1. The Austin, TX office has completely outgrown their 1-floor work space. As a result, most of the over 150 employees either sit in "bullpens" or else sit at long conference room tables within conference rooms. This type of seating arrangement can be very distracting. Many employees regularly wear headphones and listen to music, to drown out the chatter.
2. The senior level manager of the office is obnoxious, has a personally insulting style sense of humor, hinging on inappropriate behavior. Example: an unknown co-worker once burned some food in the break room's toaster oven. A strong burnt smell filled the tiny office area. In response, the senior level manager sent a company-wide email, to wit: "I know what you did. When I find you, I will kill you".
3. The team that I worked on has one employee who harasses others and has a track record for inappropriate behavior, and has received multiple complaints by other employees over a span of years. Management is untrained with how to manage it, or else has no desire to manage it. Its a distraction and a harassment problem.
4. There is no real sense of job security. This business gets contracts with the state. These contracts can be bid on by competitors, per state law. The business could go up in smoke at any time.
After 3 months of being on staff full-time, I chose to resign, due to the aforementioned issues.
