Pros
Serving the community is a noble and rewarding profession.
Cons
Unfortunately the city is understaffed and their solution is to make it as hard for staff to request days off as possible. I was told by my manager to cancel my flight to a funeral upon my second month at HPL. This is the only job I've had where you're not allowed to request time off without pay. For example: if you need to see a doctor and don't have accrued leave they MIGHT allow it but it's marked as AWOL (abandoned work without leave) and there are multiple meetings and performance marks used against you in performance reviews. It's an incredibly high standard that no person can meet. Our manager called a meeting before I left to inform us that we're no longer allowed to request sick days without over 24 hours notice. We told our manager that's impossible and illegal and she just insisted policies must be followed. Two days later she apologized because she'd misread her email and there was no such policy. The blind unbending management style of the few people left at HPL make it very hard to not experience QUICK burnout.