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American Red Cross

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don't donate to this company - Anonymous employee American Red Cross Employee Review

1.0
Mar 15, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

none. none at all. the entire organization is managed by some really not very good people.

Cons

don't be fooled. just because this company has been around forever, it doesn't mean it's an ethical organization. they treat volunteers and low-level employees like crap. if you complain, they get rid of you. if you notice that things are not right, you're rewarded for turning a blind-eye to it....I wouldn't trust this organization. if you give blood, they sell it to hospitals to pay salaries. if you donate money, it pays MOSTLY salaries. the money they give to people when their houses burn down is marginal. there aren't that many home fires where they give people money. AND, when there is a major disaster, the money goes towards mostly volunteers traveling to give away food and other things that it got for free, and again for SALARIES. the only thing i'd give to them is advice. get rid of the CEO, upper management, and all those people who DON"T REALLY CARE about people. Ok....well, that means they'll need to start all over again. the only people remaining may just be the volunteers. if the red cross fired ALL upper management and hired volunteers to replace them, i will retract this review. also, if you look at the reviews in here -- they're done by red cross people who were successful--it's management reviewing management.....

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