Pros
You really can't beat the vacation time!! And flexible start time is a real plus. The building is located in a beautiful area, lots of wildlife around!
Cons
I'm tempted to say: too many to mention. While the vacation time is pretty impressive and hard to beat, the salary is low. Over the years that I've been with the company, the whole atmosphere has changed. In the beginning, prior to becoming a public company (stock(, employees were valued and morale was high. It was fun to come to work! Once we became public, it changed. Employees are not valued at all. Let me list some examples. Mandatory overtime. Yes, mandatory. As in you have to work every Saturday for so many hours, and if you don't they threaten to write you up. I am curious if that's even legal. And it's been mandatory for over ten years in my department. Oh and they told us on July 3, that we would be required to work on either July 4 or5 and we didn't get the three day holiday weekend. Beyond that, if we worked in July 4, we did not get paid extra because it was our CHOICE to work that day. Really? And to cover themselves, they made us fudge our time sheets to look like we worked on the day after the holiday so they didn't have to pay us. No value on employees. Another prime example of not caring for employees comes in the form of relocation. We were told in March 2013 that our jobs were being moved to North Carolina. If we wanted to relocate, we had to reapply for our positions and hope we get it. Keep in mind, on the conference call with the VP he mentioned they were moving for the talent pool. That right there shows they don't want to keep is. We were then told that in RI we are so under budget that we are not being paid the correct amount for our zones and levels. But that's too bad because they aren't going to raise out salaries here. When we found out we were relocating, we were told what we would make of we were to go to NC. Turns out the salary there was about 5K more. Which is funny because they should actually make less than us down there. The in June 2013, we were told that they weren't relocating us "right now". And even though we were told our salaries would be more down there, there still is not enough in the budget to match what we actually should be making. They acknowledge we are under paid and make no attempt to fix it. Now we are awaiting another decision on if we are relocating or not. Very hard to stand my a company that has such little regard for their employees. We have families and there is not work life balance. I could keep going, but I won't ramble. Just really think out your decision to work for this company. I will also point out my department is on the Life side, not the Auto and Home side. Maybe not all of our company is like that.
