Pros
Overtime is where you make your money.
Cons
Where to even start. The pay is super low for the environmental industry. You start out without having a degree at $13 an hour and with a degree it's $15 an hour. You get a pay raise once you get DOC in tests that you are learning, but that's it. Once you get that .50cents pay raise you don't see yourself getting one for a while, unless the Leadership Team decides to give you one somehow, when it's not in their budget. The leadership team is idiots, along with the team leads of that department. They cannot be trusted and will throw you under the bus. One team lead only got that job because they "had management experience" but knows nothing about the tests they are running. The other one got it because they were the only one left at the time. This one team lead likes to wander off all day and not do their jobs. The technical supervisor if he's even still there the smartest one in that building, followed by the supervisor of wet chem. They know the most about the water lab. This lab is micromanaged horribly. People of the water lab are very depressed because they get hammered by samples every single day and they don't have the equipment/ people to run those samples. Water lab is falling apart because they let all their good employees walk out the door without giving them a pay raise because it wasn't in their budget and because of how bipolar some of the leadership team can be. One of the higher ups needs to be more involved in the lab portion instead of the leadership team sugar coating everything. The favoritism is unreal at this location. You get punished for calling in, when it's your right to take off. Login doesn't log samples in for almost a whole week, they expect you to do it and then gets mad when you sticker them, even though it's blowing hold. The people upfront cancel samples without even telling you they are cancelled. There is zero communication at this lab between everyone.
