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American Red Cross

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Sad, demotivating, soulless w/mgrs from hell. - Account Manager American Red Cross Employee Review

1.0
May 22, 2015
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Pros

Educating people on how important it is to donate blood, especially when they're really scared.

Cons

Like many have said, our manager's were truly (except for a few) ruthless, uneducated and many were thrown into the mix with NO previous managerial experience. It's ironic that the bad ones found each other and did their best to squash the life and passion of our best techs and account managers. The middle mgrs often claimed to want you to make your always changing and unrealistic goal because it helped the RC save lives....God help me I believed that for years. Until I found out that when we made goal, THEY received HUGE monetary rewards. Nepotism was rampant, and one of our manager's, possibly the worst of all of them, was a former RN who had been convicted of stealing drugs from her former patients. How did we know this? Her staff hated her so much, they googled the heck out of her till they found the dirt. Former account managers were hired after they had left and taken RC account with them to the competition, loyalty was NOT rewarded. I quit as did many before me. Most of the staff currently working are newbies and only biding their time until something better cones along. Even the HR folks were leaving for better companies and greener pastures. Two thumbs down 😖

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