Pros
None that spring to mind, but there is a 20 word minimum so you have to type something. No pros at all.
Kontras
An honest review I feel I should write an honest review of my tenure at Source Bioscience. Not long after I started, my boss gave me a word of warning. ‘Do not take time off sick. The directors hate nothing more, and will make your life hell if you do’. At the time, it didn't concern me. In 12 years of employment, I'd never had more than the very occasional day off sick. Little did I know how working for this company would have life-changing effects on my health. Soon after I started, I discovered I was the fourth person in three years to hold my job. Pretty strange I thought, perhaps there was a good reason for it. By a few weeks in, I was working sometimes 7-day weeks, often 12 hour shifts. It was intense, but seemed the norm as others would do the same thing. Then started the travel. Berlin one day. Scotland the next. Then Ireland. Time with my young family was becoming a precious commodity. We then started providing support to our US Offices. A 12 hour shift then continued at home, providing telephone support on call, every week, until midnight. This was in addition to having the entire IT infrastructure resting on my shoulders, with no support and no escalation path (why pay for vendor support?). Appraisals came and went. Promises made and never delivered. Management continued to not listen to frequent concerns raised about the integrity of the infrastructure. No process, no procedure, no support, just constantly moving goalposts as and when things broke. I started becoming ill around 8 months in. The stress had gotten to me, and I was struck down by numerous illnesses. Bursitis. Tonsillitis. Migraines. The doctor warned me that my job was having a negative effect on my health; I ignored him. Anxiety, panic attacks, more migraines. A serious bout of tonsillitis hospitalised me. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, the onset of which, in the doctor’s opinion was caused by my job. The time off sick started to cause issues. My boss’s prophecy proved true. After glowing appraisals and an unblemished history, life started to get very difficult at work. I was told the directors had got wind of my illness and wanted me out. I spent my last days at the company in tears, a broken man. I had no choice but to leave, before I was carried out on a stretcher. This story I witnessed in others many times while I worked there, from office staff to directors, and finally myself. To this day I continue to suffer with panic attacks, and the fibromyalgia means I struggle to work. I'm in a job now that I enjoy and am supported in, a world away from the pain of Source Bioscience, yet I still suffer from the illness caused by them. That company ruined my health, both physically and mentally. Yet they simply do not care. Another reviewer nailed it perfectly – they suck away your soul, your life, your health, before discarding the empty shell that used to be a human being. Please, please, please, pay heed to these reviews. Your health is not worth sacrificing for a job. It is simply not worth it.
