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No Room for Growth

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The employees are great and the work/life balance is amazing. There is no room for progression within the company for women. Nepotism will get people far in the company. If you are not friend or a family member you will not succeed here.

Pros

Excellent work/life balance, great schedule, flexible time

Cons

No room for growth, no promotions, no bonuses, no recognition, lack of communication
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Matrix'ed to customer's location

ISPA is sub to a prime contractor. The most enjoyable part is the opportunity to work with customers and solving problems when supporting their customers globally.

Pros

Hands off Professionals

Cons

Pay and benefits no upward mobility
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Fun and relaxed

flex time is great! Many veterans like myself work there. Work directly with Lockheed martin. Management is great. Environment is well relaxed and nobody is always watching you over your shoulder.

Pros

Plenty of time off and good salary

Cons

benefits are not the greatest
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Convenience, responsibility , loyalty, and friendly

I love work there, but they closed. I have to leave no choice. I had been working at Ispa for 7 years. The first 2 years I worked at nail station. Then I went to school of esthetician. It takes a year to get esthetician license. I got train esthetician position about 3 months and I got full time esthetician job there.

Pros

Free lunch

Cons

Short hours 5 hours shift
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Poor Culture, Poor Treatment

Undercompensated; Micro-managed; Government Contractors with all the pitfalls; Feeder company to Lockheed-Martin, but LMG looks down on ISPA employees on site. Environment is confusing with managers assuming everyone understands how government contractors work. No scale for performance. Goals are very ambiguous. Great deal of "don't get caught and it's ok" behavior. Very poor work life balance.
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I did a lot of military sensitive work for them

Look at the work sheet and see what naval ordinance needed. How to work with the military and read military blue prints. I did not officially manage any departments at this time unless someone was on vacation. Unfortunately to the workplace you were just a number. The hardest part of the job was being unappreciated. The best part was working on a lot of military jobs that directly benefited our service men and women.

Pros

I enjoyed doing a lot of military work

Cons

Very low pay and no employee appreciation
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tech support

Tech Support /web developer: My job was customer support. I handle the phone calls of people that needed help with their internet connection and email problems. We offered internet service for over 75 companies in the United States. We had to answer and complete the call in a timely manner.

Pros

free internet

Cons

pay was cheap
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Good starter job

The division of ISPA, Inc. for which I work is essentially the Technical Publications department for Lockheed Martin's C130J aircraft. The work day and schedule echoes that of the Marietta Lockheed QMT (Quality Management Team), working essentially 9 hours a day plus a 45 minute mandatory unpaid lunch break four days a week, and 8 hours plus the same lunch break on Fridays. The following week, the Friday is off, but overtime is expected on weekdays, days off and weekends. Overtime is paid the same as regular hourly salary. Workers are grouped in loose teams and the atmosphere is very quiet and peaceful. Work is conducted independently in cubicles, and communication is mostly via inter-office e-mail and instant messages. It is expected that employees report to Lockheed headquarters when assigned on a regular or irregular basis, depending on which team you work. There are occasional meetings and few training sessions. There are a wide variety of people working at ISPA, diverse in age, origin, background. The work requires learning a good deal of information quickly and attention to detail, as well as handling deadlines. There is a lot of repetition in the work itself. People are for the most part quite friendly. Management is mostly hands-off, but occasionally random changes occur. HR is very friendly; a really good group of people. I would say that ISPA is a good, small corporation. Because of the small size of the company, benefits are a bit limited (such as health insurance plan), but they try their best. There is a fairly high turnover rate compared to other workplaces in - 

Pros

Good people, opportunities to work independently, to learn new skills

Cons

short breaks, long hours, long commute, no bonuses, insufficient communication with managers / teams
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Great employer

ISPA has been a great company to work for. As a contractor, I appreciate the way ISPA respects me as a professional, communicates with me and provides ample opportunities to work.

Pros

flexible schedule

Cons

no health benefits
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A job

ISPA provides a steady job but opportunities for advancement are not there. Little interaction with management or feedback on performance.

Pros

Controlled work environment.

Cons

Stressful.
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Productive and experiencing the financial side of production

A typical day at work consists of reviewing contract info , total number of buys/repairs. I communicate with other branches of service when buys and repairs are upcoming to let them know the cost and if the cost has changed due to increase or decrease in exchange rates. I work alongside the Program manager and attend meetings with him/her. I create spreadsheets on IPT meetings that are standing meetings each month. I create temporary work orders for Depot on upcoming activation of GPS Antenna production. Co-workers are enjoyable and very helpful. Management is in order in this environment. My job is a busy job and requires skill in which I developed back in my 40 plus years at Depot in production and learning this side of production is a very rewarding experience. Back in production the money had already been allocated and the production assets flowed in and out of the shop. This job requires me to see the money being spent for this to happen at Depot.

Pros

Experience in contracting.

Cons

Not knowing if the job contract will be funded
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A good company to work for

Performed drafting services for Lockheed Martin via computer utilizing Micro Station for various engineering projects including sketch plans, for I-130J.

Pros

off every other Friday

Cons

writers
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Not a bad job, not enough pay.

This job was not bad, but management was sub par and the company went out of business.

Pros

work environment

Cons

Managememt was poor
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Too much work for not enough pay

The culture of this business is lovely, but the hours are grueling and the pay is substandard. Benefits are great for a single person with no family or obligations.
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Good place to work

Well run company. Great management with multiple areas of employment.
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3.0 out of 5 stars for Job Security/Advancement
3.5 out of 5 stars for Management
3.8 out of 5 stars for Culture

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