Deputy Sheriff - Anonymous employee Spokane County Sheriff Employee Review

There are a number of challenges presented that keep employees on top of their game. The benefits at the county are great.

Shift work can have its drawbacks for families, but you learn to adjust your time with family and events.

The line staff are good people who try their best and want to do a good job for the community and their partners.

Everything else. For the most part, supervision & management is terribly incompetent and the organization truly does not care about its employees. Nepotism is big here within management and making difficult, but correct decisions, is elusive for most supervisors and managers. The supervision mantra is typically, “Do as I say - not as I do.” Also, there is a refusal within the organization to let efficiency interfere with the bureaucracy of running a dysfunctional organization. This organization embodies the stereotype of inefficiency due to their insistence of mandating multi-layers of bureaucracy to ensure job security; thereby mandating inefficiency and incompetence. The most dysfunctional organization I’ve ever been associated with due to poor supervision and management.