Good company in decline - Protection Operations Specialist III Battelle Employee Review

3.0
5 Sept 2015
Recommend
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Pros

I received some great training and experience of my nearly 7 years at Battelle. There are a lot of experienced and professional individuals in the company and I was lucky to have management that cared.

Cons

They are struggling to win contracts and throwing blame in all the wrong places. Upper management is reducing benefits, including forcing everyone on to a sub-standard health care plan. In the past 5 years, the benefits package went from one of the best to below average. We were told almost annually that the company was restructuring its management to reduce overhead costs, but I never saw one bit of difference. The inability to be competitive eventually cost me and several co-workers our jobs when work dried up.

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

They pay my salary on time.

Cons

-They are run like grad school. They have you compete against your co-workers for funding, they consider rules and laws as simple impediments to be overcome by capricious edicts, they will treat you like a rented mule if you let them. I have come to the conclusion that senior management cares very little about work conditions or employees, only about the bottom line. This experience has significantly changed my opinion of not-for-profit companies. If you are a researcher looking for an open and collaborative environment with shared goals, I suggest you look elsewhere.

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