Cody Laboratories Reviews

Too many to list, but here's a few. Politics, power plays, unwarranted promotions for unqualified staff, hire over your head unqualified staff because they don't like you, passed over for promotions because they don't like you even when you are the most qualified, well performing candidate, incompetent HR department that you'll get absolutely no help from but they will plan your demise as an employee. You will get round table, multiple "cry baby" management meetings multiple times per week that cut into actual work time demanded by an egotistic president, Bernhardt, where everyone is so soft (and literally crying) they can't take professional criticism. Not only that, but the president has everyone so afraid, no one will stand up to him and if you do, you better start looking for a new job because he can't handle anything that is even the slightest professional disagreement (massive ego) and doesn't put him on a pedestal, even when he's dead wrong. He's wrong a lot. He thinks he knows how to run a business, but he doesn't (aka not even close to profitable under his tenure, ever). As a result, management is extremely soft because they are constantly shut down, belittled, and micromanaged. It is truly a dog eat dog environment because everyone is just trying to keep their job and they will do or say whatever it is to keep it that way, often throwing other colleagues under the bus. An example of this is the president changing the name of a project, which the name change was irrelevant and unneeded, but the actual project had taken hours and hours of management time to produce. There was no feedback given for the project, but an argument about the irrelevant naming. These are the types of things you will deal with if you are in management here on a daily basis. No one wants to do their job if it means actually working and being responsible for their department. They would all rather be out hunting. Even though they have a great vacation plan on paper, if you're in management, don't expect to be able to take any of it, hardly ever. When you do go out of town, make sure you know you'll be on call 24/7 to put out any fires that they can't deal with without you. You'll get blamed for everything that goes wrong in your absence as well. Management is so untrustworthy that they often tell people one thing, and then do something that totally contradicts it. They have what they want to be a real "together" leadership team (and do several trainings for this) but there is no truth said here and absolutely no unity. Everyone looks out for themselves and throws others under the bus both while they are working there and after they leave. Untruthfulness and unwilling to work with team members is the norm here. You shouldn't be able to tell people there is tuition reimbursement and then only after the fact tell them each class has to be approved by management (in a management meeting by vote, of course) months and months in advance (after already getting HR's approval multiple times), leaving a huge bill for the employee. HR are absolute snakes. They will tell you anything, and meanwhile stab you in the back while planning how to legally oust you because the president doesn't like you. Management will try and tear down your self-confidence (and any chance of a bonus and promotion) by messing with your reviews for the tiniest problems (that shouldn't have even been on a review for that calendar year or at all in nearly every case at a "normal" place of work) even when in the past you had great performance reviews. This is how they tear down your self-esteem and confidence. Turn over at this place is really high. They attract in top talent from out of state, but then the talent realizes they've walked into the twilight zone of egotistical, micromanaging, bully bosses along with people that don't want to do or are incompetent at their job, and most of them with any professionalism can and do move on quickly. If they don't, it's typically because they like living in Cody so much that they won't leave and they put up with all the negative politics and drama. Also, sexual issues at work run rampant here. Multiple sexual violations at work and management doesn't do so much as a write up for those involved. Sex at work between women married with kids and a single guy shouldn't be allowed. Things that are inexcusable work behavior are tolerated, even ignored here. Any sexual harassment or misbehavior at work will not be dealt with let alone resolved in any sort of professional manner. Whatever it is, it will keep going on, ruining both the professional work environment as well as personal lives of those involved (small town gossip, anyone?) These are all very real and truthful things that I am surprised no one has mentioned yet in a review. The CEO keeps a side "assistant" in Wyoming, and he's based in Philly. The rumor mill says she's his mistress. That's the kind of thing accepted from the top all the way down to the Cody facility. Nothing will change until the top riffraff (President of Cody Labs and CEO of Lannett) is out and things get majorly restructured. All that garbage that is embraced at the top just infiltrates the entire organization. There is no escaping it.