or email that was sent to him for 15 minutes in the middle of the meeting.