Q&A With US Department of Veterans Affairs Employees

Hire people that really care, fire those that slack on the job

Get ride of the good old boy management!! That is what is wrong way to many unqualified people in leadership/management!!

Once a year in January

As with any other federal agency they follow the good ole boy system.

Honestly. it varies by department. Since we are talking healthcare, work from home jobs are strictly administrative. So you could be a nurse in an administrative only job and work from home but the vast majority of jobs are on site.

Easier and more friendly and knowing what to expect for questions

Nurse manager two days

Experience based and scenario based

all work/no life

never allowed unless you were somebody's buddy

very rarely, unless you are a buddy or relative of someone in admin

Great if you like to do two or three people's jobs simultaneously

Absolutely impossible. No flexibility, shamelessly applying guilt trips when you ask for earned pto

non existant

How truly horrible that they treat employees. My experience was unbelievable from the first day as the nurse who was assigned to "orient" me believed that I was hired to replace her. She was rude and uninformative throughout my training, that with the bad things she said to other co-workers about me snowballed into a terrible work environment. Even after she admitted that she was wrong to do that to the supervisor, the time I spent there was the worst job experience I have had.

Lazy and confrontational

The most junior guy on my team is me and I've been working here 5 years. The next guy has been here 10 years and it just goes up from there.

leadership and management that has taken the time to understand what we are supposed to be offering to our customers and partners.