1. HELPING CHEMISTS FIND JOBS IN A TOUGH MARKET. 2. TOWARDS A QUANTITATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE QUALITY OF THE CHEMISTRY JOB MARKET.
What's the job market like for chemists? Dude -- it's always bad.*
How bad is it? How the heck should I know? Quantifying the chemistry job market is what this blog is about. That, and helping chemists find jobs.
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They could have saved some money by using someone else's labcoats, rather than buying brand-new ones.
ReplyDeletePerhaps they just wanted clean lab coats for the picture rather than dingy, used ones.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it was their lab coats, they've just never warn them before, and will never again.
ReplyDeletePerhaps so.
Delete(My experience with the Blue Pill Factory is that they'd bring in the higher-ups for lab tours and make them put on PPE/disposable lab coats that were made from paper/plastic. You could tell because you could see through the lab coats, and you could see the creases.)
Good thing one of them is wearing nitrile gloves.....
ReplyDeleteI still recall working for a particularly arrogantly managed biotech, 100 years of management experience!, (that ended up going kaput after I left) and whenever investors were scheduled to come in on a tour the CEO would email everyone in the co telling them to be at their lab benches working busily. I found that amusing.
I like the paragraph:
ReplyDelete"On Aug. 28, Kapadia and a subordinate boarded a red-eye flight to Detroit. Meeting the next day at GM’s offices in the Detroit suburb of Warren, they confronted a “visibly and justifiably angry” Joshua and Nitz, according to Kapadia. Kapadia tried to appeal to their sense of decency. Envia had committed mistakes but the two companies should try “to mitigate the employment and immigration risk on the hard-working scientists at Envia who were likely to be adversely affected” if the startup collapsed, Kapadia argued."
H1B factory?
At least they viewed their employees as human beings. That's more than I can say about the senior management at most companies.
DeleteI don't think I've ever seen anybody who actually works in lab that wears a tie while doing it...
ReplyDeleteWell, at least they are wearing PPE. Lab coat, safety glass, gloves. Nice.
ReplyDeletePeople that work at my company who started in late 70s early 80s said wearing a tie to work used to be required.