Air Methods reviews

- Bullying from regional leadership is a real thing and corporate/HR is unwilling to acknowledge and instead allows it, creates a very hostile work environment for many - Too many layers of management, local management "collects" information, hands it off to corporate but aren't given real opportunity for input, corporate interprets what they want with data but have no clue what is really going on and don't ask the people that do - Too much responsibility and not compensated properly. Or some are over compensated. Pay ranges are all over and are not based on ability or experience. I would say they have unethical and discriminatory pay practices - Company does not foster a good work/life balance, it is nearly impossible. Rather than being encouraged to take your earned vacation, you are made to feel guilty or straight out ignored when emailing about time off, even for a funeral - Unethical practices all over the board, not sure if HR runs HR or if regional leadership call the shots - Irresponsible spending that are likely impacting bottom line and hinders the opportunity to pay employees properly, and quite possibly lower flight costs for patients. No accountability or proper processes in place to identify profit leaks. OT is taken advantage of and nobody is held accountable - Poor leadership. For a company with their core business being "taking care of people", they certainly do not take care of their employees. It doesn't have to be a cut throat environment, leadership MAKES it that way. It's part of their culture, and until someone in corporate is willing to recognize any of these truths about the company, nothing will ever change

No work-life balance, minimal leave, on call, management plays favorites, not a lot of room for advancement. Local management will get people into “trouble” for minor things so that you will be on your final warning and have to do everything they say or you get fired. Very manipulative and petty. They call this position a Communication Specialist, rather than a dispatcher, so the staff can’t unionize. Dispatchers have a Union and Communication Specialists do not. This is how they can require overtime, garbage shifts, on call, and basically abuse their employees as their employees have no protection. The reason for the high turnover for employees and lower level management is everything listed above. They run employees into the ground until they burn out and either quit or they fire them as they know they have gotten everything out of them they can. There is a policy for leave there that also discriminated against people who don’t have children. In a year you get enough sick leave to cover just over 1 shift. That’s calling out once in a whole year if you are sick. BUT if you have a kid you can use your vacation hours to take care of them and everyone receives much more vacation time. People with kids abuse that privilege and those without children are required to cover for them. Poor system in place.