Leica Microsystems is a FUCKED Workplace

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2015-01-22 13:32:56 UTC

Post by Nomen Nescio
SO TRUE.....
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Leica-Microsystems-Reviews-E261509.htm
Pros
There are no Pros to working here; in search of new employment elsewhere
Cons
Metrics driven new managers who know nothing about the life-science products
being sold in labs
Completely unrealistic sales quotas/goals that have no connection to what is
going on in the real world
Too many broken processes/procedures/kaizens to mention; its amazing someone
turns on the lights each day
Communication with ALL management is one way; just shut-up and sell is the
message which trickles down
Management doesn't want to hear about your challenges, what customers say,
product problems, service issues
If you work here, count on base salary and 3% commission; management will promise
bonuses but you won't get them
Company pride, morale and employee motivation are at an all time LOW in my
5+ years of employment
Bean counters at several management levels are concerned with their pocketbooks
and not your pocketbook
IMO: My manager (and managers above) would steal salary/commission/bonus from
me to enhance their bottom line
Don't count on any work-life balance at Leica; you are replaceable is the message;
and with the help of Leica HR, you will conform or WE WILL FIND A WAY TO GET
RID OF YOU (including discrimination)
All Leica managers (right up into the new president's office) are Workplace
Bullies
Re-read ALL of the above BEFORE you consider working at this HELL HOLE
Advice to Management
Not even going to waste my breathe, because management is NOT listening
Nice job Peter Reimer, what's your next effing trick?

For all the reasons noted above, and many more, this is a FUCKED employer to work for short or long term! Think LONG and HARD before deciding to work for Leica or any other Danaher Corporation company. These are greedy corporate BASTARDS who want to line their pockets at the top and pass along bread crumbs to the very sales people making things happen on the streets for this company. Sales people are the only true asset this company has, but company management doesn't see it that way; you ARE replaceable! In addition, managers (if you can call them that because they don't know the first thing about leadership nor leading a team) specialize in micro-managing which creates a high stress and adversarial workplace while barking orders one way down the food chain. It is very discouraging to work here because management (Douglas Reed, Peter Reimer, Peter van den Broek, Thomas P. Joyce and H. Lawrence Culp) all the way up to the President's office spend excessive amounts of time thinking about how to TAKE AWAY salary, commission and bonuses from sales people. Management will dangle these incentives in front of sales people at the beginning of the year, but just try achieving them come year's end. They continually increase your sales quota making it more impossible in subsequent years to earn little more than salary and 1-3% commission. Management ACTIVELY contrives ways to STEAL salary, commissions and bonus from sales people and they even have set up paths to NOT pay earned sales commissions. Leica (and Danaher by default) is a truly HOSTILE place to work as they engage in discrimination (see below link). Management BULLIES at several levels DON'T want to hear about customer problems, service issues, no product training, nill to none marketing to help sales people get traction in the marketplace, sales challenges, factory quality issues, products that just don't work as advertised, premium prices for just about everything while constantly under-delivering in relation to customer expectations --- this SHIT could go on and on! Throw in internal processes and procedures THAT DON'T WORK and it is very amazing that the toilets get flushed everyday! If you crave a highly STRESSFUL workplace with no work life balance where you are micro-managed to death and constantly berated while also be hounded about completely unrealistic sales goals, then Leica is for you!

As noted previously: Re-read ALL of the above BEFORE you consider working at this HELL HOLE!!!

Discrimination is ALIVE and WELL in the Danaher workplace:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/john-taulien-specializes-in-discrimination/buffalo-grove-illinois-60089/john-taulien-specializes-in-discrimination-john-v-taulien-taulien-associates-leica-1189089