Pros
They have tuition reimbursement, the young techs are the only thing keeping the mental health departments alive. They are compassionate, motivated, over worked and highly intelligent. This company is lucky to have them.
Cons
In mental health, starting off as a tech, with a bachelor requirement, you get paid horribly without any significant chance of raises. I think in 3 years I have maybe gotten a total of 30 cents. Which is ridiculous for the experience gained. This company frequently puts employees in violent and threatening situations to just keep the patient for the pay out. They treat you as just bodies that they use to not get in trouble by state for line of sight precaution people, etc. Then when you get hurt and you have to go on light duty, they don't pay for your first 3 days of necessary off work, so they take it out of your PTO not EMTO, even when it is clearly a work related injury. I feel like the older nurses do not care for my safety and frequently walk away from threatening situations. Some of my shift supervisors have clearly never managed people and treat employees like they are an annoyance that she would rather not deal with, never employs any empathy. Will never work for this company again. I thought I could stay and move into a higher position with better pay but that is not a possibility.
