laboratory animal technician

truck driver

animal technician

product support

scientist

Inotiv

What is the best part of working at the company?
There really wasn't anything good about it. I can't even say the employees were nice or fun, everyone was just exhausted and grumpy. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management uses bullying tactics to work you to the bone. I was scheduled for 14 hour days, some with only 5hrs between shifts (this isn't what they tell you in interviews by the way). When I brought it up to management I was verbally attacked. It was also pretty frustrating to hear management announcing all the vacations they were taking, meanwhile getting a day off felt like you were doing something wrong. Ultimately expect to work overnight, weekends and all holidays. 
Working conditions are gross, and you can end up being wet for hours on end. A few people ended up with skin rashes because of it. 
Staff don't last longer than 6months so they're always short handed, meaning you have to cover evenings and weekends on top of the long week days. Don't count on getting lunch breaks either. 
The training is awful, and they say you can advance if you complete additional courses, but there's no time to actually take them... It felt kind of like a scammy selling point looking back on it. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It has a clean corporate exterior, but it's stressful and cut-throat underneath.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Long. Oh, man. Just don't ever expect to actually work your scheduled hours. Tack a couple of hours onto either side and you'll be closer.

Every single aspect of your day is micromanaged. If you work inside the barrier, your breaks and lunches are assigned to you along with start and end time. You stay inside the building during your 8-12 hour shift and shower for 3 minutes in chlorinated water before entering and exiting. Since it is a “maximum barrier facility”, they determine what you have for lunch that day because of the dynamic of bringing foods inside the building. It was always frozen meals, instant noodles, and sometimes those ready made salads. 
 
There is no veterinarian or anyone qualified that you can go to for input on the animals health.. Equipment that is around 30+  years old breaks down daily and causes more problems. I seen overcrowding, drowning, sick, and/or dying animals multiple times a week. You will have to euthanize thousands of animals a week to follow quotas.
When I arrived I received little to no consistent, documented, hands on training on the individual tasks I was assigned. They want to do anything to get you to work there so they pretend to care about your concerns.  

Management themselves have no relevant experience in the field and will speak badly about you amongst each other just because you questioned their practices. There is no consideration for impartiality. Everyone “gossips” about everyone. No one really has the integrity to truly follow SOPs and policies through and through. 

Outdated facility, outdated workplace culture, outdated practices. I’m so glad I got out

What is the best part of working at the company?
They offer decent 401k matching

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The division I worked for, research animals, is a dying industry, and the company is run completely based off profits. There is no culture. The only culture is to work hard for a company profits. They acquired Envigo, the beagle torture facility in Virginia, and they have several other similar facilities for other animals, they call them research models. It's really a horrible place to work. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
All management cares about is profits, and it shows in every decision they make. Local management would become stressed out when interacting with corporate management, which was driving the profit only culture. It's a horrible place to work.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
As a facility manager, I was tasked with maintaining 50 and 60 year old equipment that was needed to maintain a sterile environment to raise their research models. Before we were acquired by Inotiv, it was a decent place to work. Because we all got along and had camaraderie. After the acquisition, however, everything became about profitability and all my work and excessive extensive documentation and trying to manage crew and staff only mattered about one thing. It's a horrible place to work.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The only best part was the flexibility in the schedule 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Never having support from management, high turnover, never having staff.  Not feeling appreciated at all by any upper management.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic, very toxic full of drama.  Even upper management will talk poorly about staff to other staff.  They try to make it seem like they build a positive culture but it is far from it.  They just use you and don't carr.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
It is pretty simple, but you do not have a work life balance.  You have to fight to get one, you will be lucky if you ever leave on time.  Your expected to work your 8 hours and leave, when you do them is your choice, but they will schedule you for extra stuff that causes you to work almost 10+ hours without talking to you.  There is no teamwork, it is always the same people being forced to do the long shifts when others get to leave on time and never offer to help.

Here’s the advice I wish someone had given me before I accepted this job, if you have any other options, take them instead. 

I thought maybe I’d just started at a bad time, but the bad reviews and apparent continued high turnover since I’ve left make it clear that is not case. This place just can’t get it together. 

It’s a poorly designed facility that’s overbooked with animals by out of touch management. Extremely high turnover in animal care because management leaves the animal care techs to pick up all their slack without any concern for their time or physical effort. 

This job felt like a bait and switch after what had been a great interview experience. The management team that was always willing to jump in and lend a hand that I’d been told about in the interviews simply didn’t exist. Animals husbandry standards are depressing. Just believe the reviews and move on. Not worth your health and sanity. 


This place sure did seem to be a great place at the start.  Hired into one team and was quickly passed along to another with the discussion of being able to come back to said original team if I was no longer needed on the new team.  First day back from my recent vacation time off, received a video meeting invite and just like that, let go from the company who was "downsizing" apparently.  I was even was emailing to my lead on the new team as well as my lead from my initial team earlier in the day about using PTO for an extended holiday weekend and neither one of them mentioned a thing about being let go either at that time.  "Great" communication from my leaders for sure and being blind sided with no warnings about being let go from the job either.  

Work Environment: Most teammates will get along with each other and have each others back. Otherwise, the work is exhausting when working alone. There is hardly any growth. It is either find another job, change position or stay stuck. 

Pay/Benefit: Raises are very rare and if given, it will be in the cents. It is very rare to be giving raises beyond a dollor. The benefits keeps getting worse. It was actually decent previously but in the recent years, cost of insurance keeps increasing while the quality of the insurance is dropping. 401K match was removed and despite mentioning it come back in the future, most likely it wont. 

Management: Horrible. Comments and complaints fall upon deaf ears and typically ignored. It is viewed as a weakness and often the management's response is blaming the person who brought up the said comments and/or complaints. 

I learned a lot from this job but man management is so disconnected with teams. The building is run down and when things were working as they should, operations were smooth, but alas most of the time something went wrong or the machinery would break down causing last minute chaos. I was constantly working overtime to make sure things ran smoothly and when i didn’t i received backlash from falling behind.  It honestly felt like i couldn’t catch a break, missing my third break constantly to get tasks finished so i didn’t have to stay extra overtime. I got burnt and drained quickly with the constant feeling of being on my toes to prevent any disruption in workflow. The people were fun and friendly, but with the little incentives/compensation i received for the weight i pulled wasn’t worth sacrificing my time and health for.

A chronically short staffed company with corporate meddling and micro management. Most of the employees and branch managers are decent but the corporate big wigs who make decisions are clueless and cutthroat. You will be thrown into the job with little to no training. God forbid you make a mistake because it will be held against you even if it wasn’t your fault. I would give one star but the pay and benefits were very good. If you decide to work there, always have a backup plan in case you have to leave. I was the fourth driver to be fired/quit in two months. Because of this high turnover, you can make lots of money in overtime. Soak it up while it lasts because chances are they will get rid of you.

My job is mostly sedentary, I would say that's one of the negatives about my role here, although there are plenty of opportunities to get up and walk around inside or outside the building. My supervisor is amazing, and respects me as a person. The most enjoyable part of the job is the flexibility - I have autonomy over my work hours, and how I spend my day. the most frustrating part of my job is lack of advancement. I recently earned a credential that was related to my role, and HR refused to pay for my exam, stating that it was not related to my role. There are no advancing levels for my job title, with advancing job responsibilities. Overall, it's a great place to work.

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