Good job, restricted buy budget concerns - Chemistry Technician TVA Employee Review

3.0
Feb 11, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Salary: All employees are paid well, according to industry standards Benefits: 401K is one of the best matches in the industry, health insurance is relatively inexpensive, supplemental insurance is inexpensive Work/Life balance: Sick leave, Annual leave is plenty and supervision always tries to accommodate

Cons

Budget: TVA is operated off a debt ceiling. They do not run like a for profit business. This leaves them with finding ways to reduce expense, vice increase revenue. The easiest way to reduce expense is reduce employees. There have been "voluntary" lay offs every year since I've been here, and "re-org's" every other year, which results in reduced head count. Work load: work load is high. There is the same amount of work, with less people to accomplish it. They are not good at introducing technologies that help with this

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Cons

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