Pros
If you didn't want to do any work, you could just turn up and not do anything. It was paid employment
Kontras
Unbelievably toxic culture, team leaders/supers/mgmt hired on who they're friends with in management, instead of competence. This leaves competent people who want to do a good job stuck doing the job, unable to change anything while incompetent people run the place. More and more and more work was offshored to India, but we were told we were still responsible for keeping things operational. We couldn't even build servers or purchase licenses, everything had to be a ticket or required change management. Ultimately, we were 100% responsible for network/compute operations but couldn't get the permissions or ability to even do the work required to run the place. Biggest disappointment was discovering at the last minute that some full time employees were all going to be replaced with contractors. Except, they didn't tell us that, they just went and did it. Only a matter of time until they outsourced our positions to India and replaced us. If only they had the decency to tell us. Also, no training or career progression of any kind. I was investigated by Ethics and Integrity for trying to book tickets to Cisco Live. Insane. Pay was poor considering you were on an industrial site doing a job they couldn't get people to do.