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LifeStream

Positive and enjoyable work environment. Every day starts with warm greeting and genuine smile . Everyone works together as a creative team to achieve excellence and successful growth. As a volunteer, I'm responsible to observe the donor after donation for adverse reaction, Keep the  schedule date of the next donation and rest time accurate , provide pleasant  and educational environment with refreshments ,cookies and sandwiches ,often appreciation perks, supplied by local businesses. Provide educational answers to a questions donors may have.  Each day is exciting, knowing that you are part of creative team that helps to save lives by connecting donors and patients through the gift of blood .Management is continuously open to new idea and improvement suggestions from all the employee. Enrichment training are schedule regularly. We learn about general requirements for blood donors, donation process, blood and bone marrow facts and company growth and regulations as well Donors are always priority, treated with dignity and respect .Well train and experience team of phlebotomists works together with the volunteers to make the blood donation safe ,pleasant and educational experience to a donors. Most enjoyable part of the job is  talking with and getting to know more about  many different donors who are egger to continuously donate blood and save life of others, they may never meet.

Let's just say there is a high turn over rate for a reason. Managment is corrupted. If you have an issue they will do every thing in ther power for you to not go to HR. I was being harassed my my own supervisor and noticed nothing was ever getting done tell I finally went above managment and go straight to HR just to get my situation handled. If your a phlebotomist like me you will get payed minimum wage. For the amount of work we do this job is definitely not worth it . You will work crazy hours and forget about ever having a weekend off even if you put in time off it always gets denied you have to just call out. It's all about favoritism with this company they promote new employees because they like them or are the favorites of the management. I love what I do, but this company dose not know how to treat its employees. The main guy of the company Is honestly a moron . He littraly wanted use to take blood for a young girl who was first of all 14 and second of all way under weight. He also shows up at mobiles and will re-range our set up keep in mind he doesn't do phlebotomy he littraly shows up to put us in a bad mood and leaves. I have corrected him several times on SOPs when he would ask me who I am doing something a certain way and when I would prove him wrong he would be petty. The main higher up owner dosent even know his own rules about donating. This company Is just a mess you have to be very will strong to want to stay here.

Most days are busy, fun, interactive with happy donors. Blood collections options Whole blood, or Automated. Develop a friendship with donors and coworkers. The difficult  part of this job is that you are expected to be perfect. No kind of space for any type of mistake if you are a favorite, or are willing to allow the management to belittle you, or demean you in front of others( staff and donors). You might stand a chance but with demotions. Some managers have been disrespectful to donors that give there time and blood to come in and donate( a free of compensation act). Without donors we have no work.
 The most part I loved about this job is that you go home with a feeling of self-satisfaction.  Accomplished and fulfilled after a difficult day of hard sticks, however still able to collect the donations, and the donation experience was great for the donors. You help fulfill the donors wish to donate and the needs of the patients in the hospitals. In both cases a win-win.

When I was originally hired I was told that they would work with my schedule and make sure they would accommodate me with having certain days off. That was far from the truth. Training was the only positive part of the job. It was paid and it actually worked with my schedule that was promised to me in the beginning. There is no set schedule and each week you work different times and possibly different days if they decide to flex your schedule. Half of the time you are not asked to work overtime and they make you stay. Employees are overworked and underpaid. Many of us are stressed beyond belief and it takes a physical and mental toll on your body. Life outside of work is not respected and you are expected to drop everything and put work first. Management does care about the needs of employees and issues are swept to the side. There is a high turnover rate and good reason for it. I should have noticed the red flags after training and quit right then.

As a volunteer  I was responsible for many things within the canteen/recovery area:  making sure that donors remained in the area for a minimum of 15 minutes and explained why it was so important for them to do so, restocking, cleaning, organizing, and recruitment of new donors and education materials were given to each donor.
Some days were more busy than others.  Holidays and blood drives were always the busiest times, and it was also a time when the number of volunteers' availability was limited.  There were days when I would be there for 10 hours a day catering to donors and making sure that everyone was happy.  I enjoyed the good and bad days, the busy and slow days, and the staff is always appreciative of their volunteers and the time that they give.

This job is really mentally and physically draining. They don’t really train anything. You go over packets upon packets but it doesn’t really make any sense once you get into the field. Mostly go to high schools and deal with kids just trying to get out of class and messing around. Not the time to mess around big needles. They schedule you 4am to 2pm then the next day you are working til 10pm. Wake up the next day starting at 4am again. You have to take the company vans and some of these employees don’t know how to drive! It’s scary! You have to eat your lunch before the event even starts so you’re eating at 5am and don’t get a break all day until you get back in the van to go back to the hub. It was so mentally and physically exhausting. They’re always calling on your day off to go in because they’re short staffed. Run. 

A typical day at Life Stream would be active calling in the morning by getting most connects by calling the older generation which is retired, followed by center calling more toward afternoon and evening hours. I learned a lot here at Life Stream such as blood born pathogens and how the donation process works. I've also learned a lot from co-workers by using different techniques to better serve our donors. The hardest part of this job would be dealing with parents who don't know there children donate or have donated blood. The most enjoyable part of this job would be saving lives. Every blood donation can save up to 3 lives.I really enjoy helping the community.

A typical day at work is running the calling in the call center, monitor calls and manage a group of 30 people. Train new hires Run reports to be sure the team stays on target.

Over all a wonderful place to work for. We help save lives by providing blood to local hospitals. 

The workplace culture is kept fun by playing music of our choice that is work approiate and plaing games to keep an upbeat atmosphere.

 The hardest part of the job is having to repremand the telerecruters when not following the work place policies. 

The most enjoyable part of my job is working with wonderful people and knowing that we are making a difference in our community.

 I enjoy the excitment of training new hires and reaching our goals on a daily basis.

Working at Life stream Blood Bank.Increased my overall people skills with customers and with providing appropriate aid to those donating.In addition, became familiar with what to do in a bad situation and how to resolve it. At company you are given the chance to work and conversant with on the job Phlebotomist. My job consisted of maintaining a clean and organized area for patients and getting to know them.While at the same time kept them entertained during there 15 mins after each donation. The hardest part of the job was watching the phlebotomist work. Knowing that I am more than capable to preform that task. The enjoyable part of the job. Was of course getting to know different people and why they donate. Also, was a positive environment to be in.

It's not fast paced at all, if you like the slow paced type of environments this one is for you. I work mobile which means I work in different locations everyday, but it's not so bad to start off to get experience sticking people. The most enjoyable part of the job is getting to meet new donors everyday, but the cons of this job is that you do not have a set schedule. Unless you are based in a center you will not have a set schedule on mobiles. It is tiring at times but it's easy money. You get paid for driving to the mobile location and back to the center. There is a high turnover rate and I can see why. Donor specialists do not get paid enough for the amount of moving around we do. 

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