Some of the cons at LabCorp are mandatory OT requirements, low pay (unless u know the right person), few pay increases, and grudges held by some in management positions.
In this billing facility OT is demanded. In your interview they will say you will have to work occasional OT. It's more like all the time. U will be required to work on Saturdays, so if u have kids in activities it may be difficult for you.
The starting pay offered for this position is low. If u have some sort of connection inside the company u can use that to get a higher offer. There is not a set starting salary though, and everyone starts at different levels, even for the same position. It's very strange. I suggest u haggle the highest rate u can from them and u may come away with a better hourly rate than others in your training class.
There is only one opportunity for a pay increase per year in July. I also worked at a competing lab (Spectrum Laboratory Network, now Solstas Lab Partners) and received at least 3 pay increases in one year, maybe 2 were performance based and one was a cost of living increase. There is no recognition for a job well done in this facility, that is, unless u are in training for a position, and all training staff I had contact with were great. But then once u hit the floor u can get 100% quality every week and there are no rewards for that. I even had a supervisor that was annoyed when I wanted to do rebuttals on my audits. She didn't want to do the paperwork! She said "Your quality scores are fine, u don't need a rebuttal", even though I was right and the quality dept scored my audit wrong. And I did send a lot of rebuttals, and they were almost always overturned. I just believed somebody should be doing audits on the quality dept, because they sucked, and were always scoring audits incorrectly.
There were certain members of management in this facility that would hold grudges if u voiced an opinion or made a complaint. They would then make a point of trying to make things as unpleasant as possible while at work. It didn't happen to me directly, but I saw it being done, so if anything, saw it quite objectively. So be careful about that if u are looking to work there, especially if u are assigned to the Florida billing division.
