What's your favorite and least favorite thing about your job?

Gorby

What are your favorite and least favorite things about your job? For me I enjoy the opportunity to learn & study...but my least favorite would be the long hours.

RHEL

Like: 5min commute, great pay, $20/mo family health insurance, great vacation/pto/sick time, weekly work day offsite, summer flex time, wearing blue jeans and tennis shoes, on-site gym, annual training, ergonomic specialists, volunteer days, tuition reimbursement, good cafeteria, company paid pension and 401k match, brand new phone and laptop every 2 yrs, work from home policy, great co-workers, challenging work

Dislike: Working 1.5hrs away from the rest of my team, being the new guy

gbdavidx

damn, RHEL who do you work for? those are awesome benefits!!

kohr-ah

gbdavidx wrote: »

damn, RHEL who do you work for? those are awesome benefits!!

No kidding right!?

As for me:
Likes = Good team to work with, good work home life balance, pays well
Dislikes = Outsourced to MSPs more than I like but we are trying to bring things back internal, hour long commute via train downtown

Gorby

RHEL wrote: »

Like: 5min commute, great pay, $20/mo family health insurance, great vacation/pto/sick time, weekly work day offsite, summer flex time, wearing blue jeans and tennis shoes, on-site gym, annual training, good cafeteria, company paid pension and 401k match, brand new phone and laptop every 2 yrs, work from home policy, great co-workers, challenging work

Dislike: Working 1.5hrs away from the rest of my team, being the new guy

Sounds like I'm working for the wrong company lol..those are some great benefit s.

RHEL

Oh... Just a regional non-profit (yet profitable) organization on the East coast. They're pretty big on work-life balance. Smaller companies (<10,000) are the best IMO!

OfWolfAndMan

The good: Vacation time, 5 min commute (also), decent health and life insurance, on-site gym, challenging work, TA, some co-workers are good to work with and learn from
The bad: No OT pay, the pay itself (IMO), somewhat lacking in work-life balance, no cert reimbursement, advancement in the job itself is somewhat lacking as once you learn the fundamentals, it's all supervising from there.

RHEL

Best benefit ever:
UTC offered full tuition reimbursement up front (100%) and something like $25K worth of stock options once you completed it

Worst ever:
Last job was a 30min commute and had to park in an employee lot (a ways away) where shuttles were unpredictable and could add up to an additional 30 mins each way to your workday.

kohr-ah

Best benefit ever:
Full Certification Reimbursement if you stayed for 18 months (Including CCIE Boot camp's etc) and I paid 200 a month for PPO BCBSIL Insurance

Worst ever:
Worked downtown and had to take the train to work (This wasn't bad), then walk 2 miles to get to my work, and was on call 24x7x365 (I didn't get to see my family a lot.. at all)

Polynomial

I can't think of a single thing so far I don't like about Salesforce. Benefits, pay, culture, people, training, career development- all tier 1.

Hell, I've already been asked what I want to do with my career.

devils_haircut

I work for a K-12 school district. My official title is Desktop Support, but I touch switches, servers, VM's, phones (not VoIP, sadly), web filter, user accounts, and so on. Basically everything.

Pros:

Environment, people, atmosphere, basically my own boss, lots of good experience for what is basically a tier 1 position, $3,000 annual training reimbursement after my first year, lots of time to study up for certs or degree, fairly relaxed dress code (polo and slacks environment with casual Fridays and no real dress code during breaks and summer).

Cons:

Pay, time off

Honestly, I really like the job. I wish I wasn't living paycheck-to-paycheck, though. Just a small bump would make all the difference.

W Stewart

Haven't started working at my new job yet but my guess is going to be the lack of hardware and networking devices since it's a cloud based company. I'm going the linux admin route though and have had enough hands on experience with server hardware and cisco firewalls at my previous job though so it's not a deal breaker for me.

As far as the most recent role I've worked in, that would be a tough one. As much as I hated the night shift, I'd have to say that my least favorite part was all the downtime. Hard to learn and advance in your career when you're just sitting around doing nothing for 12 hours.

Gorby

W Stewart wrote: »

Haven't started working at my new job yet but my guess is going to be the lack of hardware and networking devices since it's a cloud based company. I'm going the linux admin route though and have had enough hands on experience with server hardware and cisco firewalls at my previous job though so it's not a deal breaker for me.

As far as the most recent role I've worked in, that would be a tough one. As much as I hated the night shift, I'd have to say that my most least favorite part was all the downtime. Hard to learn advance in your career when you're just sitting around doing nothing for 12 hours.

I know where your coming from with the 12 hours night shift and all the downtime...it gives a t in of time to study but sometimes I felt like 12 hours was just too long for downtime.

bermovick

Best thing: 99% of the time there's nothing to do (great for studying!)
Worst thing: 99% of the time there's nothing to do (no real practical experience being gained)