Most units are totally dysfunctional due to bad management, high-school politics, and poorly-functioning bureaucratic methodology. Catty coworkers, extreme workloads, and mismanagement everywhere. Do NOT try to be a forward-thinking, intelligent employee, because middle-management will feel threatened by it. You'll be promised promotions in order to keep you working hard, but these magical promotions will never occur due to supposed "Backlogs in paperwork in HR." Non-stop drama and frustrations, and employees are not given the tools and power to get their jobs done well and efficiently. Management then tries to keep moral up by having constant potlucks, which only helps improve morale for a few hours.
I watched MANY people quit out of frustration, workplace harassment issues, and general unhappiness. Many left for other state departments, and told me that things ran much better at the new department. Some of us were so burnt out on this department that we left the state system completely.
Oh, and the head of the department doesn't believe in using the Oxford comma.
