There is no room for growth within the lab. Unless you're a certain someone's favorite, or one of the manager's favorites. Management is barely there in the lab. I have heard QA department ask us so many times, where's our management? To the point where if I had a penny for every time I been asked, I wouldn't be working here, and invest those millions into something else. Work most of the time can get done rather quickly, but it's due to management not being there that stalls the progress, 80% of the time. Process within the lab is sloppy, and the higher up in QC is aware of this, and says it should be fixed. Every time the FDA, or Novartis does an audit, the management is quick to hide the glaring major issues, and pretend there's nothing wrong, and the lab is back to square 1. Management likes to do this thing where they'll just pick on an employee, and make their week miserable. They'll task them impossible tasks, and they're aware they can't complete it, and warn them it'll affect their performance. Sometimes, the tasks will cause overtime and will punish employees for staying in late, or hint for them not to take in overtime. There’s a perception that if you’re outside of the lab, may it be for food, or your required 15 minute break. Unless you’re the favorite, you will be called down to the office and get yelled at. The lab is known to have a toxic community, which is promoted. There’s plenty of times when management will join in on hazing as well. The main consensus in the lab is the majority feel they’re overworked, they’re depressed, they’re ignored. Many of these issues are well known and have been brought up to HR, but nothing apparent has been done. We have been told to bring it up to BPO as well, but nothing apparent has been done, just an automated message. It just seems like the goal is to work the employees the bone, keep the ones they favor, and have the rest burn out to save money.
