North Chicago fermentation STAY AWAY - HVAC Maintenance Technician AbbVie Employee Review

1.0
Aug 2, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Nice benefits and pay decent work schedule More responsibilities less pay look no further

Cons

Incompetence at its finest in the fermentation maintenance group. Brand new management thinks that hiring another project manager is going to fix its problems let alone that project manager is Incompetent at his job. They let go their entire hvac group of seniors who specialized in critical equipment. Project manager supposedly has experience in hvac but farms out the work. Management is just looking for a gopher to step and fetch for this project manager because he is lazy and old and doesn't want to do anything hvac related. They want to screw your pay and dump more responsibilities on you. All that's left is the retirees that are waiting on there final day. Place is shutting down buildings and big projects are next to none if you aren't in the construction division.

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