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In the last decade, the culture at National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Canada’s highest security lab and the country’s only Biosafety Level 4 facility authorized to handle such deadly pathogens as Ebola, has become hostile, NML staff members tell the Winnipeg Free Press. Based on interviews with numerous employees, the Press describes that after a changeover in management in the bacterial-testing division in 2010, the already high-pressure environment became tyrannical. While they had previously been allowed to follow flexible schedules, now arriving back from lunch a few minutes late could result in a visit from a superior, the staff members say.
“I found them to be bullies; they were like high-school mean girls,” Amanda Everton, a researcher in the division until 2014, tells the newspaper, referring to the new management.
“The sad thing is, they do world-class science, but internally they’re almost self-destructing, in terms of ...
