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No way to advance my career at VCU - Anonymous employee Virginia Commonwealth University Employee Review

2.0
Sep 20, 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Health insurance isn't too expensive

Cons

Impossible to get another job at VCU if you already work here as they require 3 contacts including your most recent supervisor. So if you work in an office that does not have a lot of staff members, they will all know you are looking for another job due to this rule. Pay is well below market rate especially for coordinator positions. PTO is grouped together so there is no separate sick leave, bereavement leave does not exist. My office is so short-staffed I can't take off work to utilize the only benefit worth working here for.

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Cons

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They care about the employees. There are multiple efforts to support everyone, it is a welcoming environment, HR is very supportive.

Cons

VCU is incredibly bureaucratic and poorly ran. Things move slow, very slow. More slow than normal universities should. It isn't just "oh this is academia, things move slow." It's legitimate poor management across multiple levels of leadership.

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