Where do I start? Alphabetical or chronological? Well, let's start with chronological. Everything was great at first during the Novartis transition, however once all the vestiges of the former company were gone, a slow but noticeable trend towards reducing costs was established. First it was the elimination of the Kaiser HMO, then the First Friday morale parties disappeared, then severe cutbacks to departmental budgets. We couldn't requisition equipment necessary to do our jobs and had to make do with deteriorating equipment that failed and resulted in more cost overruns due to repeated tests. When the equipment ultimately failed, managers would try to blame employee incompetence rather than the faulty and near-obsolete equipment.
As employees fled, the workload was distributed to the remaining workers whose task lists increased every week until some were staying past 10pm 3 nights a week. Where were the managers? On their way home at 4:30pm. None of them acknowledged the extra work put in just to meet the schedule and some employees were chastised for coming in on the weekends for trying to catch up with the impossible timeline. Despite this, numerous delays occurred as the level of quality dropped due to overworked employees.
Grifols has preferential treatment for managers that come from Spain when it comes to promotions. Unless you speak Catalan, don't expect to move very quickly up the ladder. The Peter Principle is in full effect here with lots of managers incapable of actual management.
If you're thinking of working here, don't. If you've already accepted their offer, back out. If you already work here, find another job. It's just not worth it. When a department loses 73% of its workers in 18 months, that's a good indicator that it sucks.
