Working at EMSL Analytical

This place only benefits fresh out of college graduates.

Low pay at every position and unrealistic sample analysis quotas. Be prepared to be the only analyst on your shift and have either the client or corporate send orders containing over 100 samples for a 24 hours TAT. And that would be only one order out of the dozen of other orders to be completed within that day. No sick days, everything is PTO which is only 10 days for your first 2 years. High turnover rate. No path for promotion. Raises only occur once a year for employees who have at least 1 year of working, which occurs at January or July (dependent on when you were hired), capped at 3%. So if you make 20 per hour, a 3% raise is 60 cents. You only get a 3% raise if you did enough samples; 50 a day for direct exam/ spores traps, 80-100 a day for PLM, PCM, and TEM. If your lab doesn't bring in enough clients, then too bad, no 3% raise for you. No support from corporate upper management, who each and every one of them is delusional. I've met the company owner once he mentioned the midtown Manhattan area as a relatively cheap area to live in.

None.

Nothing about them is to be praised. They once sent a email asking to improve the company reputation and had to guts to type in the email "Do not ask for higher wages."

They hire anyone with a pulse due to their high turnover. I was unemployed and a man has got to eat, so I took the job.

Higher wages. 20 per hour in NYC and California is unlivable. Higher wages would bring better candidates. Another improvement would be for them to sell the company, as leadership is rotten at the top. I had female coworkers questioned on their maternity leave validity by corporate. Literally anyone else would be an improvement.

Way below average.

The laboratory analyst ethnicity is pretty diverse. Almost everyone at corporate upper management is white and/ot Italian.

Leaving for the day.