Pluspunten
If you can use a computer you can probably do the job. No interview. You can wear headphones while you work. Friendly visiting wasps. No air conditioning so you will stay nice and clammy in the summer. For some reason the company has ignored every request for this in my time working there.
Minpunten
Some of the people that work here are appalling. I had the pleasure of working with a couple of dull characters who took the meaning of the word uptight to a whole new level. Imagine spending your working life with someone who through a joyless manifestation of convergent evolution acquired Bill Lumbergh's personality, along with their trusty bootlicker. My two sad one-dimensional peers would best be described as aspiring hall monitors, they were a constant energy drain with their condescending attempts to micromanage us over the most arbitrary and inconsequential details imaginable. To illustrate a typical example: One time they got seriously upset at me over my "noncompliance" with their sudden silly demand that the sections of a return address must be separated with line breaks instead of commas, an unnecessary detail that no one else cared about, and continued to vent about this behind my back even after several months had passed. Why not just go along with it? Give these people an inch and they will take a mile. Bootlicker was too scared to make minor updates to master documents (word documents we copy and paste text from) and insisted that Lumbergh do it, even when all that needed adding was a single line of text. After all, in Lumbergh's control freak world where someone has to be named and blamed whenever something goes wrong, the last person to save a word document is apparently responsible for all of the errors it contains. I wonder if they figured out that since we couldn't see what changes were made, the last person to save may have only corrected a spelling error. I was even told by the self-appointed authority on everything to ask for permission if I want to move master documents from their precious archive folder (which no one needed, wanted or asked for) to the current folder (basically we get much quicker access to the current folder so any documents we currently use should not be in an archive in the first place) and received silence followed by passive aggression when I asked why; it's plain insulting. They were always looking for any tiny mistakes they could find with my work and didn't hesitate to needlessly report them to the seniors and anyone else who would listen, presumably to boost their petty sense of authority or satisfy some kind of obsessive compulsion, or maybe out of spite when I took no notice of their tedious orders which they had no right to give. Usually nothing resulted from it but it was exhausting having to constantly fight them off and knowing that they would betray me given any opportunity. For context, Lumbergh & Co. would on many occasions be unaware that they were sending off documents with incorrect information pertaining to people's money, you know, stuff that actually matters. Maybe you won't be surprised to hear that I had to walk on eggshells when informing them of this sort of thing, they often had a problem with taking any kind of criticism. I never voluntarily reported this sort of thing to the seniors and did what I could to cover their backs by keeping names out of it where possible; we are human and it's unavoidable every now and then; but they didn't show much reciprocity. It's amazing how narcissistic and unkind some people can be here. When I gave in my notice someone even had the nerve to request that the period should extend to account for bank holidays. Complaints have been made against certain individuals for years and little action has been taken in response. You will quickly find out who they are if you start working here. While there are plenty of nice people who work here there are also full-time gossips everywhere and it's hard to trust anyone. My team is not the only team in this place that has a parasitic psycho who will stop at nothing to make themselves appear professional, busy and important at other people's expense. Maybe it's no wonder since you need no skills to do this work and you gain no skills from doing this work; you stare at Microsoft Word documents for seven hours a day copy/pasting missing text and correcting spelling/formatting errors; it's incredibly boring and seems to make people turn on each other in the hope of getting promoted or just to create some drama. It only takes one person like this to make your work life a huge pain. The nature of the work itself involves prolonged repetitive movement of varying intensity. I have worked other jobs where I sit at a computer all day and none have hurt my upper body and strained my eyes this much. Ergonomic equipment and posture advice only goes so far, and careful if you plan on taking screen breaks as people will complain if you leave your desk too often. Never mind so much the actual quality of your work; it's more important here to make the correct friends, make yourself look like you are working hard (creative accounting helps), and make it seem that others aren't. Oh wow you didn't move from your desk for 5 hours, someone give this person a gold star immediately. If you enjoy playing those sorts of games you will love it here. And if you are related to the right people then happy days, you will get access to free tuition on how to screw with your team, and as a bonus you will be pretty much immune to criticism. People have advised me on multiple occasions not to challenge their behaviour as it will just make my life difficult. It's a complete joke and upper management should be ashamed. It's likely that Lumbergh is a senior now, if so then God help that poor team; I'm sure that the bureaucratic nonsense will have reached a whole new level. I wouldn't be surprised if they are making the team report their daily bog-roll usage on the timesheet and have devised weekly allowances that can only be extended at their discretion in a desperate attempt to impress their higher-ups.