- In spite of how it’s advertised, the job is mostly janitorial, where you’re catering to the whims of other teams, making the work itself both degrading and unfulfilling
- There’s a lot of interesting projects going on, but your direct involvement is mostly limited to being a janitor/doordasher for those actually doing it
- Of the few things that aren’t janitorial, management has very little understanding about the nature of the work and doesn’t seem to know or do much of anything
- Management will delegate almost all of their tasks to the team, then throw the team under the bus to cover their own screwups
- Management will neglect to assign trainings, essentially setting you up to fail then using that as pretext against you
- I was told I needed to facilitate my own training, in spite of that being clearly listed as the responsibility of the lab manager
- I could not physically access the lab for weeks until I took matters into my own hands. This is the first time in any job I was tasked with doing my own onboarding
- Team members will police each other at the behest of management
- Coworkers will hold you to double standards, like when they occasionally take three hour long coffee breaks off campus then complain when they see you taking your 10 minute break
- The excessive surveillance and monitoring coming from the team and manager made it feel as though you needed to be out of sight anytime you wanted to take one of your breaks
- Some of those people display poor emotional regulation, where they will insult, yell, and badmouth colleagues in front of management with no consequences, in large part because they absorb a lot of that manager’s responsibilities, albeit very poorly
- There’s also an undercurrent of sabotage, where certain people will withhold information about assignments, push you out of trainings, and make revisions to your work schedule without notice
- Management lies pathologically about almost everything and engages in gossiping and mudslinging themselves, both contributing and enabling that toxic work culture while sowing distrust
