Keep looking - Anonymous employee Denver Human Services Employee Review

Advancement is based solely on political maneuvering. Experience, seniority and even the basic abilities to do the job are not factored into promotional opportunities. HR and management are so concerned with turnover that they will try to keep EVERYONE. Except for attendance issues, nobody is terminated. The worst thing they'll do is move the problem employee around to fail somewhere else. More likely, management will just tolerate them and let them motor along for the next few decades. Workers are required to bend over backwards to help clients who refuse to help themselves (on any level), but if that worker wants a temporary schedule change or would like to move cubicles, forget it! Security is a joke. Cars have been broken into while parked in the mandatory employee parking garage (of course there's a fee)/. The quiet understanding is the agency will do something as soon as there's a tragedy, not a minute before. Management knows the answers it has to give to higher-up (the mayor, the state etc). They also fail to act on those answers so there's culture of hypocrisy that is exhausting. They are constantly soliciting opinions and advice from the front line staff. That's a good thing until you realize they ignore the data given and do whatever they want anyway. The surveys are just a task for them to say they did, not tools for gathering information. There is no accountability. If someone does poor work on something, you're expected to clean it up. With very few exceptions, the person who did the poor work will never be told it happened, let alone coached on any level. This is government bureaucracy at its worst. Higher-ups who do nothing add levels of management underneath them to do nothing, who hire support staff to help them do nothing. Fear of responsibility, added to mandatory federal guidelines and local, arbitrary rules mean getting anything done is almost impossible. Longevity means those employees are too incompetent to get a job somewhere else. Almost anyone worth a damn realizes they want to be somewhere where their accomplishments and abilities are recognized and rewarded. 20 year veteran staff are easily the worst performers.