Toxic Corporation / treats employees like human trash - Team Lead Island Health Employee Review

1.0
26 Oct 2021
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Pros

none, don't work for VIHA

Cons

10 reasons this corporation is toxic: 1. You're not compensated fairly: in a team lead, role management will expect you to do more with your working hours and even expect you to be on-call without pay. 2. Always Short staffed: why?? high turnover and very poor staff retention planning/execution. 3. Your call for help and resources are ignored: staffing crisis, no workflows, no program planning in place, poorly trained staff, rotating management, maintenance requests, WorkSafe issues. 4. They won't care if you quit or leave: they will just keep hiring and replacing staff. they don't even care if programs suffer because of this. 5.Paycheques are often inaccurate: if you need a paycheque you might get one here. It will most likely be inaccurate as the payroll department strives for a 75% accuracy rate. 6. Forced Overtime: yup that's the language they use. 7. Scheduling is often wrong: you have to track each shift and how its been scheduled. 8. Turnstile Management: much like any other position managers change hands monthly. 9. They will Lie to you: management, payroll, HR, scheduling, FMO, they will make promises and not deliver on them. 10. They do not care about you.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
12 Aug 2025
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Pros

work can be fun, nice coworkers, nice patients sometimes,sometimes state of the art equipment, beautiful town.

Cons

Benefits are awful. No paid holidays. Comes from your own vacation. No benefits first 90 days so if you relocate you have no insurance. I came from King County. GET MEDICAID. Girlfriend gave me the advice but it was too late. Anacortes extremely expensive so everyone drives in from out of town. Management very strict on policy technicalities. Hospital has a bad reputation with the local population. Ask anyone in town. CEO has a 5 million dollar house, all the C levels are millionaires (check property values Skagit Cty) while many employees are on food stamps and can’t even afford the health insurance. Not flexible with schedules, taking time off is hard bc so short staffed. Time off is looked down upon by mgmt. They will never take your side: patient complained about me and I tried explaining my side of the story and they did not want to hear it. Wasn’t even my patient!! The salary is low for the cost of living, and the hospital spends money like crazy for management salaries and surgery robots they don’t even use (seriously!). Turnover very high. People get fired all the time for unexplained reasons. My manager was amazing and was overworked and had to leave and the hospital did not care at all.

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