Pros
- great projects - interesting work
Cons
If you are a term employee you are a second-class citizen even while doing the same or better work than permanent employees. You are are not eligible to apply for permanent positions no matter how many years you serve as a term. You are not eligible to go on details to gain experience. Many permanent employees are fat and happy and very lazy... yearly reviews mean nothing. There are absolutely no consequences for bad work, late completions and delays, or even bad behavior, etc. Terms have to keep re-applying for their positions. And now if you are not a veteran you can forget it. There is an infestation of bad managers who could care less about their employees. My former boss decided project assignments on looks and personality... if you didn't play, you got the crap assignments, got assignments taken from you, etc. Very demoralizing environment for a woman. But I was not about to play the flirty bimbo. In hindsight I wish I would have explored the possibility of a class action lawsuit. Some of the things I experience and witnessed seemed to be violating multiple regulations and policies as far as hiring are concerned. The human resources staff are the most clueless people on the planet, yet they are in charge of deciding YOUR future. Most of them can barely string a sentence together properly, could care less about employees or getting the best person for the job in the job. They are completely removed from the actual needs of the agency. They just want to check off boxes and get a computer to add up the points. Because of their incompetence I have learned the hard way that I need to spell out every task and accomplishment because they will never be able to infer. Yeah, that's why my resume is over 10 pages long.
