Avantages
The pay is pretty good, and they raised the pay scale in January. One can get a lot of experience with excel and pulling huge datasets from a lot of various labor contracts. Manipulating the data and making it presentable for higher-level managers is key to the job, and the most exciting part of the job. I was very fond of the chair of my department as well.
Inconvénients
Working with GRID was very tedious, and a lot of my work was associated with just making the GRID sub work groups more organized, which is very manual work and ultimately doesn't seem to accomplish much at all, seeing that GRID may very well be removed in future years. The company is constantly reorganizing, and there seems to be a lot of miscommunication at the higher levels of management. Some of that can be from the shifts at the VP level, but you'd still expect things to look cleaner at least on the lower level.