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American Red Cross

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Probably one of the worst jobs i have ever had - Traveling Phlebotomist American Red Cross Employee Review

2.0
17 Feb 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

got to meet different people, opportunity to grow in field, raise every 6 months, decent pay, mileage reimbursment, experience, good title on resume.

Cons

poor management that fraternizes and sleeps with some of the employees, very unproffessional workers who are loud and irrate. No flexibility with hours, the schedule leaves no room for a life outside of work. If you show up late or dont come in you get whats called an "occurence" and after a certain amount of these they fire you. They fire anyone they dont like and pretty much hire anyone. Your supposed to have a specific area to work in that is close to where you live but you will barely be in that area. Instead they will put you somewhere 3 hours out of where you live and expect you to be there on time at like 5 am. They say they reimburse your travel pay and parking costs but that takes months to get back and constant arguing with them to get it and by that time you dont even care anymore. This place is pretty much full of young "ghetto' immature people. Its like a big highschool, there are fights and gossip and if your desperate for a job than maybe take it but im said to say i wasted two years of my life here smh

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

You feel connected to a larger mission, and go to bed knowing you did good work. Most of the volunteers are amazing people. The job is a good stepping stone to other disaster management jobs elsewhere. PTO policy is generous and Healthcare is decent.

Cons

You are INCREDIBLY overworked and GROSSLY underpaid. You get zero work-life balance. Even when you're not on call, you'll still get tons of calls from volunteers with questions and concerns. If a volunteer is unavailable to respond to a fire call or tend to any other responsibility day or night, you're on deck. You're salaried, so there's no overtime pay. Your pay barely covers the basic cost of living in today's economy ($40k-$50k). Diversity is bottom heavy, meaning there are lots of employees of color in entry level or lower management roles, but beyond that there's a steep drop off. Most of the volunteers are great, but the Red Cross is so desperate to keep them, that poor behavior and language (racist/sexist/phobic) is not properly disciplined or responded to, if at all. Employee retention is poor, especially in the Disaster Specialist role, because they burn you out so quickly without decent pay.

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