No growth potential for employees. Unless you are in the UGA or Emory Univ club, it's a who you know type of party at Emory. It's such a large facility that it's hard to even know where a potential transfer location/department is. Wherever you get hired is where Emory expects you to stay forever. Yes forever. There are people with Master's degrees working entry-level. Managers will sometimes block people from potential movement (transfers and education).
There are no opportunities for networking at Emory. Even if you try to reach out and show interest, managers will still ignore you.
Low pay. They love to low ball you on salary. With an internal transfer, don't look for much of an increase. Most of them will try to get you to take a pay cut from what you've already earned! Please negotiate when you come in but I've heard that now new hires are no longer allowed to negotiate for hourly positions. Raises are a joke, pennies on the dollar.
You have to use your PTO for everything, holidays, vacation, illness, bad weather, etc. Your bank can get pretty low, pretty quick.
Lack of communication. There is a real distance between administration and the rest of staff.
There is very little employee recognition. No incentives to really improve morale or make employees feel appreciated. High turnover.
After working here, I am seriously turned off from healthcare.
