Lower management at the Indianapolis site is on a power trip and does not seem to value their employees. Bonuses are consistently withheld (used to get 2 bonuses a year now it's 1 and even then it's not guaranteed). Promotions and raises are a joke. There are extremely smart and hardworking people who have worked there for years and do not get to moved upward at all/receive a laughable raise. They have technicians performing tasks that are ABOVE AND BEYOND outside of their job description without giving raises or promotions for it. They hold promotions over techs heads and then make you feel like you have to be extremely grateful once you do get it. The lower management is also clique-y and the team coordinators and supervisors are mostly either cruel, incompetent or a combination of both. I worked under a lower manager who consistently broke SOPs, talked down to their techs, was a disruption at work, lied about other technicians for no reason (no seriously), and more. The managers here show insane favoritism toward certain techs (and it's not always techs who deserve it's often just the ones who kiss up to management). Azenta's HR is a joke. They do not do anything when issues are brought to them. They hire on, promote, and do not fire people who are PROVEN to be harassing/assaulting others. -- Technicians will get in trouble for working on things that they are literally assigned to do, just because lower management doesn't seem to deem these tasks as worthy or valuable to their team, even though that is exactly what the technician has been ASSIGNED TO DO. The attendance policy is also cruel. You can have a family emergency and you will get an occurrence. You could get COVID and they will force you to stay home and then give you an occurrence. During times of in-climate weather, they bully and force techs to drive in dangerous conditions. One snowstorm we were all essentially told to show up and that we are replaceable. -- Once we switched over to a new system the trainings were mismanaged, the supervisors did not manage client expectations and then the techs were the ones who took the fall for it (i.e not getting a bonus due to "low output". The actual training department itself is overall great, but if lower management has any hand in anything at that site, you best believe that it's going to be mismanaged or run poorly. By the month, the quality of life here dwindles. Azenta refuses to give substantial raises that coincide with the ongoing inflation that is happening. They continue to try to take any form of positivity or fun away from the techs (no longer allowed to wear buttons on their lab coats which is very helpful for people to express themselves/their gender identity). Lower management expects their techs to be robots and to not ever have an ounce of fun or anything at a place where they spend 42.5 hrs every week. Meanwhile, lower management continuosly gossips, talks negatively about the techs on the floor, goofs off, play on their phones in areas where we aren't even supposed to have our phones out, and more. It's honestly so backwards and a total double standard. Additionally, techs have been laid off or fired for things that management gets by with all the time. All in all, don't work here. It's a harsh environment that put me on the brink of mental collapse daily.
