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I Don't Know What Happened - QC Chemist Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

1.0
21 May 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

My boss and department were kind, but didn't get to have a say in what happened.

Cons

I was fired and I don't know why. I had a great boss and my department was really great. I received a call one Friday night saying that my assignment was suddenly ended because of some complaints from a rival department. I was completely blindsided and didn't receive any feedback other than that I was out of a job. All I know is that I did my job as best as I could and some angry young people who don't know me and never talked to me didn't like me and formed a coup to get me fired. It makes me sad that people lead with their anger and form judgments of others rather than taking the time to get to know people their own age.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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