Pros
As someone who has been working in healthcare or pharm manufacturing for over 10 years, here are the honest perks- OPI will hire anyone. Need a start or bounceback? Come here. On the job training and cross training available, with a strong desire to hire upward from within. Intelligence and dedication will get you a career here, even if you never thought that possible before. Physical mobility from site to site is possible. More flexible attendance policy than average. Decent benefits. I haven't seen many healthcare plans with this quality of service for this price. We have a very proud number of ex-military, EMT, and firefighters at our site, but we aren't jingoistic about it. There's less of the typical stigma about mental illness or older employees. We also offer people flexibility regarding personal issues. There's plenty of work to be done, we will find you somewhere that won't send you into a panic attack or offer you a bit of support when your new meds are making you a little out of it. You have to still be able to work, though.
Cons
Their low standards for hiring translate to some useless co-employees with bad attitudes. These same standards apply to donors. Expect to be cursed at, threatened, and feel unsafe at work. A donor who threatened to shoot up our center wasn't even deferred. Low pay given experience and education. People with bachelors in hard sciences are paid the same amount for local warehouse workers. HPD is suppressed to the point that it cuts off growth potential. Corporate dictates HPD be .75, when in reality management keeps it .55-.72 to save money. Employees have no direct access to HR or any corporate phone line. OPI corporate communications say we have an internal, corporate whistleblower line and we don't. There's some serious cognitive dissonance between what OPI says they do and the actual practices. I don't know how some people function, they must be ignoring the alarms from their morals and conscience going nuts in their heads in order to keep doing some of this stuff.