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Doctors Hospital of Laredo

A typical day as a receiver would be taking out the overflow pallets which contains store room supplies that no longer fit on the shelves. Also taking out the trash, pretty much emptying the warehouse so that the medical supplies can be received. Stock supplies arrive on a daily basis because the hospital is only equipped to maintain itself for only 48 hours without supplies. The company that we worked directly with receiving merchandise would constantly send shortages of supplies or not at all, which is totally fine since we can go ahead and report it to our leaders. The challenging part is putting away the supplies, the warehouse is not equipped for the amount of supplies that arrive there on heavy days like Monday, Wednesday, Friday, since the warehouse is really small i was involved in a accident my partner ran over my foot with the electric jack. To top it off  FedEx express and ground would bring a little over 100 packages and ups would bring at most 32. Mind you as a receiver your job is not only receiving merchandise but also taking them out of the box, braking down the box and receiving said items on the system which they have an ancient program, delivering supplies under the category as special order. Mondays would be the worst days since that is when everything arrives and I do mean everything.  The space a receiver has in the back is reduced to barely a place where you can barely walk.  That is the first half, the second part is the delivery of the special orders, and OMG on Mondays that is when all the items we had taken out of the box are required to be placed on bins (plastic) because someone had the idea that the items should be taken out of the box and be placed in on a plastic bin in the departments store room and have someonein that department sign the delivery documents as proof that you left them the special orders 80 percent of the time no one wants to sign them for ungiven reason , this is a first I hear about that. Then after you and the head receiver are done delivering supplies then comes the time consuming part getting the packing slip and delivery documents together and scan them into the system and throw the scanned documents. Doing double work is great, after all that is finished you call it a day bring everything inside overflow pallets, trash cans etc. If it is the trash day that was assigned to you that means you have to sweep and clean all the department. At times you will not be able to throw the trash, and the person that is assigned to throw the trash the next day WILL NOT THROW THE TRASH, why ? Because you were supposed to throw it not them. After you are done well call it a day and ride home. This is only the superficial part of the job as a "Receiver" now let's go onto the downside there are constant interruptions from corporate or the buyer or the leaders about the stockroom supplies or special orders. They want to check if said items are received or not, mind you the items they ask for can be checked on the system because the documentation was scanned. They are able to see them, why are they not checking? Beats me.  Also one of the biggest upsets is a word that is thrown around too much which is "we are providing a service" the other departments take advantage of that and abuse their authority, in a way that they feel entitled to call on the line and pretty much yell at you or threatening to call your leaders if they are in dire need of a special order that they forgot to place the order in, you will be held accountable for that because they say so. I have worked in a warehouse and by far the worst thing is the organization and the incoming of supplies, they are pretty much thrown all over the place. Also the team is lacking a lot In the department of initiative, they will see you struggling and they will just stand by idle seeing how you get out of that situation, and they are quick to say well we didn't help you because you did not ask for help. Which is a big no no when it comes to warehouse jobs, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Later down the road you will be tasked to have your own aisles with supplies that you will be tasked to restock even if it is something you do not deliver, if by any chance you do not restock no one will except one person which is a woman that she does know how to play in  team. After that comes the following responsibilities covering lunch, preparing crash carts for patients because the nurses are too busy to do that (watching tik tok)  pretty much you are not going to be a receiver. We did a lot and to be honest I enjoyed it but the pay was  bad. For the amount of responsibilities you had you were getting low balled and worked a lot. The culture felt like more work same pay happy employees. Also I tried to implement new ideas for receiving, but the response I would get would be that corporate could not approve that since we were a non revenue generating department. 
If you like working in a environment where you will not follow a structured path as to receive and accomplish all those feats in 8 hours then that is the job for you. If not I suggest you look somewhere else where you will not get pressured and be held accountable for 99 percent of the time supplies that didn't ship to the warehouse.
I have worked as a receiver and by far what they call receiving there in the hospital is by far a farfetched idea of what that title means. Definitely I would not consider getting hired there as a warehouse clerk/tech/receiver. I am not a disgruntled ex employee but said department needs to get on with the times embrace change.

