I understand now why people say you have to be dillusional or someway insane to work for Abbott. How many years have ye given to this company who day after day, week after week, month after month go about 20 inches deep inside you. It seems alot of you have lost your souls or just enjoy taken it lads I gave a spell up there lasted a year. There is better work environments that pay better money in Clonmel look at Bulmers, Boston, MSD, Aldi, Lidl.
I know alot of people are holding on for redundancy but alot of ye won't even see retirement. Look at what it is doing to you and your health it takes it toll. Do you trust Abbott to give 8 weeks again like in 2013?
If you compare every medical device company in Ireland. Abbott actually pays the least and in other Abbott sites in Ireland all have a union yet smaller workforces
The problem in Clonmel is the competitive nature of the workforce, everyone on line is competing against eachother for a extra tenner in review. This leads to the culture of rats and a horrible work culture. This is not the way in a union workforce. Everyone pulls together for the common good if ye lads want to be competitive over a tenner your effectively robbing off the lad working beside you and taken food out of each others mouths. I found the whole situation horrible and left as soon as I could. It's a shame the biggest workforce in town can't come together to stop the madness.
