Pros
The company is a great way to gain experience in the laboratory field. It has a lot of quality staff. The PTO is good and it doesn’t go away. Laboratory management genuinely cares about and sticks up for employees.
Cons
The pay is not good. They do not give raises as far as I’ve heard. Upper management doesn’t understand the laboratory. It refuses to acknowledge the obvious problem: the lab is highly understaffed. This has recently become a vicious cycle of people leaving the company, causing others to gain work load, causing more people to leave, etc. In addition, this has occurred alongside an increase in the number of clients, and, therefore, samples. The lab is being set up for failure. Employees are expected to meet a two week turnaround time, but get berated for accruing overtime (as if they WANT to spend any more than 8 hours a day in that hole with no windows). In fact, the employees were told that any unapproved overtime would not be paid. The lab brings in the most money; however, they are the ones who suffer the most from upper management’s tight pockets. I was told that the ridiculous overtime forms even have a section that asks what “project or budget is to be charged” in order to pay an employee what they’ve earned.