Place was chaos to work in. Constant equipment failures meant going from crisis to crisis. Probably due to the lack of preventative maintenance. Equipment sourced not fit for purpose also causing problems but hands are tied to make it work as that’s how the process has been validated. Also budget restraints.
Real issues with reasonable expectations. High workload and short timeframes to complete work. Would regularly be given a task with half an hour or so left in my day and be told it was required for near enough first thing the following day (urgent). If there were any roadblocks you were met with critique rather than support from some colleagues which made for uncomfortable weekly meetings. I was asked to work on things I had no experience with, this was highlighted at the time but didn’t matter as no one seemed to know any better than I did. Literally no training in the role whatsoever. Sink or swim situation.
An uncomfortable ‘us and them’ mindset running through the place. Felt mostly between the Glasgow and EP sites. It felt like a lot of cloak and dagger. Also between the manufacturing department and anyone who worked in the office. It seemed as though the supervisors in manufacturing were in constantly disagreement with everything, had a very negative outlook on the business, would actively go against instruction and would encourage the same in their direct reports. There was a combative mindset here to anyone who wasn’t in manufacturing and a strong resistance to change. I believe these individuals have since left the business though, so this may be better since.
Health and safety department…
When I worked there the company was collagen solutions so, trying to be fair, these issue may be being addressed by the new management.
