low pay, management expected a certain turnaround time so 11 hour shifts were common and expected, favoritism is rampant so certain individuals will likely be chosen to move up over others, technicians were constantly pulled into other departments so the workload was even greater for those still in main lab, management gives early shifts out like hotcakes making it so the rush of samples that come into the lab later on in the day shift is mostly taken on by the later shifts of which there is not a lot, new procedures will be implemented and no one is specifically told the changes for weeks (i.e. changing the incubator for certain tests, changing the agar used for specific tests, etc).