Merck Lab Tech II reviews

Terrible management. Get ready to earn every cent of your pay check and then some. Older employees pawn off work, work is unbalanced and uneven. Merck prides itself on ergonomics but doesn't know the meaning of the word. Employees are not trained, company is all about MONEY cutting costs and not worrying about employees. VIRKON is terrible! Extremely hard to move in the comapny. Awful home to work ratio, you're always at work and overtime is mandatory.

The work was very menial, physical. A lot of scrubbing walls, ceilings, floors, then going back and sanitizing walls, ceilings, floors. Dealing with high temps, high humidity environment at times Changing clothes several times per day, working in bunnysuits (coveralls with hood and boots, face mask, two pair of gloves, safety glasses, basically no part of body uncovered) Not a lot of use of my BS in biology, mostly physical labor. High turnover rate in production area (where I worked) After rumors about the Intervet being bought out, the company insisted that they were not for sale, then were bought several months later. Minimum of 3-5 years before potential for promotion or major pay increase Pay was slightly lower than other similar jobs in the area