Arup Laboratories Reviews

Company culture encourages and rewards harassment and bullies. I was sexually harassed by a co-worker, who eventually left the company and was later rehired! They're so desperate for MLTs that they overlook inappropriate behavior. A trainer in the department tried to exploit power over myself and others to complete training assignments that he made up on his own; not company training material, just a word .doc he'd made up to make other people do to exploit his power over them. I refused to do what he asked and he treated me poorly after that, when before he had been nice. I let management know about the incident and nothing was done. The same coworker called out sick using family and childcare as an excuse and then posted on social media about going hiking (ended up breaking an arm and unable to work) and was never reprimanded. The same coworker treated most female coworkers poorly as well. He and a group of others in the lab openly excluded others who weren't Mormon or male. A co-worker in the department was continually harassed, made fun of openly to their face, and demeaned by others, and management turned a blind eye. The workplace encourages and does not punish group bullying tactics such as exclusion, gossip, and ignoring. All of the managers are extremely passive aggressive. Don't bother calling people out when they display inappropriate behavior at this company, because you'll get labeled as bad at working in a team; this means you're essentially blacklisted from getting rehired there through the way their performance review process works.

I do not recommend working here as a specimen processor. I dread going to work every single day and am actively looking for something elsewhere. The pay is incredibly low for the amount of work you do and the stress the job creates. You can do the job thousands of times correctly, then if you make one mistake you are talked down to like you are a five year old. God help you if you make 2 or more mistakes in a month. Pretty much anyone with more authority than you will be condescening to you for no discernable reason. I assume its the culture. Everyone I work with or have met has at least one family member working there, but most have multiple family members which is weird. They have a lot of forced overtime, which burns people out which will probably make you make a mistake and get talked down to. The person who interviewed me for this position understood I wanted a technical position and told me it would be a great way to see all the different labs because working in Specimen Receiving interacts with them so much. This was blatently a lie as the job consists of sitting for 10 hours at a desk only getting to leave for a 30 minute lunch and a 30 minute break. I guess I get to see the doors to the labs as I pass them in the hallway. The company claims its a positive that they have so many different shifts to choose from, its too bad that none of them are actually good for a healthy work/life balance. I guess there are a few but the people working them will never quit so dont expect to get a shift thats good.