u/Responsible_Bend_524

Hi! Does anyone have any tips to get your foot in the door at Bbraun (Bethlehem headquarters), non-manufacturing site?

I live across the street from their building and my background is medical device; I’ve applied to a few roles, but nothing panned out.

Any insights?

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I have an environmental science degree and a one year experience as an ecologist assistant at a environmental consulting firm back in 2015.

I have since worked in big Pharma doing contracts and full-time with a big pharma group. My experience is pretty good professionally wise.

However, I was just laid off two weeks ago and realized that I should probably follow my dream path, which is to be an ecologist. Since I’ve worked in wetlands, I would say probably a wetland ecologist. But I’m open to other areas as well.

I had a hard time landing a position after my internship and this is why I went the route that I went because I needed to get a job. I really get confused and lost on how to land a role in this area without being so letdown. All I have is a bachelors degree and I don’t see myself getting a masters anytime soon.

I do have unemployment and I have a couple months to figure this out, but I really truly would love to get into this field and I am looking for the best tips and suggestions that you can offer. Obviously I’ll be taking a pay decrease from what I’m used to and that is OK.

I’m really passionate about ecology and this field and I had so many hopes and dreams, but I ultimately just found myself following a different path and I truly regret that.

I was with my company remotely for 4 years and honestly the entire situation ended in a way that feels incredibly unfair and traumatizing.

Things started going downhill in 2024 when we got a new manager. She had a really nasty management style — unrealistic expectations, constant pressure, disrespectful attitude, and overall just created a toxic environment. Around the same time, it ended up mostly being just me and one coworker on the team because so many people kept leaving.

That coworker was extremely territorial and competitive. She never wanted anyone to outperform her and would gatekeep work and opportunities. It became very obvious that people who threatened her position were pushed down.

The stress got so bad that I eventually had to go on FMLA for mental health reasons. The very first time I even tried to use a few hours of FMLA, my coworker guilt-tripped me and made it difficult. I reported both her and my manager to HR for bullying and issues surrounding my FMLA treatment. Nothing came of it.

Shortly after that complaint, I was suddenly placed on a PIP in early 2025.

I actually passed the PIP, and for a while things seemed calmer. But looking back now, I think they had already decided to push me out. They quietly restructured work assignments and slowly removed a large portion of my workload without really explaining why.

Later in 2025 we got another manager who was new to the department. At first things seemed totally fine with her. Then in early 2026 her demeanor toward me completely changed. During my performance review, she and her boss gave me an unexpectedly negative review filled with exaggerated or inaccurate criticisms that honestly didn’t even match my actual role expectations.

I immediately went to HR because I felt blindsided. Even HR seemed surprised, but again, nothing really happened.

Meanwhile my workload stayed extremely uneven. I repeatedly asked management to redistribute work more fairly because I barely had assignments compared to others, but they ignored me.

Then a couple weeks ago, my coworker basically tried assigning me an entirely new job function without any discussion. I scheduled another meeting with HR because I felt something was seriously wrong.

HR moved the meeting to Monday, added upper management to the invite, and when I joined the call they terminated me for “performance issues.”

It honestly felt completely calculated.

What hurts even more is they sent an email announcing my termination to multiple teams. In all my years there, nobody else had been fired like that. It was humiliating.

I genuinely tried to succeed there. But between toxic management, favoritism, retaliation after complaints, workload manipulation, and constantly being undermined, it feels like they slowly built a paper trail to get rid of me.

Now I’m left feeling really traumatized by corporate environments in general. I keep wondering if this was retaliation or if any of this was even legal. I’ve never felt so disposable in my life.

I was with my company remotely for 4 years and honestly the entire situation ended in a way that feels incredibly unfair and traumatizing.

Things were really good with my small team up until management change and Things started going downhill in 2024 when we got a new manager. She had a really nasty management style — unrealistic expectations, constant pressure, disrespectful attitude, and overall just created a toxic environment. Around the same time, it ended up mostly being just me and one coworker on the team because so many people kept leaving.

That coworker was extremely territorial and competitive. She never wanted anyone to outperform her and would gatekeep work and opportunities. It became very obvious that people who threatened her position were pushed down. She also prevented me from being invited to any work meetings when the entire team would come to my city. So the large group from Europe and all over the country would come to my city and I would never get an invite.

