Pros
Benefits were excellent, 8 - 9% company match for 401k TON of paid time off, however there is no distinction between sick time and vacation time, 18 days during year 1, 23 days year 2, 28 days year 5, 33 days year 10, and 38 days year 20. There is room for growth if you stay long enough. Corporate jobs are rarely vacated, leading me to believe that they are pretty good jobs They hold some fun functions throughout the year, summer party, Thanksgiving lunch The business is closed for a week during Christmas and a week during Summer, although you have to use vacation time for this.
Cons
The work was very menial, physical. A lot of scrubbing walls, ceilings, floors, then going back and sanitizing walls, ceilings, floors. Dealing with high temps, high humidity environment at times Changing clothes several times per day, working in bunnysuits (coveralls with hood and boots, face mask, two pair of gloves, safety glasses, basically no part of body uncovered) Not a lot of use of my BS in biology, mostly physical labor. High turnover rate in production area (where I worked) After rumors about the Intervet being bought out, the company insisted that they were not for sale, then were bought several months later. Minimum of 3-5 years before potential for promotion or major pay increase Pay was slightly lower than other similar jobs in the area