The Blood Connection reviews about "hour"

Management support is minimal, and employees are not provided with the proper tools or resources to perform effectively. Work schedules are inconsistent and frequently change without notice. Extended hours and six-day workweeks are often required with no additional compensation. The work environment discourages questions or feedback, promoting a rigid "do as you're told" mentality. Additionally, there is little consideration for time off—employees are still expected to manage their responsibilities while sick or on vacation.

Managements scheduling and communication and adding more work more mandatory hours without any pay increase or asking if new hours or arrangements are ok

OSHA and employment law broken daily, poor communication from everyone, lack of working equipment or tools to do the job, 12 hour days.

I should not have to micro-manage my own management just to get paid. I shouldn't have to come up with excuses to get necessary maintenance on my car, make life-changing medical appointments, or be present for major life events in my family. I shouldn't have to use my accrued pto to make the minimum required full-time hours I was guaranteed on hire just to pay my bills and feed those I care for. How about having you're schedule changed at almost midnight the day before with no notice or warning. Unending emails about how we mess up, we aren't good enough, we can do better, you need to remember this, not do that, how dare you, what's wrong with you, why are you so wrong, etc etc. The constant badgering to move up, up up in position to fill the gaps created by burnt out and pissed off staff who leave. Constantly having to remember names and faces of people as they come through like a conveyor line of fresh meat that may or may not make it to even 3 months before falling off the face of the planet. But don't you dare miss the chance to plug the phone number for all of them cause if they make it through training and manage to stick it out despite the red flags waving in their faces non-stop you've got to be able to reach them for all manner of information cause if we don't communicate amongst ourself half the time things won't get done. If you're not in the immediate orbit of management, if you don't volunteer your personal hours to work, if you have any opinion whatsoever that goes against the grain, then you are going to have a rough time. Work-life balance doesn't exist and good luck trying to find a new place to work while being employed here because you can't answer your phone to schedule an interview when you've got a 16-gauge needle uncapped and aimed at someone's arm while the bus shakes around you violently. Don't even get me started on actually making those interviews with your schedule changing like it's some high-stakes game of the floor is lava, but the floor is your available time to do just about anything outside the company. I could go on, but I think you get the idea.

TERRIBLE management. They will give you one directive and within the day or week, change it and write you up for not following the new directive. It's absurd and chaotic all the time. I have worked for other blood banks and this is by far the lowest on the totem pole. They don't care about their mission. They never pass on stories or motivational situations to employees for encouragement. They are just numbers and money driven. I have watched over 50 employees come and go in just one year. Just an all around toxic environment where employees are not valued at all. The employees are taken advantage of, mistreated, spoken to poorly, and then asked to do more (work longer hours, work over 12 hours, work until 10pm getting home at midnight to come to work at 6am). CDL drivers are asked to drive long distances on back roads after working long hours as a phlebotomist. It is not safe. No matter what you do, it is never enough. You can never do enough to satisfy this machine of an organization. It is very sad, because the mission should be at the forefront of every day and every action. It absolutely is buried in the hustle and obsession over numbers. They collect blood in areas where they do not support the local hospitals, especially in the Georgia areas and donors are aware of this and they just ignore the locals concerns and take the blood elsewhere.

If you're considering working for this company, run the other way. Fast. The management team offers no support, leaving employees to fend for themselves without the necessary tools or resources to do their jobs. Work schedules are a constant chaos, changing without warning, and sometimes six-day workweeks and extended hours that are of course unpaid. The environment is toxic, stifling questions and feedback, and insisting that employees simply follow orders without question. Avoid at all costs-- your sanity and career will thank you.

I did not know it for awhile but I had been sent several times to support blood drives at locations without the permission of the businesses. I was at risk of being personally fined or, worse, jailed. A few times the entire team was told to leave for trespassing. I have found myself apologizing to security personnel or to store managers. They do not disclose how much travel is involved. It will be pitched as Charleston area but due to inability to retain personnel you might be sent across state lines or, at the least, well outside of Charleston county to far away counties. Expect up to five hours on the road, in addition to working a full shift. The training is insufficient. Recruiters are literally sent out with little to no training for their role beforehand. They will not tell you during interviews but this role has a high recruitment quota and you can be required to remain at the blood drive until the quota is met. Their is this odd dress policy that actually minimally prepares you for the weather and certainly not for the physical demands of the actual job. The training video depicts blood drives with smiling people indoors at an air-conditioned and relaxed event, while you maintain a kiosk or a table. The reality: You, outside at a strip mall, either freezing or in the heat or in the rain, standing for hours relentlessly shouting for blood. They may as well have you in a character costume, holding a sign and dancing on a street corner to imaginary music.

Mgmt, work hours, schedule, short staff, etc

Management, travel a far distance, different hours