Pros
- Plenty of opportunities to learn new techniques/assays - Teammates (not managers) were all committed to helping each other and keeping each other afloat - Company contributes towards HSA
Cons
- Wages are considerably lower than competitors’. - Vacation and sick time are combined, and very little is offered. - Racial microaggressions were common. - Extremely overworked and understaffed. Entire lab team is used to spending countless hours in BSL2 and BSL3 without breaks or lunches. - Only a couple of on-site managers that are never available, and who are so willfully oblivious that they can’t see the problems and unhappiness in their own teams. - Too many projects and orders are approved by Business & Development/management without consideration for the site’s bandwidth, perpetuating the cycle of overworked and undervalued employees. - Projects are often not fully planned for, causing breakdowns in the system and technicians to work overtime frequently. - Emotional manipulation and mind games by management towards their employees, and there are clearly those that are *favorited* and those that are not. - Employees are forced (and sometimes urged) to participate in unsafe lab practices and breaches in GLP practices. - As a result of the above, there is a high turnover rate for such a small site.