i work for fort dearborn currently, and i will never leave.
Pros
pay is good when you bust your butt and put your heart in everything you do. If you dont want to work do show up. It is a great place to work but you will have to work. I know the management team on a first name basis and i can honestly tell you they care about safety. The new gm Louie is by far the best boss i have the chance to work for and with. He takes my ideas to heart and dosent give me any bull ****.... Yes i understand that this lifestyle will not make me rich but i work four days on four days off and three days on and three days off. What other job will tell you to take three to four days off on a regular basis without getting fired. No where besides off or onshore. Which has great pay but no benifits outside of that little box. I worked for a prison before this job and just health for two was over four hundred a month and it wasnt good healt at that. Fort dearborn offers a wide array of benifts and for two i only pay less that fourty five dollars a week. So you can complain all you want. If you give this company your total focus and work hard you can move up within a couple of years.
Cons
Yes pay is not great but it is not terrible either. No team exercises. little commutation for the night shifts. Day shift gets 30 min to 2 hr meeting a day and the night shifts get told to get to work now. A real jip. But maybe i really didnt want to hear all that **** anyways. Still they should make any effort to convey the message in any form or fashion. Family favoritism is strong there. Some people screw around all night and everyone sees them and get told nothin but if i talk to someone for 2 min i get told why are you over here get back to work. Those same people get chewed out and then get told sorry for coming across like that while the other people in the chew session get told nothing afterwards. Man i wish i could get my point across to the higher ups but this is life so i will suck it up for another forty five more years.