I enjoyed working with the staff at Doctor's, the only people I did not understand or tolerate is the management. They will say whatever you want to hear to get you to do something they want and have no regards for the employee. There were ups and downs to graveyard shift for example, the nursing staff was professional but kind, they taught me a lot about professionalism, patient care, and the importance of prompt but correct work. I learned to put myself in the position of the patient and understand their needs. I looked forward to going to work every day. The only downside to that position was the hour of the shift. The people who were supposed to relieve me from my shift got there late more than 90 percent of the time and I was occaisonally called to come in early because of faulty schedules. After a year I was exhausted and when I brought it up to management they just told me that they were training people to take that position and would move me back to rotating shifts but I was never moved. After a year of waiting, I  finally had to give my two weeks notice. It was definitely the hardest thing I ever had to do because I loved everything about my job.

Work schedules for full time were 3/7 days i was scheduled to work from 6 am to 6 pm hourly rate for me was at $9.50

a typical day was that my day was a routine at 5:45 am get to work and get report on my patients from the night CNAs and Nurses then at 6 am start my shift get vitals done on all my patients report any abnormalities to the nurse in charge the when done input data in the computer so nurses and doctors can access the patients vitals. Vitals were due three time at shift at 8 am, 12 pm and 3 pm. after morning vitals start bathing bed bound patients and turn them every 2 hours. Breakfast arrived at 7:45 am after breakfast continue with bathing and providing towels and clean gowns to mobile patients as well as change their linen.

I learned to be efficient

I loved all my co-workers

the hardest part of my job was not always having sufficient personnel to get my patients need in time. There was times were we were left with 14-15 patients to one CNA

The most enjoyable part of my job was making patients and their families happy

A typical day is picking up specimens and tissue. Delivering of supplies to clinics and offices. I learned that alot of things I was promised never came to pass such as pay raise, promotion, not even a 3 month evaluation and I’ve been here 7 going on 8. Hardest part is having a co worker who’s been here 15 plus years and having to tell him how to do things more efficient that and management doesn’t hold him accountable for countless errors he makes. The enjoyable part I’ve yet to find one other than getting paid. Why am I still working here well I need a job I just pray another one is around the corner. 

The manager could never design a good schedule. At least once a month I got phone calls and text messages asking if I could come in because there was a staffing error on the schedule or someone called in. The phlebotomy team was always extremely understaffed for the time expectations desired. Many times only one person would be there for the entire hospital including emergency codes..

What is the best part of working at the company?
My co workers. They were easy to get along with and very helpful.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Administration, there was too much favoritism. We were always short staffed and yet they made an administrative position when one of their select few got upset when she did not get the position she had as interim

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Fellow coworkers are great. Administration has little regard for staff and or staffing issues.

For a company that is supposed to promote health and wellness... all the employees look like ghouls on their local social media page.  They run their employees ragged. Non competitive wages.  Purposely short staffed.  Working full time, you are required to take call, and they also abuse mandatory overtime.  On top of it all your still hassled to pick up shifts or work opposite shift hours in order to help them.  Management is another story.  They are obsessed more over productivity/metric numbers over their own staffs well being.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Coworker team environment and great managers

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Nothing was stressful while working here all professional 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Family work environment always helping each other out

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Check patients make rounds give report to nurses interact with family

What is the best part of working at the company?
Under paid ,over worked , even on my days off get called in , horrible boss 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
All of the time it was only you for the ent

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Hostile belittling I'd get at 10 pm and was scheduled for 3am 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
No guidance no respect. You're expected too much

It was a fast paced job, most of the time I will be at the ER dept working, able to meet patients and be able to help them with their registration will make them feel welcome at the hospital, as well be able to be the coordinator of my dept of a short period was a great experience, able to connect and meet the doctors needs in a daily basis as well learn how to work with the health insurances works and their rules

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