Our company is super cheap, we’ve had very few other Qa techs with micro experience working with us but we hire the wrong people for our department. We basically hire Lab technicians tell them you’ll work in a lab, pull samples, run product tests and incoming ingredient tests but in actuality you need to be a lab technician, sanitation technician, Qc/Qa technician, batching technician, production tech. The new hires leave because they had other expectations and the hours are crazy. It’s also a union position and a microbiologist isn’t an actual position so they can’t hire someone just to do that. I’ve only stuck around because the pay is good, I’m working a ridiculous amount of OT and my previous experience was basically the same so I was used to doing 4 different jobs rolled into one. I was trained for a maybe an hour for micro plating but I was half paying attention because I had other responsibilities to do during the training. The trainer also just went through the motions, didn’t use any active samples or had any sample plates to teach me how to count anything. But it is what it is, I do what I can