Aqua Pro Tech Laboratories Reviews

The CEO pretended I was unqualified in order to justify a shockingly low initial pay of $15 per hour. I began working there in 2015, and I received a Bachelors Degree in Chemistry in 2014. I was more than qualified to write the comment "the matrix spike and matrix spike duplicate recoveries for hexachlorocyclopentadiene were outside of recovery limits" 25 times a day. In fact, I could explain how a cyclopentadiene could be used in a Diels Alder reaction to synthesize compounds. However, the boss played this game of pretending my resume was insufficient. The day I was employed, the boss told me he got the sense I was exaggerating my qualifications because I couldn't remember the specific Aroclor number that I helped detected as an undergraduate researcher in college. I checked my notes later that day and it turned out to be Aroclor 1260. The question about this specific piece of information was a way to trip me up and justify low pay. See, if the new hire is exaggerating his qualifications, it's okay to pay him $15 an hour. These lies about my qualifications continued throughout my employment. At a Christmas party in perhaps 2018, they were giving out awards and the boss said something about how I was someone they practically picked up off the street. I have a Chemistry Degree. I'm simply from a poor family. To be fair though, they eventually gave me a substantial raise, but this was their way of covering their own tracks for giving me an unjustifiably low pay rate in the first place. It took me a while to put the pieces together and understand the level of manipulation that really went on in Aqua Protech Labs. The boss maintained a friendly correspondence with me. He was always pleasant to be around, so I didn't really notice how manipulative he was. In fact, he might have truly convinced himself I was lying about having a Chemistry Degree or something. Otherwise it doesn't make sense. Most of the employees, aside from the analysists, did not appear to have degrees in a STEM field. I did. So why was I treated like some poor person they took in out of the kindness of their hearts? Sure, I didn't put in all the effort I could have. But when the work is that tedious and the boss is humiliating you openly to other employees, it's hard to be motivated. And here how I caught on to the fact it was all manipulation. I lost my job here due to Covid layoffs, so I figured this was a past employer I was on good terms with. So I figured I could pick up some of my belongings I left there, including a biography of Ulysses S Grant, Edward Gibbon's 1000 page book The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and a book on American history of a comparable size. I suspect these were simply thrown in the garbage upon my termination due to Covid. Also I'm only talking about Rob here, not speaking negatively about anyone else, including his brother.

Pay, constantly gaining responsibilities without compensation, toxic work culture