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Role of a caregiver
Care Giver (Former Employee), Olympia, WA – April 24, 2013
Pros: customer relations excellant client
Cons: balancing studies for school
As a caregiver, I had to do all the cooking, cleaning, doctor appointments, laundry, etc.
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SOTP is not a healthy career move
Sex Offender Treatment Specialist (Current Employee), Washington – March 21, 2013
Pros: insurance, holidays and weekends
Cons: unqualified and inexperienced leadership
This program professes to be providing the best treatment in the northwest but the leadership continues to fall apart.
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Not a place to work if you have the drive to do more
Pharmacy Technician (Former Employee), Port Orchard, WA – February 21, 2013
Pros: serving veterans, decent pay, all major holidays and weekends off
Cons: manager didn't seem to care about issues, favoritism, no rotation, stuck doing one thing.
There is no rotation within the different workstations. I was always last to learn something, or didn't learn a specific task at all. When the manager is gone there is no clear person in charge. The two senior personnel seem to run everything, and show obvious favoritism; if you aren't liked for whatever reason, you were treated as an outcast. One person – more... in particular has been rude to others outside of her workstation, yet she is still there, even after numerous complaints.

I asked to learn more as far as the job, only to be shunned and kept at the lowest level possible. For the most part, I used this job as a stepping stone to gain experience. At the rate things were going, there wa no way for me to make this place a career.

The best part about working here was the residents. That's about it. – less
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Excellent work environment and great management
Claims Business Analyst - ProviderOne Project (Current Employee), Olympia, WA – February 18, 2013
Pros: learning is never ending
Cons: learning is never ending
Great work atmosphere! Coworkers are great!

Typical day at work is reviewing design documents and having meetings with stakeholders as well as our vendor to discuss new design of our second implementation phase of the ProviderOne Payment System project.
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Washington State Eployment Service Receptionist
Receptionist (Current Employee), Puyallup, WA – December 17, 2012
• Handle customer calls/complaints
• Client verification
• Client files
• Multi-Phone Lines
• Appointments
• Cleaning
• Customer Service
• Copy/Fax machines
• MS word 2010
• MS Word Excel
• MS Power Point
• Internet and E-mail
• Highly organized
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Ludie – April 21, 2013

Obviously the Employment Service Receptionist cannot follow directions! What kind of review is that?

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great place to work (then)
Office Assistant 3 (Former Employee), Chehalis, WA – December 5, 2012
Worked here for 18 years - at that time it was a fun place to work. Transferred to Maple Lane School.
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enjoyable
Caregiver (Former Employee), Everett, WA – November 13, 2012
Pros: lunch with reps and learn about new medication
Cons: people pass
Caregiver
enjoyable to be part of ones life at the end so much to learn from an elder.i was always buzy helping for what we take for granet in everyday living.

Working at Pac-Med and Hand Surgery
enjoyed helping others in time of need.
co-workers helpful
managment nice
learned new medical information all the time
my day was filling, buzy day helping – more... others with sickness, fixing casts and splints removing stitches guiding them through pre and post ops. – less
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Interpreted for all courts and at all levels; also for DSHS clients and offices
Independent Contractor (Former Employee), States of WA, OR, and BC, Canada – November 3, 2012
Pros: i enjoyed helping newly-arrived immigrants
Cons: not dependability of the amount of translation and interpreting assignments
- Assisted all patients in DSHS medical facilities and hospitals in Farsi and Dari interpreting

- Farsi and Dari court-interpreting at all of the courts in Seattle Metropolitan area and other selective cities in the rest of State of WA as well as OR and BC, Canada

- Very good experience in dealing with variety of different cultural topics, especially – more... for the newly-arrived immigrants. – less
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Employment Security is the worst agency in the State
Job Counselor (Former Employee), Lakewood, WA – October 13, 2012
I promoted from DSHS to ESD. It's a terrible agency. They promote staff to management who do not know their jobs. The bully their employees. Stay away from this agency. It is run by incompetent people.
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Finch – February 20, 2013

I have worked many security agency's in the state of Washington and SPSCC is by far the best I've worked. The pay and benefits are top notch. I worked for SPSCC as a part time security officer for 3 years and never missed a day of work, that shows the type of atmosphere that is there. The staff you work with are professional and fun to be around. You have an atmosphere were people are there to better them self's. The students, staff, and faculty are the best I've worked with. Loyalty has always been on the top of my list when working at SPSCC.

