Awful. - Anonymous employee TKL Research Employee Review

1.0
17 Oct 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There aren't many good things to say about this insane asylum.

Cons

This is one of the most unhealthy and miserable places that I have ever had to work for in all of my years of employment. I don't know where to begin. You are put under constant pressure because like what others have said, deadlines are just insane. There are no career opportunities and you cannot grow. There is no training and you basically teach yourself. You don't get raises because it all stays at upper management. There are no courses available to help advance your career, no tuition reimbursement, and what courses they do have, are a joke (basic High School courses). The health benefits are awful and expensive. There are no kind of summer perks.. no summer Fridays.. not many vacation days nor holidays. And no time off between Christmas and New Years either. There is no work life balance. If you aren't working in the office for 10 hours, you then just bring it home at night, work some more, and then work on the weekends. You're lucky if you get to see your family and do errands. Senior management is a joke. Period. Most are so full of themselves and don't even know what they are doing. There are a few decent ones. Attitudes are disgusting. People treat certain people like gold and other people like scum. It is such an immature office full of terrible politics.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

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Cons

Management is poor, nurses here are not respected, bare minimum training provided, clinical coordinators are not all on the same page (creating confusion for staff and subjects alike), and drama runs rampant (you will receive many vague emails from higher ups regarding random drama between other colleagues, making threats in order to get everyone to behave). Another word on the drama aspect - it is clearly not properly addressed, as when I was there it never actually was resolved. Among it all, you always had this one particular person who was basically the “puppet master”, stirring the pot, spreading rumors, particularly about certain supervisors. Talk about toxic. Priorities at this place when I was there were not at all where they should have been. Also, they would often pressure us to try and push subjects to agree to participate in a study, in order to fill as many studies as possible. Some of the clinical coordinators would get angry if all of the studies weren’t filling up. The purpose of informed consent is to let the possible “subject” make their own educated decision about participating in a research study. Not to try and coerce them into it. That just isn’t right, nor is it ethical.

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