Awwww, to be naive and idealistic. That is what I thought!! I have worked for the big corps, and yes they are evil but then they don't pretend to be anything else. They are out for the money, period. I thought ok I will endeavor to work for the greater good being a programmer at a cancer research center in the NW. OMG, what an eye opener that was. Worked there for over four years. Guess what, researchers only care about money!! They will do anything and everything to get and keep their grants. Backstabbing other reseachers is the norm, they might get the grant instead of me. And I mean anything. I went to upper management to complain about a researcher fabricating data, two days later I was told I no longer had a job. Another very attractive lady complained the researchers was grouping her. She complained to upper management. She was axed!! Turned out the reseacher had multi-million grant, protect the $$$. I ran into her after she was fired. I was still working there. I told if she wanted to take them to court I would be glad to testify in her behalf. She said she just wanted to be away from the hell hole. And it gets worse. Lying to patients about treatments that got them killed. IT WAS AND REMAINS THE EVILEST PLACE I HAVE EVER WORKED!! Sure the are some good researchers but there are a hell of lot of the kind above in comparison. It's really sad. The major disappointment of my career.
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Awwww, to be naive and idealistic. That is what I thought!! I have worked for the big corps, and yes they are evil but then they don't pretend to be anything else. They are out for the money, period. I thought ok I will endeavor to work for the greater good being a programmer at a cancer research center in the NW. OMG, what an eye opener that was. Worked there for over four years. Guess what, researchers only care about money!! They will do anything and everything to get and keep their grants. Backstabbing other reseachers is the norm, they might get the grant instead of me. And I mean anything. I went to upper management to complain about a researcher fabricating data, two days later I was told I no longer had a job. Another very attractive lady complained the researchers was grouping her. She complained to upper management. She was axed!! Turned out the reseacher had multi-million grant, protect the $$$. I ran into her after she was fired. I was still working there. I told if she wanted to take them to court I would be glad to testify in her behalf. She said she just wanted to be away from the hell hole. And it gets worse. Lying to patients about treatments that got them killed. IT WAS AND REMAINS THE EVILEST PLACE I HAVE EVER WORKED!! Sure the are some good researchers but there are a hell of lot of the kind above in comparison. It's really sad. The major disappointment of my career.