Pros
Health benefits, opportunity for overtime
Cons
The company keeps promoting within. It's all about favoritism, no real management or skill set is considered to move up the ladder. The training department is non-existent once they train you to step into the Core. You receive processing training from regular employees, who while are very helpful, are not following or sometimes not even aware of the SOP's for the tasks they are showing you. You need nothing more than a High school diploma to earn a job within processing. While that might be OK for some, it's difficult when you have a college, professional, or industry background. It's because of these standards, that the managers treat their staff like they're high school students, and not like adult employees. While MTF shouts out their mission, and pushes for organ/tissue donation, their staff in the core- who handle the donated tissue- have very little to no understanding of how the tissue came to be, or the importance of treating the tissues with respect. There is a serious lack of medical and donation knowledge within the processing departments. Many of the managers, act very unprofessional. They lack proper, professional communication with their staff. They try to act like "one of the gang" one day, and the next they are coming down hard and changing rules unnecessarily. MTF is attempted to "change the culture" within the Processing departments. But until they can offer any real salaries above 45k a year, they are getting what they pay for. For such a large, prosperous company, they dress their Processing employees in ugly, ratty scrubs. They don't provide lab coats, instead you're given an ugly long jacket that looks like a blanket. It would be nice if they could show some pride in their Processing employees. I came to MTF to be part of the donation mission to save and heal lives. I left after I realized processing in the core was just a "Production" job. Huge disconnect between the work and the mission, it just wasn't for me.
