American Red Cross reviews

The consensus within the regions in California is that the organizational pressure to be a workaholic has deterimentally impacted their ability to retain talented and mission-driven employees. Across all departments there is an expectation that every person needs to go above and beyond to meet the unrealistic goals. The business plan at the executive level is intended to "turn the business around" by adopting for-profit business practices. I can say they are in better shape financially than they were in the past, but at the cost of burning out dedicated employees with their extremely high expectations and poor decision making. If you are not someone who is looking to work 50-60 hours a week, and value your after-work activities or want to see your children grow up, you might want to explore opportunities at other organizations.

Employees work activities are calculated and percentages are used to guide evaluation and discipline. If a employee defers a patient for too low hemoglobin, that goes against the employee. That also applies to donor diseases, travel risk, anything that defers the patient from donating. If a donor passes out and the needle needs to be pulled before a full bag is collected it's considered "quantity not sufficient" and it counts against the phlebotomist. Bleed too slow > 14 minutes and it counts against the phlebotomist. A deferral rate of >2% or a QNS of >2% will get a employee in trouble. Spend some drives at a high school and you can hit that mark in one day, it absolutely ruins someone's good stick and deferral average. Employees hate working high schools for that reason. Avoid the job, it's not worth the hours on the road, time away from family and having to put up with crappy management.