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“Long-lasting slow-paced environment leading to your retirement”

Verified User Current Employee · 1********* · IT Administrator - Jun 16, 2021

ProsLots of open leadership positions at the moment if you want career progression or to make an impact. Good contracting rates: many employees choose to stay as contractors for 20-some years and then retire. A good place to join if you want a long-lasting slow-paced job, e.g. having one 30-minute meeting a day to get paid for the whole day of doing pretty much nothing else. Even though JEA is a non-profit, they do have roughly $1B to play with every year: $2B collected for water, sewer, and electric, minus $700M for energy generation, minus $250M as a 'kick back' to the City.

ConsJEA scandal of 2020. Florida's "Sunshine Law": everything you write is a Public Record. Technical debt is 8-10 years. FTE's (e.g. HelpDesk and non-contractor technical staff) technical knowledge level is very low: you can do a Google search to prove some people wrong. Resistant to change (since most of employees have been there for 20-some years). When folks retire, positions are not getting relisted. IT is slow, so there are talks of IT (ops) outsourcing. Organizational structure is illogical at times which makes it hard to get much done across domains. Domains are very siloed and disconnected. Everyone knows what and where the problems are, yet everyone wants YOU to fix their world, processes, and ultimately do their job for them. It takes two years to get any project funding (which increases technology lag by 2+ years with every project). Florida has lower than national average compensation rate, so taking an FTE role almost doesn't make sense if contracting arrangement is available for the same position. Contractors are not treated same as employees: even training, meeting invitations or event notifications available to FTEs are not available to contractors.