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3.3

44% would recommend to a friend

(14 total reviews)

George Hempe

49% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

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14 reviews
2.0
18 Jan 2018

Play the game and you’ll win

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting; workforce development can be difficult to understand unless you come from a social services or federally funded nonprofit background. You are constantly learning about programs and services offered to the public at no cost. Benefits are pretty awesome.

Cons

Office politics and way too much drama. Favoritism and back stabbing will pretty much determine the course of your career with WSA. There is no real career advancement unless you choose to take on a completely different role. Stay away if you can’t play the game or refuse to do so. Depending on your role, you might also involved with local politics, which can be good or bad, depending on whether or not you enjoy that sort of thing. Layoffs happen a lot, which is weird because these are the folks who are supposed to get people back to work while promoting long term employment and financial self sufficiency. Word on the street is that you will receive little to no notice of your pending layoff and don’t expect any severance pay on the way out either. Benefits are not so awesome if you have a family to feed :( There is a huge lack of trust between the contractors and WSA, which also makes things interesting. Huge lack of communication and miscommunication issues with the contractors causes a lot of unnecessary problems and hostility. CEO is sketchy and plays favorites, so stay on his good side or else you’re screwed. Leadership changes constantly, so it feels like you’re constantly on a roller coaster ride. The board of directors isn’t very involved with the mission of WSA. Lastly, change is very slow to be implemented because it’s a bureaucratic agency. Just expect everything to be slow, whether it involves internal processes or simply trying to get reimbursed for mileage.

3.0
23 Aug 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Co-workers are like family. Gossip/cattiness etc. is non-existent. -Potential for long term employment- just don’t expect advancement or a raise. -Learn a tremendous amount about the workforce field, child care services, other non-profits. -WSA partners with so many commendable organizations. -Ability to work without being micromanaged. Treated as an adult. -Stellar benefits. I did have to take medical leave twice and staff were very supportive and I’ll always be sincerely grateful for that.

Cons

Money is always their bottom line. I had to take a medical leave, and the fiscal/accounting dept. gave me an amount to pay out of pocket for benefits for the time I was out. I wrote a money order for that amount and provided it. I did my due diligence- I had to take a borrow from my 401k which I didn’t want to do, take a loan and work a second job to come up with this amount. Later, I am told the number was miscalculated. They then proceeded to give me three other amounts and I could never be sure they knew they had the right amount or would have charged me more later. Additionally, due to an HR mistake, I had to pay back wages from a previously medical leave. They were deducting a few hundred from every pay check to make up for their mistake. I ultimately compromised because I loved my job and wanted to figure it out and put it behind us. But after my second medical leave, they told me I still owed a few hundred and had to pay it out of pocket within 30 days and no compromises would be made. They also failed to alert me there was a two week elimination period before receiving disability benefits. I didn’t have that happen the first leave because of whatever the HR mistake was, and I didn’t have paperwork about the disability because they filed everything on my behalf. Due to this, I had no idea or I would have prepared for that fiscally ahead of time. I wasn’t advised til later from others this is a standard thing for disability. So ultimately, I lost an entire paycheck, still had wages overdue I was paying off, then they wanted a few hundred more out of pocket within 30 days. It was an absolute nightmare and caused me personal financial ruin. Additionally, they ignored my requests for a position review. I was hired as a general administrative assistant, but within 3 months, the CEO sent out an email updating my job duties to those of an Executive Assistant type role. Now I don’t have a degree, so I wasn’t even expecting the minimum of what an Exec Assistant’s salary is, but I knew I still deserved a good amount more for my duties. I worked on an array of very difficult projects over the year I was there and only wanted to be properly compensated in alignment with my duties. I was told several times that I was “invaluable” and “irreplaceable.” I know I was a rockstar at my job. But at the end of the day, rather than compromise on these issues and work things out with me, or hear my requests for the position review, they said goodbye and deleted all my credentials within 24 hours. I always told people who say, “You will always be replaceable at a job,” that it isn’t true and the right job WILL value you because I thought I had found that. Come to find out, that is sadly untrue. I very much loved my job and adored my co-workers. Highly disappointed and sad at the outcome of this job separation.

4.0
15 Aug 2025

Good company.

Recommend
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Pros

Great mission Great ability to make a difference Benefits are great

Cons

Coworkers are ehh Culture is ehh Not too bad

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