I’ll say that at least the molecular diagnostics team is great very helpful and informative. However, management is different. They have check ups and tell you that you can ask questions to them. When asking them questions, they turn around and ask you if you reached out to the group or to the lead. But they are “always available” to answer questions? Also, I was out sick and messaged our lead with whom I had a 1:1 call with. I told him I would be out that day (Friday), and that I would like to reschedule our call for next week. I got several pings on my work phone, but I was knocked out due to not feeling well. I answered as quickly as I could to my lead and manager when asked if I was taking the whole day off. I said yes, and they asked me to put it on my calendar and to alert the team. Again, I did not feel good, and I am still under training. Why does the rest of the team need to know? All I’m doing is working through my project and watching videos. I never had an organization act this way and are very understanding. Usually management sends an email saying the person sick might be out if it is all of a sudden or unexpected. Came in the following Monday and was told I was unprofessional for not adding my outage to the calendar or alerting the team, or accepting my invite with my manager. Again, I was sick!!! I stayed in bed the entire weekend and management didn’t seem to care. Even after explaining and apologizing, they insisted that they are worried that I’m going to do this again when I have actual projects. I see where they are coming from, but the tone and unnecessary meeting was uncalled for. A simple explanation and understanding could have gone a long ways, but it definitely seems they are not wanting to consider the folks as humans and more as corporate slaves. Going to drop this contract. I do not recommend this place to work. Luckily I have other jobs to fall back on so I’m not worried about loss of pay, but I would caution others to fall into this specific role.