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Fine pay, bad work/life balance - Technician II%2C Collections American Red Cross Employee Review

3.0
Feb 4, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

You get to do good work that helps people! Good pay for the position Getting promoted to Power Red and Charge is easy, it just takes some time

Cons

Atrociously long hours sometimes, some days are as short as 6 hours, some are 14 You're going to drive. A lot. Expect to commute over an hour sometimes. Your schedule will always fluctuate day-to-day. You might wake up at 5 am one day after having worked until 8 pm the day before. Your schedule will change even just hours before you're scheduled to work. Getting PTO approved is hit or miss, and mostly miss.

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Pros

Great humanitarian mission, non profit

Cons

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1.0
Jul 6, 2026
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Pros

- decent health insurance - helping people feels good. - depending on your chapter you can get good, flexible time - some volunteers are legit saints

Cons

- everyone on the inside doesn’t think things will meaningfully change, it’s systemic. - leadership is often out of touch in expectations and demands, while provide verbal support (at best), chronic understaffing, and focusing on what looks good (to media, PR, etc.). - turnover is extreme - on call is 24/7, volunteer capacity is dwindling especially in rural areas, we have to fill in the gaps, as a result you will be trapped in your area and cannot be good at your actual job. - the non-saint volunteers will treat you horribly, god forbid if you are a woman in this position, there’s a de-facto no firing policy on volunteers - pay is so bad is borders on funny, they gave me a raise this year for ‘merit,’ it was $750…for the year. My boss even laughed when telling me. - it’s a culture of management not leadership, so do not expect either honesty or accountability

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