I faced the following stressful and unexpected work environment and tried to accommodate , triggered to mental illness.
Appointment interview taken by Director QC and HR, reporting was suppose to be QC director but appointment letter was issued with reporting to manager not even witness the interview, letter was signed by Director for manager on behalf of the reporting manager
Joining is done through Senior Chemist not by reporting manager. Reporting manager appeared face to face after a week of joining after my repeated request to see the reporting manager.
Practical training was given by junior chemist did not belong to QC Development ( my department), despite of availability of Senior Chemist of my department. Senior Chemist with sarcastically make fun of the situation
Very strange and stressful situation for any scientific environment with start.
No project assigned for a while and moved to cleaning validation, despite of my no experience to cleaning validation and instructed to assist the cleaning validation chemist.
Training record was signed off after, project already started, against the Good manufacturing practices in Pharma industry.
After a month, initial reporting manager was replaced by new inexperienced reporting manager internally from other department.
New reporting manger only ask for task start and complete ( time line management without experience), where as initial reporting manager could only coordinate for technical aspects, because second one has no experience. First reporting manager designated as scientific advisor.
Very strange and stressful situation for any scientific environment.
New reporting manager had hired my colleague (less experienced than me) of previous company as Senior Chemist, where as there was no discussion in my interview about the existence of senior chemist.New reporting manager instructed me to report to new senior chemist.
Another strange and stressful situation.
After some time, director discontinue his job and new director replaced the first one and just after that, new reporting manager also discontinue the job. Now new director became the administrative manager along with initial manager ( scientific advisor).Again new director has superficial experience of the technical work.
Again kind of reporting two person administratively and technically.
My 6 month probation period passed without review, which is suppose to be done in-order to have some track for me to move forward to meet the expectations.
My yearly review was marked not meeting expectation, by the time 2nd Manager joined, but performance evaluated by initial manager ( scientific advisor).
Basically it was chaos of management system within a year.
During this period I have been assigned a project, I desperately work for it even fire in lab and used multiple computers within same day borrowed from different chemists. it was with the coordination of QC director and scientific advisor ( initial manager). At the time for protocol approval I have written the protocol to execute the experiments. Shockingly new 2nd Manager informed me that director rejected the protocol, my whole year got wasted, I have not even told the reason of rejection.
It was frustrating and stressful outcome for me.
Manager 2 was ok in terms of planning and coordination I was expecting better situation, but he also moved to another organization in a year of time.During this time, I requested 2nd manager to move to 2nd lab, because 2nd lab was good in terms of ventilation and resources. I need more ventilated environment due to my sleep apnea condition. He moved me to second lab.
Again director became administrative manager and Scientific advisor as technical manager.
My feeling was technical manager prevented to be as a full working manager.
It was again frustrating and stressful situation, riding 2 boats at the same time.
Person knows subject matter not allowed to plan, and planner have superficial idea of subject matter. Ultimately whole work was unofficially shifted to technical manager, because director was busy in other obligations of QC lab and also superficial exposure to QC Development.
After that 3rd Manager was appointed, 3 manager higher within June 2015 to January 2017.
He was totally unpredictable and unrealistic. He started asking the progress of work without even introducing himself. He was expecting the work finished before it start, he created unrealistic time line and pressurized , he want to finished the work even compromising the scientific relevance.
He was so intimidating and harassing and repeated the 3to 4 time enquiry about the work at the same time, like call, in person and close door.
Third manager also forcefully move me back to old lab, despite of my request about my sleep apnea situation as old lab was suffocating for me due to poor ventilation for GC ( no exhaust for each GC to escape the residual solvents of experiment).
In this old lab, an old computer was given to me, operated by so many people of different departments, lots of interference and disturbances. I requested 3rd manger for individual computer like other colleagues but no help.
In June 2017, I have applied internally to pharmaceutical regulatory affairs based on my professional PG diploma for Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs.
This is another setback, person selected for the position has no diploma for RA.
I again did not met the performance, performance evaluation was done by Director rarely visible in lab and did not consult the technical manger, who was actually planning and looking after my work on daily basis.I was disagree to this performance evaluation, HR never initiated any discussion about it and close it.
Later on enormous followup, intimidation and disrespectful work environment by manager 3 triggered the never ending anxiety situation resulted sleepless nights, scary nightmares and hopelessness.
I am still on anxiety and depression situation, which was further aggravated by the frustrated contract by the employer.
HR disregarded my doctor,s note in response to my frustrated contract .