Pros
- The people: You become friends with them, enjoy working with them, talking with them, and they really make the job bearable - Paid sick days are no longer counted against you as long as you're not abusing it, but more people are taking "sick" days now because work is just stressful and overwhelming and sometimes you need to have a day to yourself; so this can be a pro and con - The office tries to boost morale with quarterly catered lunches, raffles, potlucks, and an occasional event outside of work - We do get a bonus once a year
Cons
- understaffed so work becomes overwhelming - office morale is low and tensions are high - no one cares anymore, people just do the bare minimum and leave right when work is over, there is no more dedication or hard work - there is a high turnover rate in this industry, but with Hapag Lloyd they are understaffed but HQ will not approve more employees because they don't think it is necessary - I don't think HQ or level 1-3 management has any idea how bad office morale is or how stressful and overwhelming work is - after the merger with UASC the new way with HLAG was horrible, the process and structure was terrible and the way they run their ops is inefficient.