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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Bad Management, Poor communications, constant job eliminations, minimal pay increases - Human Resources Coordinator Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

1.0
26 Apr 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

decent benefit package and that is it

Cons

WOW....This company is full of Directors and VP's, none of them required to actually work from what I can tell. Thermo does a tremendous amount of planning and not enough doing. unreachable targets are eventually met by eliminating positions. tremendous pressure not to report accidents and to label anyone silly enough to report one, a "bad"employee. Inept managers are reassigned whereas average workers are fired. the operation out of Pittsburgh is run like a club for overpaid not very effective leaders. What a mess!!!!

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Pros

Flexibility, Culture, Opportunity, Compensation, Experience

Cons

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1.0
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Pros

If you're stuck in the Greenville area for some unfortunate reason, it's a job.

Cons

This place is functionally a mafia. The same rotating cast of "old head" people that have been at the site for decades watches each other's backs, and overworks everyone else. God help you if you're actually capable or smart, because they will overload you as much as possible, while ensuring that they, and their pals, do as little as possible. They really have no concept of capacity management at all. There is no math, metrics, or even mild logic that goes in to how they define R&R or distribute work. No one really knows how to do anything at all. Things that sound simple, like shipping a sample for instance.. Well, clear your afternoon. It doesn't help that all of their systems are completely antiquated. I should also note that you won't get any support on anything really, from training to execution. No one wants to be here, and it's so obvious. The place looks and feels like a prison because it is. It doesn't even pay that well compared to other pharma companies! That barbed wire isn't there to keep people out, it's to keep them in.

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