Hire and fire culture, incompetent exec level managers, senior managers and HR staff. Financial planning at this company is laughable. Board made a decision to fund expand the company based on excellent performance figures, but no one thought that coming out of COVID, we would see an improvement in performance figures? No one thought that instead of investing heavily in the company, they should wait and see how the market played out instead of signing contracts that later put the company in a difficult position. The company went on a massive hiring spree and hired too many people, when in March 2023, there were clear signs that the market had shifted and no work was coming in... So why continue to hire into August of 2023?
A new biology building was opened in 2023 but is not at capacity and now the company is advertising the free space it has to try and generate revenue. Exec level say they couldnt get out of the contracts they signed two years ago. Well, how about you dont make plans to expand a company on anomalous growth results that came from the back end of COVID when things were opening up again? It doesnt take a genius to see that waiting was the best plan. This level of mismanagement and greed led to the company making 30% of the chemists redundant at the beginning of 2024 despite telling staff at the back end of 2023 that no redundancies were coming.
HR is very unprofessional and toxic. Members of the team have their clear favourites and if you're not "in" you're treated differently. There is no fairness here. If you don't fit in, they will find a way to push you out.
