[Nepeta]

They hired a button pusher not an analyst. They should have (and maybe did) have an analyst around too, but analysts costs more than button pushers and you don’t want them pushing buttons any GED holder could push.

By the time someone who knows what they are doing catches up with a button-pusher's work, the quantity of results that have been released can be amazing. I've reviewed work that had to have been invalid for years because the person doing the work didn't recognize a problem. I came upon one outfit that had not run a standard for about three years--and by that time not only was their quantitation off, they were misidentifying analytes. Sloppy, and all too common.

[discostu]

Sounds like lowest bidder problems. The company isn’t charging enough for the work so it wouldn’t be profitable to hire the people who should be doing the work.