Pros
LSC can be an exciting place where you get to work with many people in helping visitors understand science concepts. It is a large facility where you can sometimes feel like you're part of something big. The staff you primarily work with are great people who care about what they do and are willing to help other coworkers create some great programs and demonstrations.
Cons
Where to start? Firstly, there is a lot of petty and unprofessional behavior that goes on regularly. There are managers who freely speak to anyone below their position as if they are stupid children who don't know anything. More often than not, the reasons are simply because of rank and position and nothing else. If you complain to HR, they always side with management and who they are friends with. The entire talent and development/HR dept. needs to be overhauled and staffed with true HR professionals. It's currently a biased mess, with a director who gets rewarded with promotions for being the heart and soul of many staff problems. She fires or makes people want to quit because of her own biases and overlooking of the truth. LSC has lost over 15 dedicated and professional staff over the past year because of her and her antics. Currently, upper management is playing musical positions and switching people into new titles because they are clueless to the real issues at LSC. The talent and development dept. is obviously the ring leaders of this staffing circus they created. Meanwhile, staff continue to quit on a regular basis. Word gets around fast that they are concerned with office gossip, not realizing they are the reasons for the gossip. No one feels secure in their job or in being able to report actual harassment and problems to HR. Everyone knows it's a kangaroo court in that office. Lies are made up about people / incidents by the director of HR to fit whatever agenda and narrative she feels (without facts) benefits her friends and management. Then there is the Marketing department that are bullies to pretty much everyone in other departments. They don't just control the message, they want to control the staff and everything they do. They are unfriendly, unprofessional and if staff don't do things their way, they make sure it doesn't get advertised and therefore fails. They always blame any issues or complaints on everyone else, but themselves. They operate on the idea that marketing should dictate what everyone does, rather than doing their job and finding ways to properly market actual science and programs the staff create. The result is a staff that doesn't care about what they're doing and they just wait to be told what to do. Great ideas and innovations are thrown out the window and idiotic watered down ideas replace them, because that's what marketing feels is easier to deal with. If marketing/media is questioned by ANYONE, that person is quickly targeted as being uncooperative and suddenly is called into HR for it. It's NEVER an issue when the marketing team is completely rude or ruins programs and events with their unprofessional antics, it's always the fault of anyone who complains about it. So, no one complains or even attempts to try to change anything, because they already know that will lead to being fired or forced into quitting by HR. As it stands right now, it is HR (Talent and Development) and Marketing that actually call all the shots on who stays and who gets shown the door at LSC. If you're not friends with those teams, you're already on the list to be booted out. The CEO seems to be OK about that.