| Category | Rating |
|---|
| Pay | -3 |
| Respect | -5 |
| Benefits | 0 |
| Job Security | -2 |
| Work/Life Balance | -4 |
| Career Potential/Growth | -5 |
| Location | -1 |
| Co-worker Competence | 0 |
| Work Environment | -5 |
Pay - What can I say? I used to work for the Feds and left 5 years ago to come to LM. By now I would have been a GS-11 Step 10 if I stayed in the Government- which is 2K more than I am currently making at LM after 5 years service. They suppress pay by lowballing some as an experienced professional - and once you are in - expect to receive some unfair reviews (and low or non-existent raises) in order to keep your salary down. That is if you are not connected. Also, they have a quota that so many must receive low ratings, regardless of performance. All while the CEO makes 25 mil. bonus every year.
Respect - No comment
Benefits - average
Job Security. We are going through a layoff drill right now.
Work Life Balance - they will work you into the ground if you let them. You're expected to make up personal time off by flexing out whenever possible. Moorestown is the only place to have a union - so therefore management still has to pay us for extra hours worked. If ASPEP goes it will be just like all the other branches - work 50 hours a week with no extra pay because they can now classify you as salaried.
Career Potential Growth - Get a Master's degree on their dime and bolt. The company lowballs experienced professionals - and then makes it difficult or impossible to get promoted to the appropriate level without going through HR/Union's protocol. They have ELDP for the young grads. They have System Engineering Rotational Program for older folks- I hear it used to be an honor to be selected for that program. In my experience, it just might be a politically correct way of management to dispose of people they consider excess. People are rotated to different departments for two years and nobody has a clue or a plan what to do with them when they graduate from this program. I found myself displaced after being put on this program and trying to come back to the department I started at. My management didn't have a job for me to come back to. Then I was encouraged to take a transfer in another department where I became trashed by that manager.
Location - average.
Co worker competence - Some are really excellent - the best in their field. Others are just getting by.
Coworker Environment - "Survivor" environment is just about right. I expect Donald Trump to appear any day now. Hostile, rude, intimidating, - rude. Performance reviews are rated on a "bell curve". You are told to set up Goals and Objectives. You meet them. You still get rated bad because you didn't rank well amongst your "peers" ). You ask what their goals and objectives are and management says they don't have to tell you. Your "peers" can also be your "multiraters." Your peers can badmouth you and it ends ups determining your low rating. One even took credit for my work and had negative input into my review. Not surprisingly, he ranked higher and got a better raise/review. I asked someone in HR what my "multiraters" (which I didn't pick) said about me - and the reply was "you'll never get that."
The union is no help because they are really part of management - you are on your own.