Pros
Decent benefits, Incentive pay (something higher-ups won't tell you about, you have to find out on your own which is why I'm putting it here) At least in the lab, if you work more than the number of hours you were hired to work for per week, you can fill out a form to earn incentive pay on that extra time. Note: it's not the same as overtime. For example if you were hired as a 0.9 time employee (90% of full time =36hrs/week) and you keep getting scheduled to work 40+hrs a week, you can fill out a form to get incentive pay in addition to normal pay.
Cons
Administration doesn't understand the inner workings of a hospital. Mid-level managers are expected to do whatever upper management says, no questions asked. No one ever asks the "lower employees" (aka the people who are actually physically doing things in the hospital to assist in patient care) for their opinions on changes that need to be made. Every decision is made based on money and what upper management THINKS might help. Problem is, what they think helps is typically wrong because they don't know what actually goes on in the lab. Inefficient policies are constantly made and everyone is expected to follow them blindly even if it lowers the quality of patient care. Seems like administration just twiddles their thumbs making dumb policies to prove their positions are important so they don't get layed-off. You would think hospitals care more about taking care of patients, but they do the bare minimum to save a couple bucks and wait until patients are in critical conditions to actually try harder. Policies regarding legitimate reasons one is unable to make it to work (besides being sick) is non-existent. Most Geisinger locations are located in eastern PA... there is NO snow policy. If you have a FWD car and it snows, you are still expected to come in to work or you will be penalized. If your car won't start, you get penalized even if you have proof. If you have covid, employee health mandates that you stay home for X amount of days, but the days you miss come out of your PTO. With all of this being said, each department runs things differently and has different policies. I'm speaking strictly about the Laboratory Medicine Department. 1st shift in the lab at GWV is overworked, understaffed, and running way above capacity. If you want to succeed at geisinger, be buddy buddy with your boss. It's the only way they'll actually care about you. The environment is extremely catty, feels like being back in high school.
