Waters Wexford has become a dark, bleak, dreary place now, roll back a few years and it was at its prime but management has let it slip downhill ever since the axe man came on seen and udit, management needs to grow a pair and some need to go cause... — read more
Congratulations
Congratulations to our longest serving employee on your promotion.shame they made you wait 27 years!!!!!!
After long battle.
Some good news from canteen radio.those remaining after layoffs and currently not receiving equal pay of their peers will be reimbursed.they are attempting to offset cost by offering day work and saving shift allowance.nonetheless operator pay will... — read more
Future
Moderna cutting back and the albatross of an acquisition at plus 10x forward earnings plus loss of key LT seems to be more than headwinds. How much trouble are we in here? Dollar general of analytical tools type trouble?
Obvious reason to manufacture wherever your largest customer base is.
As a reminder, the OECD Inclusive Framework's Pillar Two model rules are designed to ensure that large multinational groups (with annual consolidated group revenue of at least €750 million) pay a minimum effective tax rate of 15% on their profits in... — read more
Performance pay
Has the performance pay been implemented as promised?
Waters uk
Official opening of waters corp new facility in Birmingham first week october.
What is better
udits dancing the living wall waters unwritten
Days only
Waters_do yez have anyone to work day shift Dole office_how much you paying Waters _240 on top of dole Dole office_must be week on week off is it Waters_nope full time Dole office_you must be joking,our lads rather go up the rocks with a bag a cans — read more
32% CEO approval rating out of HQ
According to Glassdoor, Milford reviews show only a 32% approval rating for Udit. How does this compare to past CEO’s and does anyone think anything will be done concerning a replacement?
Why is Batra dancing?
https://www1.salary.com/Udit-Batra-Ph-D-Salary-Bonus-Stock-Options-for-WATERS-CORP.html
Waters connect is a mess and on a
G2, the sensitivity can drop 30% over 40 consequentie injections from the same sample. It's not robust at all. And waters knows this, because they've built in a feature that tries to compensate for this by increasing detector voltage every run, on... — read more
5 million in retention bonuses to Wyatt Employees
Per company earnings report, q2 2024, Wyatt employees were paid over 5 million dollars in retention bonus. See here, page 14: https://s2.q4cdn.com/767477267/files/doc_financials/2024/q2/Waters-Q2-2024-Earnings-Call-Presentation.pdf
Creating day shift in colum packing for our colleagues from instrumentation
More hours indeed will have to be found to support this kind of volume.
Udit dancing
Udit dancing and smiling as he bags more money in his pocket while us monkeys slave away earning basic wage.
Udit dancing
Just sums up what's wrong with the company with the CEO dancing around at the start of the town hall meeting, what a spanner
Nothing to cheer about
Profits for year drop anticipation is now confirmed.dr-g development and research sales will continue to slow for remaining of year confirmed._man in the know.town hall Aug 24
55% would recommend to a friend, 50% approve of the CEO, and the overall rating is 3.4 stars on Glassdoor. These are all-time lows.
Is anyone listening?
Thinking of long term illness..think again
If it is deemed that the employee cannot return to work, and there are no alternative roles available the employee can be terminated, as per Section 6 (4) of rules concerning employee inability to perform duties they were employed to do
Cautious optimism for remainig of year?
Unfortunately this statement is contingent on how many temporary workers will be shed before Sept 1._ man in the know.
A company behaving like a fast food chain.
The brain trust and the great people have mostly departed. The work itself is okay, but the workload is often way too much for a single person. Management is generally dishonest and manipulative toward employees. Senior leaders focused on bottom line... — read more
Boston journal piece.
Milford-based Waters Corp. saw declining sales across markets in the second quarter of 2024, as the company disclosed it has scaled back its headcount in China. Sales for Waters Corp. in the second quarter were $709 million. This figure exceeded... — read more
More Layoffs
https://www.wbjournal.com/article/waters-corp-scales-back-presence-in-china-after-sales-slump
Batra goes ahead with merit award
Mr batra has backtracked on plans to suspend merit awards.this comes on yet another rubbish qtr under his stewardship.having been leaked on this forum and facing a worldwide worker revolt,batra backed down.obviously layoff.com reaches the highest... — read more
Kaizen
Enforced kaizen defeats its purpose.how can it have workers support if they are not consulted.having observed waters version of kaizen and lean all I can see is bad morale and disdain for the methods.whoever is in charge of kaizen was asleep in class... — read more
Merit award
Performance based wage increase has officially been deferred indefinitely. _man in the know.
Day shift
Long term illness payment is negatively affected by such a low salary day shift pays.i receive more on long term illness than waters pay day workers.
2nd qtr:down millions again year oy.wyatt worst aquisition deal in biotech history.
Chemistries holding their own albeit overcrowded with employees from weaker departments.
More summer layoffs in America?
Last year Udit sent out a surprise 3am email telling us that x amount of employees were laid off. I believe this happened in mid July. Being that it is now mid July, will Waters be doing more surprise layoffs? Is the reorg really going as bad as it... — read more
Under no circumstances sign a new contract for day shift only or any transfer from departments
An employer may refuse to pay out redundancy and instead find a new role for an employee within the business. In this case, if you accept a contract or re-engagement with immediate effect and the terms of this scenario are the same as your previous... — read more
Day shift only is inevitable.
As one of the beancounters mentioned I do appreciate all worker contributions over the years.i have leaked information previously about the need for single shift production.subsequently a watered down version was offered but this is a sticky plaster... — read more