Pros
There is a cafeteria that normally has food that won't give you industrial bowel movements BPA is located on the light rail and two bus stops 10% of the air intake to the ventilation systems is fresh The colors of the walls are Government Beige and Brown Items on your desk are hardly ever stolen
Cons
BPA is ``modernizing`` it's office furniture, going from 5'8'' fabric cubicles to desk height partitions Contractors are treated very poorly and are frequently released for trivial and arbitrary reasons Contractors are given smaller cubicles then federal employees BPA's hiring practices are rife with cronyism, nepotism and favoritism (If you take a moment to search on DOE's web site, you will see the hot water BPA is currently in) BPA's hiring practices and procedures are un-equal across the agency Effort required to process work through change or task management is utterly useless and frivolous. Often this process is nothing but rubber stamped parroting of boiler plate documents No clear direction in management style or leadership Bad managers and federal employees are shuffled around and promoted vs being dealt with. Their incompetence is frequently rewarded Projects never really get finished, they are just re-named and re-budgeted Along with these projects, BPA is fond of re-organizing the pieces on the board.