A few leaders with overactive egos cause a lot of damage
Pros
There are good people who work at that organization and add genuine social product; helping people grow while servicing the sick in our communities. Simply by being in their proximity of their sheer goodness, you find yourself bettered and inspired to better others. The best of them elevate you, show you a path of growth, and walk down that path with you for a little while, ensuring that you've found your footing.
Cons
There are select individuals in integral roles. These people adhere -- to almost no degree -- to the HSHS core values of Respect, Care, Competence, and Joy. They would be shamefully defenceless against the claim that they do not treat people with an inherent dignity, much less respect. They hear non-existent malice in benign criticism. Criticism so whimsical that surely you'd think that I'm being hyperbolic if you heard it in its entirety. They lash out defensively, inappropriately, with impunity like a school yard bully; delusional yet confident in their criticisms, making accusations of unprofessionalism while name-calling in the same sentence.* I often found myself affording them conversational honesty on simple decency, empty handed as the recipient of such, and all the more disadvantaged for it as they attack the semantics of any misstep. Their thought framework allows them to speak with blatant condescension while simultaneously claiming a bizarre kind of moral high ground. They are highly skilled, very intelligent assets, but I have accumulated alarmingly little reason to believe that they are *good* people. There are exceedingly few individuals such as this, but they function as a bottleneck within the organization; sludge in the headwaters. Additionally, pay is not competitive at all. They get away with this by calling ALL I.T. positions "analysts" although they have much more appropriate role names (eg, Server Administrator, Application Developer...) * Thankfully I preemptively recorded all private conversations knowing full well that I may need to validate any accusations of harassment, or defend myself against fabrications.
