Pros
As many hours as you want and valuable skills/experience.
Cons
I don't even know where to begin. I only worked for the Community Blood Center for 5 months and it was a horrible experience. They are severely understaffed and that put my coworkers and myself in dangerous situations daily. We frequently worked 30 minutes to 2 hours after our scheduled shifts, we were informed last minute of schedule changes, and the pay wasn't nearly high enough to offset all of the bad aspects of working there. The corporate culture is toxic, there's never ending drama, they often throw trainees into shifts they aren't trained to handle (yes, that means they are sticking donors with needles without proper preparation) and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't keep conditions safe for both staff and donors with the way they scheduled donors. Despite being severely understaffed, they overbook donation appointments and push through donors who shouldn't donate. Finally, when I put in my resignation, I gave them 4 weeks notice. Then I came down with COVID, which I contracted through work since they didn't require donors to wear masks, and despite having an official test result stating I had COVID, they fired me. And since I can't work my last two weeks at this job, they aren't paying out my PTO because "I'm unable to work my two week notice period"...because they fired me. There's my honest review. I loved my work and the surface message of CBC, but I can't recommend working for them.
