Medical device manufacturing can often mean plenty of OT. Sometimes it can be a bit much and makes it difficult to work-life balance but it's still tolerable. What unbearable most is the toxic culture. People are considered objects or expenses rather than assets. The heartless company will not hesitate to lay off half of the workforce and resort to temp workers to get their numbers in the green. OSH Act means nothing Medtronic. Management spends little concern for employee safety or well-being, even during the sensitive time of Covid-19. Reactions to infectious workers are slow and inadequate, putting others at greater exposure risks. When news broke out on virus casualty, management did nothing to keep calm, rather, they enforced lip sealing policy to avoid liability. Incompetent and poorly educated leadership team infiltrates the manufacturing plant, spreading the "KISS-UP" and "KICK-DOWN" mentality, and uses layoffs and fears to prevent employees from speaking their minds. Favoritism rings high and reflects in every aspect of operations, including hiring/layoff/promotion/reward decisions and job assignments. People gangs up to survive. Some, including myself, decide to stay mute and numb to get the days by and continue bringing home the paychecks. Needless to say, there's high levels of stress, turnover, absenteeism, and burnout. The misguided leadership reach far and wide, resulting in total disconnection between upper management and employees at the bottom layers. This ignorance is perhaps a byproduct of their willingness to sacrifice the workers for company's bottomline.
