Pros
The only pros are the experience in a healthcare setting that many other labs require and the benefits are good.
Cons
Specimen Processing is horrible. Avoid at all cost!! Management watches you like a hawk and they make you feel incompetent. All they care about is pushing production numbers and could care less about their employees. It is a literal sweatshop. They set ridiculously high standards on the number of requisitions one should process per hour leading to mistakes. You are told to slow down to avoid certain mistakes, just to get nagged that your not hitting your daily numbers in the end. Management in this department definitely care about quantity NOT quality. Time off is impossible. You get written up for being sick three times in a week so just don't get sick ever and doctors notes are not an exception. You are REQUIRED to work overtime and some holidays because other shifts lack the staff and need coverage.