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Dear Patrick, I have been a production employee for American Pharmaceutical Partners, parent company to Abraxes, now for over nine years, and just in the extreme chance that you may not be aware of the information that I am about to report to you, I would like to give a brief summary of my unhappy and trying employment. Ever since the inception of American Pharmaceutical Partners in "98, the production work load has become increasingly more rigorous, not only physically but also mentally. For the past four years I have had to take antidepressants just to keep an even emotional keel, and have a somewhat normal outlook on life, I am also recieving physical therapy for degenerative skeletal conditions due to repetative and straining physical job activities. When I started the job I thought of myself as being part of something important, sombody special, touching the lives and health of hundreds of thousands of people, but now Im afraid that I'm just a generic employee, just another carbon copy worker, doing a thankless job, where the more work I do the more is expected of me. I have witnessed an unbelievable turnover rate of employees, many of whom were very good knowlegable workers and who didnt actually leave for better or higher paying jobs, but just for the fact that they didnt like the work they were expected to do, for the amount of money they were making, which incidentally, when a trained worker leaves, it puts added strain on those who are left behind. I know that I am not the only employee experiencing these conditions and feelings. I can only hope that you will investigate and change the way that employees are managed at your facilities
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