Terrible Culture

This is the most horrific, micromanaging, asinine place I’ve ever worked for. I’m not sure how Director EK of the NE can sleep at night. GLaF is equally disturbing. Terrible culture, demeaning leadership. Get your blood drawn anywhere but here.

 

It has been this way for several years now. Believe it or not, it was once a good place to work with good leadership. Not many of us left to recall those days.

 

Sounds like you’re very ineffective at your job and that you require an inordinate amount of strict discipline. Your superiors should be commended for their effort. Unfortunately, someone with your poor attitude will never succeed and your employment at Quest Diagnostics should be terminated. You won’t recover.

 

I personally have worked with these individuals and GLaf for over 15 years and not once have I seen what you are describing. In fact, GLaf has been an inspirational leader for years at Quest and has promoted me and many others through his career. First time I saw his name ever on Pharma, so congrats for throwing him under the bus for no reason. It appears your anger is lashing out, you must not be doing something right. I would say over the course of 2020 Quest has done so much to help employees during COVID and to jump out and say this to give people a few black eyes for something undeservingly is completely unprofessional and honestly cowardly. Then to say never get your blood drawn at Quest is irrational. Hope it made you feel better to say this.... Good luck in your next endeavor, you will need it.

 

Disagree completely. It is still a great place to work...I can attest to that. It has improved so much in the past years, and know many great inspirational leaders at Quest.

 

Then you should leave if you're not happy or leave if you're not doing your job. That seems more logical than complaining for a few jabs at people and the company.

 

Please name some of those 'inspirational leaders'. Enlighten us.

 

Some divisions at Quest Diagnostics seem to be quite good, and you do seem to have good leaders.
R&D & Bioinformatics however is a ZOO. R&D in general (under Felicitas Lacbawan) is extremely weak and pathetic. I've worked in world-class scientific organizations before, and I am definitely embarrassed with the caliber of the science and scientists here.

Time to run from Quest.

 

Maybe it is just time for new leadership?

 

Inspirational leadership ended the day Ken Freeman left many years ago.

 

I don't understand it, these big companies, 8B+ revenue companies, have the capital to hire anyone, yet they cannot find great leaders? How is this possible?

 

After Ken left, we had a period of poor leadership. We are now in a period of robotic leadership.

 

I agree with you, but at what levels are you seeing this at?

 

how long ago was that? The good days?

 

Exactly....crickets!!!

 

Cant give exact dates, but in the years after Freeman left, many good leaders departed and were replaced by yes men and women that were willing to live with Surya making all decisions. In the current regime, the leadership is a cross between robotic/analytical types that don't inspire but are competent.

 

I agree, Data and Reports is what is valued currently.

 

There was an influx of data types after Freeman launched Six Sigma. Some came from GE and Siemens and most were poor leaders that never spent a day in the field and could not solve real world problems.

 

Bioinformatics has one chump from GE - Edward Moler. Bonafide garbage. He does NOTHING at work, but simply collects a free paycheck. The rest of the time he whiles away bootlicking his boss', or spending an enormous amount of time on LinkedIn finding people to network with (during work hours i.e), or prowling around for those in senior management that he can proceed to bootlick.

He is simply disgusting. He does nothing.

Look, R&D and Bioinformatics at Quest Diagnostics have NO competent leaders. The recently acquired BlueGenetics folks must be embarrassed to be part of Bioinformatics led by chumps in the United States.

 

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