Pluspunten
Benefits are okay, but really not even that good. Tuition remission is nice, but you're still going to have to pay a little bit, and it's hard to balance. The health insurance is really not that great. The students are the best part of this job, and it's frustrating when you desperately want to help them, but your superiors either do not care or understand.
Minpunten
First and foremost, management is wildly inconsistent. Some managers are great, but leave because they are undervalued, but the vast majority push all of their work onto their employees while taking the credit. Perhaps it's just my role (in the CFA Dean's Office) and my manager, but from what I hear from other employees (especially my age), it is not. I have worked here for 3.5+ years, consistently over-performed, and have not received the appreciation, compensation, or trust that is due. My boss takes the credit for my good work, and blames his shortcomings on me. I have no doubt he tells lies. Attempting to bring this to his boss was met only with gaslighting and hostility. Attempts to advance in the college were stymied, and hiring choices for the roles I went for were made that were detrimental to the college (i.e., they chose someone over me, for a director position that I have directly filled in for during two hiring processes, to favor someone who had been working their first 9-5 for less than six months, and subsequently, both their old role and their new role have crumbled as a result - all because my supervisor, very likely, did not want to lose me in my current role because she knows my boss could not do the job without me, and I bring much more to the table than the job description asks for (i.e., my experience in the college as a student, graphic design experience, etc.). I got my first decent raise after over 3.5 years working here, and am still horribly underpaid, struggling to support my fiance and myself. As we transitioned back to campus two summers ago, grace and understanding were preached as core values (i.e., understanding that some people would be dealing with intense trauma, lingering health anxiety, and just generally that some people would struggle more with the return than others, so there was a narrative that there would be understanding of this). This was not the case - at least, not for the two non-salaried workers in this office. All salaried staff had plenty of grace and flexibility, while my remote day was taken away the first week of October - after returning in the last week of August. Because I was "too depressed" - in other words, having too hard of a time managing my many, many neurodivergencies for the first time in two years. Grace and understanding? None at all. I've been treated as less than because my neurodivergencies are more visible, despite that not hindering my above-and-beyond work. I am consistently the one everyone in the office, and in fact the college, comes to when they need additional help, I have been the person to fill in for multiple different roles in times of turnover (which there has been a huge amount of - given the experiences I have detailed here, can you imagine why?), including, but not limited to, three administrative coordinators in the Dean's Office leaving, 1/3 of our graduate team, the SOT academic advisor, and the SOT director of admissions (twice). And yet, I remain underpaid and underappreciated. Hoping to be out of this role by September...