Pros
The individuals served and wonderful co-workers.
Cons
I was so full of hope, and so excited/motivated when I started working at Beacon, as I loved the clients, my co-workers and the company culture so very much -- feeling such potential, motivation and enthusiasm on so many levels. But in the end, my position and the company as a whole became one of the most hurtful and disappointing experiences of any job or any company I have ever been involved with. In looking back, the reality was that there just wasn't going to be a way for me to be successful in my role with the structure of the company being set up and run the way that it was/is...and yet the blame was consistently placed on me for not being able to be successful, when I have been overwhelmingly successful in every other position I have ever held in my life. It was truly just so defeating and disappointing, how all the life and energy that I came into my job with, was snuffed out over and over again until I knew that I was playing a losing game. And how the blame was placed on me for all of it -- rather than on the horrendously deep deficiencies within the infrastructure of the company, which is where the true problems resided. All of this caused myself and so many others to lose any and all sense of joy or fulfillment in our roles. I watched as friends and co-workers were in tears on a regular basis, and as they got reprimanded and subjected to employee disciplinary action despite how hard we all were trying to keep things running for ourselves, our sites and our persons-served. I try to not look back or reflect too much on it all because of the sadness and disappointment I still feel -- but in the end I am just grateful to have made my way out and to now be a part of a new company and team where I can again find joy, fulfillment and success in my work. I regularly find myself wishing that I could erase the memory of my time at Beacon from my mind altogether.