LAX Customs Broker - Wage Slave Job
Pros
-If this is your first time job you will learn real fast that hard work does not pay, and you will learn about the politics of working a slave wage job. -Employee deaths are emailed to everyone regularly, this is to help employees watch out for potential promotions.
Cons
-Everyone hates their job, including managers. Most all of the older managers want 0 innovation as this would cause for them to learn something. Management wants a stable income and desk level employees better not interfere with this. -Useless managers. Majority of the management is absolutely useless and are disrespectfully detached from the desk level employees that do 100% of the work. 100% of responsibility is held at the desk level. Supervisors and Managers are not held accountable as they technically only oversee their accounts and don't directly interact with anything. -Promotion is based on favoritism. If you don't get regular small talk from a manager that likes you, quit immediately. -Low pay. -Difficult to leave due to low pay. -Non-flexible hours, you can neither be 1 minute late or early. Mandatory 1 hour lunch. -Reprimanded for going on vacation. -People show up to work while they are sick as using sick time is frowned upon. You must call in sick and confirm to them that you are sick. -Mandatory overtime. You cannot leave until the job is done.