G2, the sensitivity can drop 30% over 40 consequentie injections from the same sample. It's not robust at all. And waters knows this, because they've built in a feature that tries to compensate for this by increasing detector voltage every run, on... — read more
5 million in retention bonuses to Wyatt Employees
Per company earnings report, q2 2024, Wyatt employees were paid over 5 million dollars in retention bonus. See here, page 14: https://s2.q4cdn.com/767477267/files/doc_financials/2024/q2/Waters-Q2-2024-Earnings-Call-Presentation.pdf
Creating day shift in colum packing for our colleagues from instrumentation
More hours indeed will have to be found to support this kind of volume.
Udit dancing
Udit dancing and smiling as he bags more money in his pocket while us monkeys slave away earning basic wage.
Udit dancing
Just sums up what's wrong with the company with the CEO dancing around at the start of the town hall meeting, what a spanner
Nothing to cheer about
Profits for year drop anticipation is now confirmed.dr-g development and research sales will continue to slow for remaining of year confirmed._man in the know.town hall Aug 24
55% would recommend to a friend, 50% approve of the CEO, and the overall rating is 3.4 stars on Glassdoor. These are all-time lows.
Is anyone listening?
Thinking of long term illness..think again
If it is deemed that the employee cannot return to work, and there are no alternative roles available the employee can be terminated, as per Section 6 (4) of rules concerning employee inability to perform duties they were employed to do
Cautious optimism for remainig of year?
Unfortunately this statement is contingent on how many temporary workers will be shed before Sept 1._ man in the know.
A company behaving like a fast food chain.
The brain trust and the great people have mostly departed. The work itself is okay, but the workload is often way too much for a single person. Management is generally dishonest and manipulative toward employees. Senior leaders focused on bottom line... — read more
Boston journal piece.
Milford-based Waters Corp. saw declining sales across markets in the second quarter of 2024, as the company disclosed it has scaled back its headcount in China. Sales for Waters Corp. in the second quarter were $709 million. This figure exceeded... — read more
More Layoffs
https://www.wbjournal.com/article/waters-corp-scales-back-presence-in-china-after-sales-slump
Batra goes ahead with merit award
Mr batra has backtracked on plans to suspend merit awards.this comes on yet another rubbish qtr under his stewardship.having been leaked on this forum and facing a worldwide worker revolt,batra backed down.obviously layoff.com reaches the highest... — read more
Kaizen
Enforced kaizen defeats its purpose.how can it have workers support if they are not consulted.having observed waters version of kaizen and lean all I can see is bad morale and disdain for the methods.whoever is in charge of kaizen was asleep in class... — read more
Merit award
Performance based wage increase has officially been deferred indefinitely. _man in the know.
Day shift
Long term illness payment is negatively affected by such a low salary day shift pays.i receive more on long term illness than waters pay day workers.
2nd qtr:down millions again year oy.wyatt worst aquisition deal in biotech history.
Chemistries holding their own albeit overcrowded with employees from weaker departments.
More summer layoffs in America?
Last year Udit sent out a surprise 3am email telling us that x amount of employees were laid off. I believe this happened in mid July. Being that it is now mid July, will Waters be doing more surprise layoffs? Is the reorg really going as bad as it... — read more
Under no circumstances sign a new contract for day shift only or any transfer from departments
An employer may refuse to pay out redundancy and instead find a new role for an employee within the business. In this case, if you accept a contract or re-engagement with immediate effect and the terms of this scenario are the same as your previous... — read more
Day shift only is inevitable.
As one of the beancounters mentioned I do appreciate all worker contributions over the years.i have leaked information previously about the need for single shift production.subsequently a watered down version was offered but this is a sticky plaster... — read more
Bonus > Cricket Field
In one of the more tone deaf developments that doesn’t get talked about enough and should be 100% reported in the media, is a CEO who withholds bonuses while building a Cricket field….in Massachusetts.
HR's attempts to boost Glassdoor ratings have failed, as Water’s CEO approval is a mere 52%, which is disappointing
How do you like them apples?
Ghost job postings.
Jobs for three development chemists and one senior development chemists wanted in wexford posted on waters careers page are ghost job postings.they are purposely placed to give the impression of either one or all of the following reasons 1.help is on... — read more
More cost cutting.
As part of continous restructuring and no signs of market improvement for the remaining of 2024 some manufacturing will have to move to a single shift production cycle. Source_man in the know
Waters Wexford
So many people leaving and it's alot of experience people who have been shown no loyality from waters, bad feeling in the air at the moment and may get worse, best waters have done is gave us a free dinner.
Contract development manufacturing operations.
And pharma has broken up into 3 parts. CDMOs. We think the CDMO segment will remain under pressure in China. And we've sort of said, look, that piece of the business will not recover. If anything, the volume will go for contract manufacturing into... — read more
Sustainability
The desire to become the corporation of choice using green packaging and eco buildings to manufacture in is impossible.it is their product itself that is completely impossible to make in a sustainable way. 1 in 2 will die from cancer from working... — read more
Silence on india still the policy
A major investment by waters in india doesnt even merit acknowledgment in waters wexford.so much for company alignment.to quote indian distributor hym bros via email-'we export a small quantity of colums made in ireland to china for waters.tariffs on... — read more
Wyatt and severence payments causing bonus payments postponement.
Increased Expenses and Operational Challenges: The first quarter of 2024 saw Waters Corp grappling with increased expenses, including costs associated with the Wyatt acquisition, severance-related costs from workforce reductions, and litigation... — read more
Waters corp,Birmingham.
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team on a fulltime, permanent basis at our brnad new state of the art machining facility working a double day shift (6am - 2pm & 1.45pm - 21.45pm rotating) shift with competitive basic salary plus a great... — read more
Following failure to respond from waters.here is contact details for any individuals wishing to join .
Communications Workers' Union Logo Contact Us Contact Details Communications Workers’ Union William Norton House 575-577 North Circular Road Dublin 1, D01 TR53 Email: info@cwu.ie Tel: (01) 866 3000 Fax: (01) 866 3099
Remember this: HR is fabricating reviews on Glassdoor.
They are claiming that an old negative review was fake and that the new glowing review is the actual one. It's a complete mess!
From director at waters, wilmslow, uk.
Leadership is a joke Strategy is wake up, think of an idea and roll with it No evidence gathered or checked We are employed as drowning rats to bully junior employees & not provide any direction Diversity is non existent. It’s a Caucasian driven and... — read more
Slave wages
Official operator pay_$39 per hour wexford Actual pay _$16 per hour.
Downplaying your own hplc products makes no sense.unless,
In his copy and share speech our expert plant manager was at pains to tell us of the superiority of uplc over hplc.what he failed to explain was that hplc is one of the most effective testing instruments for the crackdown on counterfeit and inferior... — read more