Unfortunately, the previous poster was spot on. It is the way that things are done at LabCorp. For the person who posted "...Genzyme used to be a place where you built up your career and where you had some kind of security because you did a good job, worked hard and were rewarded..." Those exact words describe LabCorp in its former state, not so long ago. These days we have a lawyer for a CEO(that should pretty well sum up everything that you need to know about LCA), and a Corporate mentality that has makes the term "micro-manage" seem laughable. Corporate is interested in two things: 1) bonuses and 2) making acquisitions to prop up the stock price so that investors don't really find out what's going on behind the scenes.
In truth, LCA has/is losing business like crazy. Corporate is powerless to stem the flow of lost business because they insist on putting cronies/incompetents/butt-kissers in positions of authority, that have no clue what they are doing, or how to do it. There is no leadership, from middle-management on up. The good managers are only able to keep their jobs because they have become adept at dodging s***balls thrown at them, from Burlington, and trying to keep idiocy-generated stupidity, i.e. formal company policies, to some sort of manageable level. They spend an enormous amount of time trying to keep the "target" off of their own backs so that they can make some real differences for employees in spite of corporate stupidity. Gone are the days of employee input and feedback. Any suggestion, idea or notion offered by employees, these days, only serves to have said employee labeled as a trouble-maker or disgruntled, necessitating their removal from the employee rollcall, ASAP!
LCA cannot and should not be trusted, most especially when it comes to promises made regarding severance. Prime examples of their misleading and devious policies are the way that they treated the folks in Evansville, Louisville and a few other places several years ago, when they closed the lab, and shifted the work to Columbus. If you go back to the not-so-distant past, on the these boards, and read some of the threads you can get a real feel for how LCA treats their employees. You will have to wade through some crap to get there, but you should be able to decipher which post are genuine, and which are BS. LCA was once a place where people loved to work; where there was a sense of community; where we all worked for the same company with one purpose and goal in mind... that being the delivery of ACCURATE and TIMELY test results. Employee input was encouraged; ideas were welcome; discussions were held and the company generally looked out for the employee. Sadly, that LCA is no more, extinct like the dinosaurs. Corporate greed and dictatorial policies rule the day. Unfortunately, there are no brighter days on the horizon, unless, of course, you manage to escape and find a job elsewhere. So, there it is then. Good luck!
