United States Army Employee Reviews for Operator

What do you like about working at United States Army?

"The job security, the benefits, and the pay. Working in the technical field and keeping communications."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"As long as you don't mind being told how or where to live your life, by all means sign up at a recruiter near you. However, I do not recommend this job to people with families as you do travel a lot (and can't currently take your wife and kids to Iraq or Afghanistan). Your hours will be anywhere from 12 hr shifts every day at times, with 24 hr duties about once a month. When you get home back to your main duty station you could actually have a job that allows a 9 am-5 pm schedule. But that will also be when these extra duties and training will take over your time. With deployments I was deployed a year, home a year, etc. Though at times even when I was home it felt as though with training and duties I was only actual with my family 4 months out of the year."

What don't you like about working at United States Army?

"I could not stand how any person that outranked or got paid more than any other person was allowed to make someone's day a nightmare. A scenario I often use is: It would be like the manager at Taco Bell coming over to McDonald's and insulting and screaming at employees that do not belong to him because they looked fat. When a soldier of mine complained to me I pointed him in the right direction to get help and he was told that the Sergeant Major (or CEO equivalent) could not get in trouble or be reprimanded for doing this. Outrageous..."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Give those that worked under me the respect they deserve as people and not simply shunning their ideas or opinions based on their rank or pay grade."

What do you like about working at United States Army?

"I loved the people, the bonds you had with fellow soldiers, and pretty much just the people."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"When interviewing for this company make sure you are in decent shape, and can handle the physical aspects of the military."

What don't you like about working at United States Army?

"Worked long hours, and never really had a life, had to have room checks, and such, but all in all it really wasn't that bad."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"There really isn't anything to really say. a lot of it is just having more meetings with everyone and not just the upper chain of command."