Vantaggi
Good as a starter job to gain lab experience. Pay is above average for starting. Fellow employees are generally decent people.
Svantaggi
No flexibility in schedule. Scheduling a day off, even without pay, is an impossibility. Constantly understaffed. Redundant, irrelevant, and outdated tests are the norm, with no course for suggestions or making them modern. Management is focused on "catching" employees in petty situation which leads to write ups rather than actually providing tools, information, or support to do the job. The first aim of each employee is to cover their tracks, mitigating the odds that they will be chosen as the daily scape goat. Pay is okay for a starting position but the plant is a Union shop so you'll be making the same as people who have been their for 20 years. There is no chance for advancement or pay raises, a little detail no one will tell you when they offer you the job. Other departments will reminded you as often as possible that they lack a college degree but earn as much,or more, than you. The lack of respect for the lab is the icing on the cake. Management distrusts and ignores lab results if they delay with production schedules. In essence the lab exist only to create documentation. A tremendous expansion of the plant doubled work load with no new hires and a laboratory 30 years out dated. No tools or support to do the job. There is a false sense of safety which borders as a scam. Posters brag of 1500+ days without an injury while broken bones, burns, ect are all sweep under the rug. Loopholes in injury definitions are exploited to win awards from corporate.