No light at the end of this tunnel
Pros
Good benefits. Telework and transit benefits are excellent. Good salaries if you work in a core business line. Good people to work with.
Cons
Management is incompetent. Most managers have worked in the Federal government their whole careers and don't know how to manage outside of the prescriptive policies of the bureaucracy. They have no vision. They hold fast to their fiefdoms. Transparency is a joke; they don't communicate with their own people let alone customers. There's no budget for training or travel. Bad as it is, it's going to get a lot worse when we go to a mobile work environment (no assigned desks). Consolidation of decision making in DC has hamstrung Regional offices, destroyed morale, and devastated productivity. No one can make a move without checking with DC first. Projects have been delayed for months for fear of running afoul of Central Office. Purchasing equipment is a bureaucratic nightmare that costs a thousand times more in employee time than the cost of the equipment.
