The aerotek recruiters for Wuxi actively admit that there are huge issues here. They consistently share and confirm that Wuxi underpays by ~40% as compared to the rest of the industry. Women are paid at least 10% less than there male counterparts. Huge issues with supply chain and safety are acknowledged and joked about everyday by management, with no plans or effort to improve. Expired media and reagents are stocked and used on a regular basis, with the full knowledge of management and senior technicians. Materials, viruses and bio hazardous materials are regularly improperly stored and disposed of. Client materials marked for GLP and non commercial usage are used in GMP for profit laboratories without client consent. New technicians are inadequately trained and constantly overworked. Technicians are forced to work with HIV+ material outside of BSL3 laboratories (no BSL3 labs onsite) or face termination. Employees who document continued violations of OSHA, FDA, and GMP regulations; and offer solutions to fix the issues, are terminated without cause. Falsification of data and backdating are encouraged to improve workflow and reduce NCEs. Contamination issues are at least a monthly occurrence. Workplace culture is rampant with nepotism, harassment, and sexual/racial discrimination. Professional and personal development is discouraged on all levels. Last years christmas party was at Lucky Strikes in Center City and cost the company less than $8 per person. Bonuses are reduced every year for technicians, despite record profits and constant building of new facilities. Management is encouraged to develop laboratory spaces that are overcrowded and safety risks to the technicians that work in them. Site and internet security is extremely poor. Phishing attacks and network blackouts are a weekly occurrence. Employees must share login/passwords in order to use equipment. Electronic locks are regularly disabled so that employees without clearance may access equipment. Equipment is consistently returned from metrology recalibrated, yet broken. BSCs and incubators fail on a monthly basis and are kept in service until they completely die. New equipment is bought to improve operations and then kept in storage for years. Hourly employees are given more work than they can complete in a workday and then punished for getting overtime. Senior technicians are encouraged by management to intimidate and harass new employees into doing things they are not trained or qualified to do. Management will not hold themselves or their favorites accountable for their mistakes and instead punish all of their employees.
