Pros
Meeting interesting colleagues where you can develop relationships outside of work.
Kontras
You can be the hardest worker, the best employee in terms of production, and have the most experience; but all that will not get you recognition. What will get you recognition with management, is sucking up to them as much as possible. If you are a friend of the manager, you will not have to do as much works as others, you will be put on "special projects", and you will rise up faster. You can pretty much see how this changes the foundation of a department. Its easy to see why the State has no money and the infrastructure is 40 years oudated! Deadlines are unrealistic at my specific bureau and the top staff could care less about about your well being. Office politics is so strong here that its hard to trust anyone. Don't ever try to speak up the managers either, you will just paint a target on your back and you won't be able to do anything about it.