The stress got so bad that I eventually had to go on FMLA for mental health reasons. The very first time I even tried to use a few hours of FMLA, my coworker guilt-tripped me and made it difficult. I reported both her and my manager to HR for bullying and issues surrounding my FMLA treatment. Nothing came of it.

Shortly after that complaint, I was suddenly placed on a PIP in early 2025.

I actually passed the PIP, and for a while things seemed calmer. But looking back now, I think they had already decided to push me out. They quietly restructured work assignments and slowly removed a large portion of my workload without really explaining why.

Later in 2025 we got another manager who was new to the department. At first things seemed totally fine with her. Then in early 2026 her demeanor toward me completely changed. During my performance review, she and her boss gave me an unexpectedly negative review filled with exaggerated or inaccurate criticisms that honestly didn’t even match my actual role expectations.

I immediately went to HR because I felt blindsided. Even HR seemed surprised, but again, nothing really happened.

Meanwhile my workload stayed extremely uneven. I repeatedly asked management to redistribute work more fairly because I barely had assignments compared to others, but they ignored me.

Then a couple weeks ago, my coworker basically tried assigning me an entirely new job function without any discussion. I scheduled another meeting with HR because I felt something was seriously wrong.

HR moved the meeting to Monday, added upper management to the invite, and when I joined the call they terminated me for “performance issues.”

It honestly felt completely calculated.

What hurts even more is they sent an email announcing my termination to multiple teams. In all my years there, nobody else had been fired like that. It was humiliating.

I genuinely tried to succeed there. But between toxic management, favoritism, retaliation after complaints, workload manipulation, and constantly being undermined, it feels like they slowly built a paper trail to get rid of me.

Now I’m left feeling really traumatized by corporate environments in general. I keep wondering if this was retaliation or if any of this was even legal. I’ve never felt so disposable in my life.

She won, i was terminated last week. All of the retaliation began after i made a complaint in 2024. I work in a major pharma group and they were so strategic on this. But maybe it’s for the better in the end because she makes it impossible for anyone to advance in that career/group.

I was terminated from my five-year role with a major pharmaceutical company two weeks ago unexpected but they were decreasing my workload significantly and hiring new people in my group. They gave me a poor yearly review with a lot of reaching points that really didn’t make a whole lot of sense, but they stuck to their point and lower view so they based my termination on that. But I have a history of making a complaint on my former coworker and former boss at that time for bullying/not allow allowing me to take FMLA. And I was put on a pip immediately after my complaints were made. I reached out to a employment lawyer last week and they said that I have a solid case and to move forward with it, but my sister who works in HR for a major company said to go through the EEOC.

I told her I’m not sure I’m reading that it could take a while through them and like a lot of people don’t have success with going through the EEOC.

Thoughts?

I was with my company for 5 years (remote). The group i was with went through a management change year 3. The new manager was brutal, and we lost 2 coworkers quick because of how horrible she was. It was so bad, i ended up with a nervous breakdown and had to go to the hospital multiple times. My doctor put me on FMLA, which i didn’t really take because my coworker made me feel bad. I ended up reporting my boss for a few things. After that she put me on a PIP. Which i did well, it didn’t seem like she wanted to fire me but see my succeed. She was removed and we got another new manager late 2025. I was told I’m doing fine. Come this spring, i got a bad review and they took my work away. I was fired this Monday for setting up a meeting with HR to discuss my imbalance workload. No real reason, just made up stuff that they didn’t have anything to back up. Theres a lot of other important stuff in-between that might help my case.

It does seem like retaliation but they took their time with it.

Is this worth a case?

I was terminated last week with no cause other than they said I’m not meeting expectations but i think this is because i reported my former boss at one point and coworker for bullying. He put me on a pip immediately, i passed the pip and was doing fine but they gave me a bad review with points that didn’t make sense, didn’t add up and gave me a reduced workload and that was the main cause for a bad review. HR didn’t help me.

Everyone is saying it’s retaliation but i wouldn’t know where to begin.

Note: major pharma company.

No goodbye and goodluck, just this.

I know this is a long shot but was wondering if a part time or fulltime remote project manager roles exist in this field.

I have an environmental degree plus some ecological field work experience (ten years ago) but have been in the big pharma fields since.

I always wish i could apply my current role(PM) in my degree but I’m 40 now and i really don’t see myself being able to handle field work like i used to.

Any insight or direction?