Biolife Plasma Services reviews

- Unrealistic goals from corporate that burn out employees and cause long waits for donors as a result of a failure to listen to feedback from in-house center staff - High turnover rate - Low staffing with no corporate push or allowance to continue to hire - Easy to move up but due to high production demands, training is often neglected and advancements are usually stalled as a result. If you're interested in BioLife being your career, it is easier to just get hired on to a higher position externally as they will not prioritize any current employee growth if it takes them away from production. -Employee hours can change at a moments notice, employees can be forced to work overtime and their shifts shortened or cut to meet productivity or center needs.

They micro-managed everything including the way you write--how you write 4's, Y's, dates, etc. They have people who go over the charts just to look for things like this and make you correct them if you slip up and write like a normal person. They don't provide pens, but forbid the use of certain pens, as well. The forbidden are gel pens which is understandable, but I had a non-gel pen approved and later forbidden because they thought the ink looked like a gel pen. When I started the job, we had booths to sit in, but we got a new center and then we were only allowed to stand in one place all day with hot lab coats on. When two of our best employees tried to improve conditions, they were called "negative" and fired. This started a chain of firings including management that had been loyal, good workers at the place for years. The place didn't feel safe and moral was in the toilet. I had a nursing background and I found conditions on the floor to be appalling, but management said it was all healthcare approved. The phlebotomists are high school graduates with no training in IV's, blood reactions, or blood and body fluid precautions except the training that was provided at the facility. They're hanging IV fluids with no understanding--which is something even an LPN or some EMT's can't do. One set of gloves is worn until they become bloody or develop a hole so that set of gloves is used from client to client with no washing of hands. The same applies to the technicians in front who are taking vitals and doing labs. You are not allowed to change your gloves between clients due to time constraints. You can never be good at your job because everyone is expected to do things in the exact same way every time and these things are monitored constantly. In addition, policies change weekly, so you must love change.