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Environmental Protection Agency

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At first a great place to work, then politics, bureaucracy, and fear become apparent. - Anonymous employee Environmental Protection Agency Employee Review

2.0
Nov 7, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good work-life balance with compressed schedules and work from home. An immense learning experience, especially for those few capable of rotating to other offices or divisions.

Cons

Politics and fear control a defensive management. Unnecessary internal bureaucracy creates a mentally painful and exhausting work flow. Ratings and reviews on this site, and internal satisfaction surveys or complaints, do very little to motivate management to truly improve or change anything. Politics, Inspector General investigations, and fear of reprisal are the main forces for change or maintaining the status quo. Any change that does occur is in direct response to these pressures. It will likely get worse before it gets better.

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