Pros
The people you work with are alright. I don't like being micro managed in the core and on night shift you aren't. The pay and benefits are nice. The on site clinic and physical therapist are a big plus.
Cons
The administration does not care about the techs at all. We are in the dark about many changes until they happen. Sometimes I think the administration themselves don't know what they are doing that's why they choose not to communicate with us. We do not get recognized for our hard work in the core only the office workers get all the praises. We get reprimanded for wanting our full 40 hours and are babysat by our clock out or clock in punches. They took away the merit based tech raises and now base our raises on how much you are trained in a "swim lane". The swim lanes don't work because we feel like it is a popularity contest and only a select people get trained. When equipment breaks or rooms are down they take forever to fix so I feel like they don't care about our safety at all; especially when we have donors with no serologies and are still forced to work on them. Oh and the communication between shifts is horrible night shift never starts on time and again nothing gets communicated to us about anything. Talking to people on day shift and weekends really made me realize that.
