Pros
working in a very technical and specialised field meant that Very Senior Managers left you alone because they hadnt a clue what it was all about, so lots of lone working but this meant that 'engineers' who know nothing if it doesnt have rivets and girders stood gentlemanly to one side and let those who know get on with it
Kontras
at the mass induction day at some forlorn hotel conference facilty we were all asked what we had heard about Mace before joining - ie, whats the word on the street: I was shouted down by the roving HR people manning the ramparts when I said the 'the word on the street' is Mace will work you til you drop, suck you dry and then throw you out. Three years later after an average of 63 hours a week, every week that is, redundancy looms because of a return to 'core business'