Vantaggi
The only Pros to this job is knowing your collecting life saving blood for patients.
Svantaggi
Company lacks company sense. Terrible schedules for donor service staff, overworked, underpaid, and understaffed. Reported thief of supplies and gifts on multiple occasions and nothing was ever done in 2 years of working there. They say they encourage going back to school and even offer tuition reimbursement but refuse to work with you even if you’re only asking for one day a week at night. Management is clueless to what actually happens on a mobile unit, once had a regional director/supervisor come on my bus during one of our busiest drives and ask me to stop what I was doing to step off the bus to talk to him. Told him it would be quite a while before I could step off, he replied was there anything he could do to help. I responded that yes he could and started to ask him to register a donor and simply start them on their questionnaire. This is one of the simplest task that we perform on a daily basis besides clocking in for work. He looked at me like he was lost in the desert and then stated that he would just stay out of the way and wait for me to get done processing donors. This is also the same man that refused to put tablets on the bus where the staff knew they would work best for donor flow. Common occurrence to work a ten hour day, clocking out at 6-7 pm and then excepted to be back to clock in at 5-6am. If you’re a CDL driver that take advantage of you and don’t even comply with DOT laws about the hour breaks in between shifts. Company spends money likes its water flowing out of the ground. I worked in a location where platelets were not drawn, but every month like clockwork we always got advertisement/punch cards for platelet only donors. Constantly stealing staff from one location to send to another location. Expect you to use your own vehicle often to travel and only covering your gas cost not the wear and tear on the vehicle. Monthly/Bimonthly reviews are performed by a supervisor that maybe sees you work once a month, and for only maybe 15-20 minutes. These reviews affect your pay raises and job advancement. As a Team leader I was expected to supervise and discipline staff that made more money than myself and didn’t respect me because OneBlood refuses to empower the team leaders. If I was to leave for PTO for a week I would return to a bus that looked like a bomb had gone off and the supplies drained to the bare minimum and no one had bothered to order supplies. Under my supervision I had employees that had been there for 10 plus years and had to treat them like a children to get them to work. Neither looked to advance both stated weekly that they were only there to clock in and clock out. Overall the laziest workers are rewarded and the hard workers leave and move on to better jobs. Many more problems but it would take days to get it all documented.