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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Thank god it was just a filler job. - Sales Representative Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

2.0
4 Apr 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Easy to get a job. Generally nice people to work with. Inexpensive coffee in the cafeteria. Inside sales is pretty easy, we get an assigned territory and you spend all day on the phone.

Cons

Employee respect from managers is minimal (we are treated like school children) No communication between different branches (sales, accounting, shipping...) Working in a windowless basement, Inside sales was a pain too, because our sales volume, is pretty much the same as the outside sales staff, but we get half the pay and the outside folks get a car allowance. a car allowance would have been nice, since i had to drive 2 hours in traffic each way EVERY day. Snowstorms were damaging too...manager would tell me to leave even earlier and stay later, basically spending 5 hours in a car in order to spend 8 more at work.

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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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