Pros
Easy to get the job, long and drawn out but an easy process Cheap food from the work kitchen Can be easy to move around, only due to high staff turnover. Cameras and screens on the phones, calling between depots is much more personalised, it makes it much easier to build rapport with colleagues outside of your own branch.
Kontras
Low pay, particularly for grads. Grads earn $56K for a 45 hour week. Others earn $60K+ for the same or less hours, coming into the work place with just as little industry experience, but with no tertiary qualifications. Overtime is only paid to some employees, some just have to work until the job is done, even when the workload has increased. No paid maternity leave. No leave loading. No structure to the grad program, this is used as a selling point initially, just wait until you are begging to get out of a crappy role which isn’t teaching you anything, and they make up rubbish reasons to keep you in that role, usually just because they are understaffed and you’re already trained up for that role. They’ll just hire someone new to do the role you’re looking at, it’s easier for them to do that than train you for a new role AND a new person for your old one. Job ambiguity, it’s easy to be expected to do work not within your job description because “no one is above anything and we must all help each other” meanwhile some people don’t even do their own work and others are always picking up after them. They pride themselves on the “Ready, fire, aim” philosophy, even with regards to safety (or lack there of) in operations and training of new employees. Sooooo much nepotism. I have worked in gossipy workplaces before, most of them are, but this is like been in high school again. Highly toxic work environment, which is exacerbated by the open plan office.