Pros
The pay is good. Benefits are on par with other organizations.
Cons
If you believe that health care requires accuracy and a commitment to putting out good results, if you're proud of doing a great job and contributing to the health of patients by giving reliable results, you should not work here. Your contributions will not be welcomed. Instead you will be forced to work alongside bullies who would rather spend their time starting fights and blaming their numerous mistakes on other people instead of taking responsibility for their actions, fixing their mistakes, and actually learning the job. When you point out the mistakes, you will be named as the problem, and you will have no recourse, not from your supervisor, not from your local manager, not from your regional manager. Certainly not from HR or Employee Relations. You will experience bullying and harassment from nearly the first week you work there, and your supervisor will just shrug it off. It will become increasingly obvious to you that the supervisor would much rather believe a liar and a manipulator than an employee who works hard and takes pride in turning out good results. The only incentive to do the job right will be your own sense of responsibility to the physician and to the patient, because almost every other employee can literally do whatever they like with no repercussions whatsoever. If you're feeling particularly in need of rest and relaxation, be sure to hire on an evening shift. You can cut off your patient care four hours before your shift is over and relax with a movie. And you can leave a large pile of work for the day shift, even though your literal job description is to help the day shift by covering the work that comes in on your shift. No matter, your supervisor will be sure to brush it off by saying, "oh, I'm sure they were busy", with absolutely no consideration for the day shift's observation that the last attempt to look for samples was, again, four hours before the shift ended. Hmm, I wonder if the manipulator convinced them to do that?