Pros
You get paid twice a month, sometimes for holidays there's free lunch. Gloves and lab coats provided.
Cons
Very easy to make mistakes because SOPs are very vague. New rules are put in place but only a few employees are informed. Allowing for the others to be written up. This comes from all levels of management. Very, very low professionalism. HR is only there to protect the company no interest in the employee. Cliches run rampant and decide who is given advancements. I haves and have nots are very obvious. Knowledge and degrees mean nothing. Many jobs are opened and filled secretly never being publicly posted within the company, filled with new outside employees. Growth within the company is promised and never received. No interest in cross training current employees. Work increased <50% but only received 2% raise. No bonuses, no 401k matching. Lab week is a farce. Leads are fascist dictators who know little about the job but all about how to get perfectly good employees fired. Revolving door of employees, most stay for less than six months. Always a sense of impending disciplinary action for expressing issues with work. Work place bullying is rampant in my department and others. Supervisors spend more time paying attention to who's talking to whom instead of focusing on their job.
