QCs either come in (they are within values) or don't (re-run as necessary). Once the machines are prepped, set up QCs, run those. Showed up at 11, immediately start getting machines ready.
I would absolutely avoid working here! Your social life and mental health will take a deep dive, and you will either get sick of this place and quit or lose a lot of ambition. A lot of the issues here are directly due to management and leadership issues that is no secret to anyone who has been there for longer than a few weeks. Management turns a blind eye to bullying behavior, workplace harassment, and even theft. The compensation is terrible, similar to fast food wages and even less benefits! Management shows clear signs of favoritism and promotes gossiping with a break room clique. The workload for both Chemistry Lab Aides and Technician is unreasonable, with leadership expecting over 3000 samples during peak season to be processed in under 8 hours. The laboratory team lead's style of micromanaging lowers motivation and makes productivity below average, which means too much overtime or after-hours work. There’s no provision for performance bonuses, meaningful recognition awards or anything else. Staff are there to get the company’s work done, and that’s all. Their working environment has the minimum required to get the job done and rules are strict. The nitty gritty work is collecting samples and building analyzed samples into libraries. Overall, my work experience as a hematology lab aid and chemistry lab aid for Antech Diagnostics at Oak Brook, IL was stressful and poor. At least you have job security and they're lax about being late because they're desperate for - more. The differential pay is nice but constantly being in overtime for the first 4-6 months of the year is insane, and night shift is physically taxing on a lot of people. Workload is pretty bad and the repetitive motions are destroying people's backs, wrists, and shoulders, which is incredibly discouraging. A lot of burnout culture (Who Slept Less competitions, "You know technically the 15 min break is 10 + 5 because we're being nice but start counting after 10 mins."). Vacation accrual is a pittance, watch out because pto is used for holidays automatically and sick days, so just go in sick anyway i guess. The environment changes with the people they hire, you have to make an effort to make friends here because everyone hides in their car.
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If they grab your problem and start hacking away on the keyboard you have to demand they tell you what they did or you won't learn how to do it differently next time. You have to ask questions and take notes constantly or the leads (who are busy with other stuff other than supposedly training you) can get impatient and condescending. They're trying to get better about meetings and communication but even the training modules are dry, unintuitive standards of procedure - you don't need 5 pages to tell us how to put stickers on tubes. There's no reason someone should still be learning basic functions (like seeing what samples are required for a test) almost a year in.
Management really really needs to learn how to train people.