The WHO: There are tight social circles between the employees, management, and vendors that make transparency and job performance suffer (basically if you are not part of their group, you will be ostracized). It was odd how no one realized the detriment being done to the department/company by being unable/unwilling to recognize where improvement and professionalism is needed because of personal relationships. There was no training or on boarding from management, the environment is very much like high school complete with loud gossiping, complaining, and lies about anyone within the company. This alone made the department exhausting because a lot of times the person would have just left the dept, the audacity. Also, I had samples misplaced/damaged, sabotage, abuse of power by management, excluding employees from work related meetings, etc. The overall tone seemed to be personal relationships held more value than professionalism, performance, and policy. Management does not use discretion, the details of every meeting I had with them was repeated back to the department. I had to report my coordinator and manager to themselves, keep my composure while they feigned ignorance, then bite my tongue when a temp repeated the details of the meeting back to me a few hours later. My direct coordinator would ignore calls, emails, requests for help/training, and would offer to help audiably but never actually do it. He may have had the experience to perform his job but lacked the backbone to implement, the skills to organize and create structure, and especially lacked the maturity to perform his job dispassionately. Never giving in to negativity was my saving grace. 1 Samuel 2
