Octapharma Plasma reviews

2.6

22% would recommend to a friend

(306 total reviews)

Alice Stewart

32% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

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1.0
May 10, 2015

Get your experience and GET OUT.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

They will hire people with no experience. This is the only pro.

Cons

- VERY low pay for the kind of work you do and the amount you do, and very meager pay raises for amount of new work you take on if you get trained in a new area - Subtle racism against white employees by black employees. Whether or not management acknowledged it was happening, everybody knew it was. Most cons extend from management, including: - Not following their own rules except if there is an inspection coming up. A couple times they tried to get us to not switch gloves between donors, even if they had blood on them (Pretty sure this violates several OSHA regulations). - Being disrespectful, demeaning, and unapproachable towards employees (The moment I stopped caring about this company was when the quality supervisor called me 'lazy' and 'slacker' on multiple occasions despite how much work I did for them.) - Most managers are uneducated and do not seem to know how to handle difficult situations, and will blame YOU if something goes wrong. - Operating on a good-old-boy network. You WILL NOT get anywhere in this company unless you are willing to sacrifice an arm and a leg for them. - Promising you new training and then taking weeks or months to go through with it, if at all. - Not giving room for a work-life balance at all. If the power goes out and donations stop for two hours guess what, you're going to stay after for two extra hours to make up for it.

3.0
Dec 28, 2014

Too much micromanaging

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The pay was great for me but I was still on the pay from the previous company. Con: Once Octapharma took over the pay dropped drastically. The plasma is saving a life.

Cons

Many. Management-SUPPORT your employees and stop acting like you know how to handle medical situations. You do not have the training to understand what is truly considered priority in a medical emergency.

3.0
Dec 3, 2014

Roller coaster Ride

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are some really good employees here as co-workers. The current management is great and tries their hardest to work with you. They really are looking to advance you up in the company. Flexible hours.

Cons

Revolving management, along with "cliques" in the work place and employees utilizing their call off exceptions to miss work. The flexible scheduling can be a con because your schedule isn't consistent and changes every week. Starting pay is crappy as well as raises when cross training in different areas

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