Pros
The overall benefits are above average, and the pay is decent. I don't believe that CHS as a whole is a bad company. I believe I drew the short straw and ended up in the worst department, on the worst team, working with the worst cross-functional teams in the company.
Cons
I could write a dissertation on the things wrong with this role/team/department, but I'll try and keep it brief. The role: Not defined and ever-changing. Management won't define it because they themselves don't know this role or how you fit in within the department and cross-functional teams. This creates heavy friction between yourself and the cross-functional teams you're supposed to be working with, and you're caught in the crosshairs. When something goes wrong, management accuses you of failing a "responsibility" you were NEVER assigned in the first place. If you express that to management, they try to gaslight you into believing you always knew it was your responsibility. "We've always been at war with Oceania" - George Orwell, 1984. Management: Blatantly disrespectful, rarely present, provides zero guidance on your roles/responsibilities (and treats you like a nuisance if you ask while somehow not answering your question), and disorganized in a way I've never seen before. The management's ability to create a toxic and counterproductive work environment should be studied at universities. Cross-Functional Teams: The people I in theory was supposed to work with on those cross-functional teams had the maturity level of 6th graders. It was truly a spectacle. Maybe it's because I was in my 20s and hadn't been working at CHS for the last 25 years of my life, but man they were outright hostile any time I tried to work with them. I guess that's how you turn out when you spend a career in an organization like this. If you're young and don't have extensive experience in the agriculture space, do not work here. It is the most dysfunctional, passive-aggressive, and immature professional space I've had the misfortune of being in.
