I was a Phlebotomist and it was the worst job I ever had. If I could give this a zero star rating, I would have. - Phlebotomist CSL Plasma Employee Review

1.0
26 Jan 2016
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Pros

Great for 18-25 year olds who are just starting out and looking for basic...VERY basic phlebotomy skills. I really have no other pros, but need a 20 word minimum for this field.

Cons

Management sucks. Plain and simple. It's favoritism and cliques are similar to high school. Donors treat you with very little respect and management does absolutely nothing about it. Some donors come in with foul body odor, dirty fingernails and their clothes are not clean. They appear to be homeless. How these donors make it past screening, I don't know. A certified phlebotomist walks in at an hourly pay of $9.76 per hour, sometimes even less than that. The "closing" hours will have you guessing what time you will even get home.

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5.0
25 May 2026
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Pros

Stability, job advancement, opportunity, and benefits

Cons

Don’t really have anything to complain about.

2.0
6 Jul 2026
Recommend
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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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