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Excellent culture
Adjudicator (Former Employee), Seattle, WA – September 2, 2012
Great experience, working with the State. Benefits are the best and job security as 100%
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I'm looking for a job so I can grow with the company.
Personal Care Aide (Former Employee), Seattle, WA – August 13, 2012
Going to work everyday follow directions. I learned my routine what I supposed to da daily.I get along with co-workers and people real good. The hardest part is learning a job and must enjoyable part is getting my work done on time.
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Fiscal Analyst (Current Employee), Shoreline, WA – August 5, 2012
Pros: stable, security, benefits
Cons: low morale, low pay, unaccountable management
The hardest part of my job is putting up with the management. Case in point, the executive manager of one agency would call the office manager every morning to set the schedule for the office staff. There are other incidences but it makes for a poor culture when the management is continually looking over your shoulder and second guessing you. The most – more... enjoyable part of my job is working with my supervisor and co-workers and the challenges of the job. I have discovered that I enjoy working with people, I enjoy working with the public, I like a close relationship with my supervisor and I just have issues with critics looking over my shoulder. – less
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Great place to work
Office Assistant (Former Employee), Seattle, WA – June 16, 2012
This office for me was a fill-in and it felt like a family. The Job security and work was very comfortable.
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Learned Server Administration and Telecommunications practices.
Intern/Work Study (Former Employee), Des Moines, WA – June 12, 2012
Pros: great group of people experienced in network administration to learn from.
Eight months part time work experience in Administrative Technology at Highline Community College which included two internships. The first involved planning, designing, building, testing, and troubleshooting a telecommunications closet which included a PBX Phone System. The second involved research, testing, and configurations used to deploy agents – more... for service monitoring, single point patching, and reporting of a Microsoft Windows Server Infrastructure utilizing the Dell KACE K1000 Management Center.
• Corrected errors in the patch download process that prevented the Dell KACE K1000 Appliance from updating patch signatures for various operating systems which completely disabled the appliances ability to deploy patch updates to 114 critical network servers which support 16,000 students, 1,200 faculty and staff, and 2,800 workstations.
• Guided two Interns in learning basic industry telecommunications troubleshooting practices using knowledge gained through telecom internship project as well as previous work experience. – less
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Worthless Director of Internal Audit
Internal Auditor (Current Employee), Tumwater, WA – June 9, 2012
Pros: two hour lunches, leave early most days, not work, a paycheck
Cons: working under the 2012 director of internal audit
The current director (as of January 2012) has spent well over $250,000 on software that has not utilized for the previous 4 years. Additionally, he's hired 4 of his close friends from other agencies. One particular person was an Administrative Assistant! That's right! No accounting background. No knowledge of a debit or credit. This guy literally walks – more... all day and does zero work. If you want to be lazy and take government money, this is the job for you. – less
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Former Juvenile Security Officer
JRSO1/Correctional Mental Health Counselor (Former Employee), Indian Ridge Youth Camp/Monroe Prison – June 6, 2012
Pros: beneifts, egcc is in a nice part of east snohomish county, doesn't house the worst juvenile offenders
Cons: terrible management, inconsistent rules, rehabillitation of the offenders is questionable
It's been years since I worked for the Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration, which is under the umbrella of WA State Deprartment of Social and Health Services. First and foremost, there are too many supervisors-you have a floor supervisor, the JRS, a Program Manager, Administrator and then all the DSHS brass, so rules change minute by minute. Secondly, – more... Department of Social and Health Services should not have it's hands in corrections-period! You always have to prove yourself innocent whenever there is a use of force incident on one of the offenders and we're not talking about shoplifters here-many of these kids are assaultive, have attempted to murder, have murdered, or are registered offenders-and they do become assaultive in custody. WA State should either put JRA under the umbrella of the state department of Corrections or JRA should be it's own entity, not under the umbrella of DSHS. – less
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Do not work for Security
Security Officer (Former Employee), Western State Hospital – June 1, 2012
Pros: its a paycheck
Cons: everything
Its hard to work in a security department that has a big management problems. Officers are always sleeping and fighting with each other and management dosen't do anything about it and they don't care about you.
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Fast paced daily operations. Expect change. No 2 day are alike
Adminstrative Assistant III (Former Employee), Gig Harbor, WA – May 31, 2012
Fast paced daily operations. Expect change. No 2 day are alike
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IT Security Administrator Specialist
IT Security Administrator Specialist (Current Employee), Olympia, WA – May 14, 2012
Pros: i am blessed to have a job.
Cons: long commute
A typical day at work includes provisioning user account access. Often times, I complete change request that requires system configuration and create roles and profiles. I am also responsible for auditing application access to insure separation of duties are not being violated and remove user accounts that have not logged into the systems in less than – more... 180 days. My manager is new and is only involved in making management decisions not process decisions. I have one co-worker whom I trained and continue to train, she has been with the State of WA for about 5 months. The hardest part of the job is coordinating with others to get a goal accomplished.The most enjoyable part of the job is helping our customers (state staff, providers, provider staff). – less
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Well functioning work team
Truck Driver II/Customer Service Representative (Former Employee), Olympia, Washington – May 3, 2012
Pros: great work setting, lots of communication.
Cons: some extremely heavy lifting, working outside in adverse weather.
I enjoyed this job. Everyone worked well together, management had a good rapport with the employees, there was room for advancement and everyone pitched in when we were short handed.
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