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American Red Cross

Is this your company?

Once a Wonderful Organization. Nationalized into Mediocrity. - Anonymous employee American Red Cross Employee Review

2.0
Oct 30, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The ideals of the organization still resonate

Cons

Since Gail McGovern has become CEO, the Red Cross has adopted the AT&T model of management. Decisions are no longer locally based, but decided by a select few who manage to screw things up. We have seen this in response to disaster services (i.e. Hurricane Sandy), Health and Safety, and Blood Services. Now, the employees left are being set up for failure.

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Cons

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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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