Pros
Flexible with hours to an extent, where you could come in early and leave early if need be, or work longer hours one day to make up for a short day during the fiscal week.
Cons
The workload put onto laboratory employees and project managers is unattainable. There are never enough people in a lab, so one person is typically doing the work of three people, with no compensation to show for it. Samples are logged in with no regard to current workload of the laboratory technicians and analysts, and the instruments are barely functioning after tons of servicing. Pay is abysmal, with EMSL starting new employees off at just above the poverty line so you can't afford your bills but you're not eligible for assistance. Raises never come, unless you change positions, but then it still takes up to three months to see anything. Moving from a technician to an analyst only increases your pay by $1 an hour, despite a more demanding workload. Sales people are constantly asking project managers to do their tasks for them while they reap the benefits. Commissions and bonuses are given to the sales team and higher ups, but the sales team barely helps the company function and the higher ups are all related to the president of the company, aka super nepotistic. The people that have worked here for years are complacent to a business structure that is designed to line the pockets of the higher ups while keeping the employees struggling under the weight of shirked responsibilities. HR is also a joke as they do not handle issues at all, yet will make sure to mislead the entire company that there will be holiday hours paid when in reality you're taking a holiday half day with half the pay as well. PTO is sad, with only 10 days a year and you must use them before taking an unpaid day off, so if you're sick in January that's it. The chemistry department is ran by an out of touch business major whose only concern is giving the company more money yet he doesn't ensure the labs are capable of handling the workload.
