Hard work, long hours, low pay but good experience in medical facility for entry level employees right out of college - Receptionist Tech CSL Plasma Employee Review

2.0
Jan 9, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

It is a very dynamic environment with lots to learn and practice that knowledge. You will be doing a job asap after training, especially if management really needs you, and positions are always available out there. Young stuff, maybe fun place. Strick regulations to follow and avoid mistakes, ANY! Might get fired on the spot if done something wrong. I put almost 3 years there and for me it was OK experience with lots to learn and overcoming myself. Treat this job very serious as it involves saving people lives and collecting good plasma from healthy people is vital. No shortcuts. Benefits are ok so is the team spirit! Be prepared to depend on each other since cross training is inevitable.

Cons

Favoritism, low pay for amount of work you do, and management who either like you or not. If not, you are in trouble! Donors maybe rude and under influence and you gotta be able to stand up for yourself as an employee. Sometimes low moral at work place. Have to work a long time and very hard to get a decent promotion. Long hours with over pay if full-time, but lots of stress since amount of donors and employees may not be balanced well.

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Cons

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Pros

I made a lot of friends there, and the employees on the floor were almost always very hard workers

Cons

The higher up in leadership you go the less you actually seem to care for the people actually doing the hardest work on the floor. The donors are often mean and impatient. And don't get kicked out if they are repeatedly an issue on the floor, because that's a loss of plasma. Many centers won't kick out anyone with veins that aren't suitable to be stuck. It's often up to the donor to walk out with two blown veins to decide not to come back.

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