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Originally Posted by seesaw
Hi Ace,
I totally understand your concerns. Other than the reporting you've already done (it's not your job to enforce or follow up on the reports) I'd say your options are to continue to report as it occurs and maintain yourself a standard of ethics that is above reproach and/or find a new job. I would document all the reports you've made and all conversations, because regardless, you don't want to get thrown under the bus for what your supervisors are failing to take care of.
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This is pretty much what I have done. They pulled a guy from another section to help with chromatography and I felt I had to tell him what happened. He hasn't touched the instrument since then. He's not even trained in some time sensitive analyses and that make me the only one who can do them.
We had a horrible meeting with the department head a few weeks ago. They had been trying to get an expert to consult about the procedure. I thought they were lying because they didn't want anyone looking at the corrupted data. But they e-mailed someone from the EPA and asked some idiotic amateurish questions that a novice might have. That was no help at all.
Then they gave me a hard time about what I was doing. I had used a procedure that we have been doing for 9 years to get time sensitive samples run in time and the department head said it was improper. She doesn't know anything about it. I told her that what I did - extending a batch beyond 24 hours -doesn't violate any rules. They had the QA manager look it up and I was right - it doesn't violate ANY rule. Then the other QA woman said that things are changing. So now we have to anticipate future rules?? I said we are bleeding customers and if people start using other labs we get shut down. They were totally unconvinced.