This is not the placed for hard workers who are passionate about protecting the environment. This place is more gears towards senior employees who are just a few years from retirement and ready to just get by. Not the place for entry-level professionals. There is no mentorship, direction or deadlines on what your doing. Managers don't have a clue of what employees are doing and they don't care either. Most people in the building have a "it's just a paycheck" attitude and they really don't care about their work or the results of their performance. If you see the supervisors in the lab area, something must have gone wrong. There are employees that only come to work two or three times a week. Management won't deal with difficult employees. They just avoid the problems or expect the few hard working employees to solve their problems. Actually, the worst you perform the more you get promoted. Lots of favoritism. Lots of 65 and up, who won't retire, but won't perfom either. Many FTE's positions wasted. There is no communication between the employess. Most disagreements are dealt with employees yelling at each other, while the supervisors look the other way. I'm not sure how other agencies are, but I sure hope that there are some better ones out there. Don't waste your time applying here (not even volunteer, internships, etc) unless you just want a paycheck for getting by.
