At least in my office, the PCs are also the ones responsible for answering the office phone, cleaning the kitchen, stocking the snacks, ordering food, and sorting the mail. Not really objectionable work, but you will hear about it if you don’t stay on top of it in addition to your actual project work, which has deadlines and can pile up quickly.
The PCs in my office have to handle all the state wage and diversity reporting for each project which could be its own full time job (and in fact it is a separate dept/position in other JED offices).
The role seems undervalued from a culture standpoint and I feel like an overlooked, invisible member of my project teams most of the time, except when sudden critical deadlines pop up and everything cascades down to the PCs desk with no warning.
The position is hourly and I feel an inordinate amount of scrutiny on how my time is accounted for despite my clear work ethic.
The role doesn’t pay enough. There was no negotiation room for compensation during the hiring process and I struggle to make ends meet. The effort:reward ratio is not good. I feel like 75k would be better justified but I was told by their talent acquisition person at the offer that my 60k offer was one of the highest he’d seen for this position.
The office struggles to keep the Project Coordinator positions filled. They should have 5 or 6 but only have 3, and have not been able to attract applicants since my hire. All the current PCs are overworked.
Work from home is restricted to one day a week, for no apparent reason other than middle management control, despite the fact that we are arguably more productive at home. And when we do work from home, our performance is micromanaged through Microsoft Teams metric rather than any actual work done.
Health insurance through this company is expensive.