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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Don't Look For Honor, Integrity or Competence within the Management of this company. - Anonymous employee Thermo Fisher Scientific Employee Review

1.0
Sep 14, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Decent Benefits ... if you get to use them.

Cons

- the business is owned and managed by people who no longer know how to get the job done. "The Job" should be making a great product, selling, serving the customer etc. -"the Job" has become survival of management by throwing the worker under the bus to improve the bottom line; therefore management is killing off the business. That starts with frontline supervisors and goes all the way up to caring only about the artificial stock value in the Boardroom. - knowledge and skill is not appreciated, rewarded, nor is it acknowledged. -the culture is suck up nepotism, relational nepotism, and short sighted. -loyalty and productivity are not appreciated. - you will not find integrity in management - the latest wrinkle is to try and turn people into robots, shoving them into phone booth sized workspaces and counting the pieces of paper "allowed" to them in doing their job. To say its "Mickey Mouse" is an insult to Disney; it's just plain stupidity. No one in current management has the slightest idea how to motivate and inspire people to do great things but they are masters at demotivating and grinding people under, sucking out their life and then throwing them out with the trash.

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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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