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American Red Cross

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This company values its status quo over its employees - Manufacturing Technician American Red Cross Employee Review

1.0
Mar 18, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The best thing about working there was the majority of co-workers. They were the only reason why I wanted to continue working there. I could always count on them to be supportive and helpful.

Cons

Don’t let the humanitarian language or non-profit label fool you. This is a company. It is run like a company. You are replaceable. The quality and merit of your work isn’t rewarded. People are given opportunities based on favoritism and convenience to upper management. They gave a management position to someone who publicly and unprofessionally harassed other workers on numerous occasions. That should give you an idea of the type of people they're willing to promote. There is prominent toxic favoritism. There are individuals that receive a troublesome amount of second-chances compared to others. There are those that are allowed to get away with certain things compared to others. People are targeted or harassed more than others seemingly on a whim. The company will then tell you to forgive and forget, or to move on. Even if you objectively have no justifiable reason to do so. New ideas in optimizing and innovating workflow or general work standards are mostly ignored. Every location needs to be set up the same way. If an issue arises at a location that does something different. It will be blamed as the reason for the issue, even if it had nothing to do with it. If you are an individual that is consistent at the high quality of their work, you will be taken for granted. They'll convince you that you are important and needed so they can get more work out of you. Your time is better spent somewhere better.

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5.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

Great humanitarian mission, non profit

Cons

None, great place to work

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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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