Pros
Wide selection of insurance plans. Access to base gym.
Cons
Low pay. When they took over the contract, they cut everyone's paycheck. Then, they had issues keeping people on contract, because they were offering so low. There were no advancement opportunities whatsoever in pay, where they were willing to lose essential personnel rather than pay them what they're worth, but then brought in new people at higher wages who had zero experience. They intimidated employees who took two weeks or more combined vacation and sick time in a year. Ostensibly, both of these were "unlimited". In practice, this would not get supervisor approval, and the numbers ended up far lower than industry standard. Family medical benefits were more expensive than comparable marketplace plans. Disability insurance was also pretty expensive, but they were trying to convince people to go on short-term disability for the flu. Management was aimless, uncontactable, and endlessly in pointless meetings. Part of that might be the government's fault, but when you only see your boss when they're yelling at someone, it's not a great environment. This was compounded by a customer in US Stratcom where every time an officer can't get their facebook machine working they'd scream at the IT personel like their inability to waste time at work would cause the world to end in a nuclear fireball. At the end of the day, we were overworked, understaffed, and hemmoraging qualified people. It's only been a few months, but it seems that there's only 1-2 people who were qualified when I left still working in my previous work center... and I know they're looking for a new job, too.
