Abbott reviews

Repeatedly cutting employees, adding more layers of managers, way too much work to do related to the number of available employees. At first, we were able to absorb more and more work by working early mornings, evenings, weekends and during time off such as vacations. There was no such thing as work life balance despite that being one of Abbott's goals. As even more employees weren't replaced, and more new complex products were launched, there weren't enough hours anymore to do the work. In addition: 1. Antiquated hardware and software on the brink of failure. 2. Required return to the office rules when you could get more done at home without fighting traffic both ways. 3. Threatening people who refuse to return to the office. 4. Horrible coffee in each breakroom. 5. Horrible food in the cafeterias and no menus. 6. Open office except for managers. 7. Having to take conference calls in the open office (very disruptive). 8. Inadequate storage space for work records. Multiple people are storing work records and materials in cardboard boxes under their desks because there is no other place to put them.

Abbott management is very abrasive and condescending. As I mentioned above, many people left or were pushed out but they were not replaced. Abbott management expected/demanded that the work get absorbed by those remaining. Many people are doing the work of two or three with no additional compensation. In some cases, workers were expected to take on the work of their departed manager without additional compensation or even a title upgrade. It appears their business model as it relates to quality has four steps*: 1) cut cut cut costs obsessively for two years. 2) Earn an FDA warning letter 3) spend $ millions remediating two years worth of work 4) repeat * (for abbott lawyers, this is just my opinion and nothing more. Any appearance of disclosing trade secret is purely coincidental)