Pros
Positive mission, decent pay for those with limited college course work.
Cons
Beware of management: (The overall employee consensus) between both locations is that management needs to be renewed. You can feel trapped here having no way of reporting issues without worry of retaliation. This is not Union. So how do you report a hostile work environment without risking your position in the company? Constant micromanaging and managers threaten to fire staff on a monthly basis in Hershey. Its threats in common work spaces for absolute minuscule things. Managers will openly discuss your performance along with your personal life issues with other employees in common spaces. Nothing is private. And if your performance isn’t excellent, you will be berated and demeaned in front of your colleagues and behind your back to your colleagues. There is no privacy here. No where in healthcare is management like this. Upon hire you are told that when your on call you will not be required to be in the office, for a work life balance. That is not the case. You are required to be there everyday regardless of call. So your in the office and could be called out on a case and can be awake working for more than 24 hrs. It’s happened many times. Meanwhile your expected to drive risking your own life on zero sleep! And on hire your told which local hospital is the farthest you will travel and that just isn’t true. From Hershey you will go to NJ and NY line cases. That should tell you just how much traveling and lack of sleep your working conditions are. This is why there is a high turn over rate. People who run tissue call schedules are not running them properly. If they were NJ and NY cases would be done by Philadelphia teams or brought in house. You will work into your days off because of this. And you will deal with this kind of unhealthy working environment. There is no proper training program. Your thrown into it. And when you ask managers questions it’s an inconvenience and your treated as if you should already know the answers. We all come on board for the line of work this serves meanwhile hospitals consider us vultures. You are sent on recoveries that shouldn’t pass screening. It’s a waste of resources. And they push donors through for profit. It’s considered non-profit, but if you come on board you will soon understand why that’s simply not the case.
