DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Employer Reviews

I enjoyed working with them. It was a fast past job and the people were easy to get along with

I sampled grain and by products that would be unloaded from a barge to a ship or another barge. Inspected ship holds and witnessed ship fumigations. I learned about organization and how to become an independent worker,manage and keep a work related situation under control.Management at Federal Grain was great. Majority of the employees have been there – more...  for over 20 years so they have a lot of knowledge and experience to pass down to the newer employees that can either help or hender your work experience but once I became familular with the environments I had my own way of managing my work while still staying under fereral guidelines. The hardest part about this job was over coming my fear of heights because I was required to climb and lift but once I did that I loved everything about working for Federal Grain. If I found something too difficult for me to handle,my coworkers were always there with a helping hand. – less

.Grading rib eyes and defining the age of cattle carcass.
.Many different cuts ,qualities and names of higher end meat.
.Very knowledgeable and understanding.
.Great group of people to work with.
.Learning all of the regulations.
.Dealing with the cold of the freezer.

Inspected whole chickens for human consumpyion. Learned about various pathologies and inspection techniques. Great infrustructure with fairly good employees. The wear and tear on the body was the most hardest part of the job. The learning was the most enjoyable part of the job.

A typical day at work would be to remove files on the computer and do experiments with dirt with the scientist. I've learned how to format papers on the computer and what type of dirt are good and bad for plants, My co-workers are nice, respectful, and will help you if you have a problem doing anything in the field. There arent really any difficult – more...  parts of the job. The most enjoyable part of the job is to be working next to a scientist and learning all that he knows about the enviroment. – less

Just a paycheck doing databse work. A typical day was doing little. I just had to update the main database of telelphone records once a month..Co workers were distant.

Manage registers, Processing of license applications; study EIA,documents and submit comments.Arrange site inpections and monitoring of issued licenses.
Meeting new applicants and developers.Currently supervising and working with an intern and is currently entertaining.
Dealing with transgressors or peolpe who clearfell open/trust woodlands and forests – more...  for sale of firewood.
I mostly enjoy spending my day in the field rather than being in the office.I am a handon person. – less

great place to work,outstanding management,OK employes, leaving,pay

Enjoyed most of my years working here. Began where I felt I was actually doing good things to assist small farmers. Now, not much in the farm bill to help those that really need the assistance. I have been here for 28 years and I'm beginning to get very burnt out!

Has great benefits.

Job requires standing for long periods.

Interesting place to work - bottom floor houses the USDA Forest Service HeadQuarters and personnel - many days filled with high level Agricultural Executives and visitors from the USArmy.

Worked with civil services,conduct pre slaughter inspections and post mortem inspection of animal carcasses if it passess the standard meat inspection set by the department in order to ensure a safe and clean meat for the the consumers.See to it that all abbatoirs and meat vendors and processors will follow the general rule of the National Government – more...  meat inspection act it protocols and procedures are being adhere. – less

I worked by myself most of the time, I had the necessary equipment provided by them, interacted with all levels of employees and the worked performed was well meant and significant. The coworkers were friendly and I traveled to many places that I was very delighted by the fact of knowing those places where I never planned to go and meet with interesting – more...  individuals that were in charge of important duties in the outside of the agency. – less

This is a non stop place to learn new things about Forestry and the growth of trees in the South.
The work hours were perfect and the work environment was a natural learning system.

There is a standard you are held to with this job, but it is a way of life and my manager was both a friend and understanding. Your success is based on your performance, and there are mony oppurtunities within the company. I loved my job there because of the responsibility and friends I aquired along the way. I learned a lot and the pay/benifits were – more...  outstanding. – less

A typical day was making and staining slides, filing papers, doing training, doing media set up for techs, cleaning lab, running the autoclave and helping out were people needed it

A typical day at work is passengers no informed of where to go after checked in for their flight. So passenger look to us for help in directing them to the right departure gate.
I look forward to coming to work every shift I'm scheduled. I get to see different crowd all the time and makes my job interesting.
I hardest part of my is job ----not showing – more...  up for work.
I would not want to miss work-- because I enjoy my work and also I like working with my co-workers. – less

Worked in FORTRAN and PL/I as weather data collector. Typical day involved loading remote sensing tapes to an HP workstation with its own tape, and then uploading the work station tape to the mainframe using Stanford University's WYLBUR alternative to TSO.

Learned about Cotton Insects pest control and the role of weather in using natural pest control – more...  methods.

The hardest part of the job was going to get the weather tapes off of the remote measuring equipment during bad weather.

The most enjoyable parts of the job was the uploading of the data and the conversion of special characters to numbers on some of the systems. – less

we receive import products from neighbouring countries into South Africa and check the compliance of the documents to the consignment and if it meet required standards.
i.ve learnt to deal with different type of personalities from differnt countries
the most challenging part is when there is really nothing on that particular day to deal with and you – more...  somehow feel you could have done something constructive with that time.
interacting with people should be the highlight of the day – less

When good supervisors were there, in my first 6 years, things were great. However when a Shady regime of supervisors with something to prove came through, we found ourselves wasting the taxpayers money instead of preventing fraud, waste and abuse!