Think carefully and do your research before leaving another job. If it seems too good to be true, it just might be...
If you start working through a contractor, you will start with good Pay (though it will disappear if you need to pay for benefits). Everyone’s goal is that you make it through the first 6-12 months of extreme stress and the ‘hazing’ period as a contractor, as you feel like an outsider, then if you are “lucky” you get to go “perm”. That’s when they hit you with the pay cut. Yep that’s right! They drop your pay. So you will leave work Friday making one amount, then show up on Monday doing the same job for less money. That’s if you make it through the childish ostracizing. There is a definite disconnect between Navy Federal employees and Aerotek employees. Many of Navy Federal employees definitely seem to have a chip on their shoulder and it can make you feel like an outcast second class citizen if you let it. Everybody proudly and openly states “If you wanna become perm, it’s about who you know, not what you know”.
It seems like they are so anxious to grow, that they rush to promote supervisors, but they seem to promote the loudest in the group rather than the most competent for the job. Unfortunately the power is often mishandled and misused. This creates a revolving door of employee turnover at a rate of which I have never seen. Very unfortunate. It could be a great place to work if handled differently.
