Its a job - Avoid Geochemistry if possible - Lab Technician SGS Employee Review

2.0
Aug 27, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- benefits are decent - good working hours

Cons

- terrible morale due to departmental cuts, mergers and worker layoffs - High turnover - placid work culture - coworkers and management have very little expertise or scientific background - poor health and safety training/enforcement when handling chemicals - little room for growth (in geochemistry at least) - senior management is clueless and by extension middle management

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Plenty of work, decent benefits

Cons

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