American Red Cross reviews

Everything. This is hands down the WORST job I have ever had. Keep in mind, I've worked retail, waitressing, and other "less-than-desirable" jobs, but working at Red Cross reallyyyyy takes the cake for being the worst. No work-life balance. You will be exhausted and compensated poorly. You will be treated like an idiot by trainers. If you're sick for ONE day during training, you have to start it all over... and training takes 3 months to complete. You'll be expected to drive huge trucks and buses (up to HOURS away) without the proper license because they somehow find legal loopholes around this... The medical equipment is so old and barely functioning. They hire anyone and everyone and some employees think they are actual nurses or practitioners, which is very concerning. This "organization" is so sketchy. If you're thinking about getting a job here, don't. If you've already accepted a job here, RUN.

I have worked here for a many years. this company has gone from an amazing place to work to a sinking ship. From the very top the management is terrible. I am in collections as a team supervisor. They put so much pressure on us to collect more and more and we are always short staffed. We can't keep employees because this organization does not value employees. They have changed pay practices to benefit them and not employees. They are not giving people full time hours and running blood drives short staffed. It does not seem to me that they value the donors, they value their numbers and meeting quarterly goals. Our benefits over time are being stripped. They have changed insurance, sick time benefits, withheld annual raises on some years, discontinued the pension and they are slow to promote anyone. It is a cultural of negativity and scarcity. It's never enough, you give your all and it's never enough. No recognition at all, no employee parties or any sort of employee appreciation events. Maybe it is different I'm other parts of the country but this has been my experience. I have seen them sneakily rearrange positions for certain people and then laying off people who have worked here for 20 years. They take that persons work and dump it on someone else with no pay increase. I thought I would work here forever but now I have officially decided to leave and am looking for other employment.