CareGiver - Senior Caregiver Home Instead Employee Review

1.0
28 Sept 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You can work seven days a week if you really wanted to - 24 hours.

Cons

The pay is very low for the work that we do. We are under paid maids who also wipe people's butts. Clients and their families have you cleaning the moment you get there, to the moment you leave. Only time you get to stop, is when you have to make their food, shower them, or continence care (change adult diapers). You get paid minimum wage for all everything you do and hours worked. It's for the entire San Diego area, so you can be sent absolutely anywhere. If you live closer to the border or Chula Vista area they will still send you up to La Jolla if wanted, and that mileage is not reimbursed. I spend more money on gas than I do food (which I almost never have time to eat).

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Flexible hours, meeting new people and providing for a need for a loved one

Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Matched clients with same interests

Cons

Not good scheduling manager HR lied When they said $1 per mile when transporting clients, they did NOT reimburse at that rate Payroll/paystubs unclear to intentionally confuse caregivers CarePros who have been loyal to the company have been shat on with lower wages than new-hire employees. They allow clients to be racially biased and hateful towards their caregivers NO BENEFITS and things they advertise are not true! No real flexible schedule that they promote and promise in the job ads NO policy written for things that are unclear for example being on call phones are not provided and time is not paid for unless actively providing cares Management will tell lies to the families about why you don't want to be with a certain client every day of every week and will blame it on them being a difficult client when communicating to the family when in reality schedules and availability with classes does not align. Even with proper notice, the scheduling manager will have attitude and try to convince you that you are the one with the problem even though she does not care to take the time to fully understand each persons preferences or availabilities.

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