tester

recruiter

phone representative

mobile phlebotomist

medical sales representative

Medical Diagnostic Laboratories LLC

When I had worked here, it was for a position as a lab accessioner. I would drive out to little clinics in the area and collect specimens with their requisition sheets and Fedex them to Medical Diagnostic Laboratories located in Hamilton, New Jersey.

If you do get the job, they will fly you out on their dime and put you up in a hotel. For that, I would give them five stars; however, from then on, they drop. When I was hired, I had about four days in New Jersey for training at the manager's own hometown. While there, you learn to look at about 10 different things you have to make sure is on the requisition before you send it back to the HQ. I think the training should definitely be an entire week! 

Once you are back at your hometown, they give you a company cell phone and entire binder of information and train you with other accessioners in the area. You get your own route and it is up to you to work the set hours and make sure you are at Fedex before closing time. 

Knowing this, when it was my first time, I was unable to do all the clients and so I had to call my manager back. Luckily, I was able to pick them up the next day. Be careful, the manager does not mind yelling at you over the phone. You will feel degraded and it is as if your mom is doing it. Also, you will have to call in every week, if you overlook something on a requisition and it is termed a "discrepancy". You cannot have more than a 3% error every month! 

Whenever you leave a specimen, even if you did not know about it because you check with the clinic; it is still on you. You basically take all the blame! The sales rep, in your area, will basically check with these clients weekly and they will report back to your manager, sometimes not even speaking with you first! So if you forgot something or made a nurse mad, you will hear about it! Also, if you call in sick or take time off, someone else, in your area, will have to take your route and you get paid for none of it! So if you are the one picking it up, you will have to do yours and their's in the SAME AMOUNT OF TIME! 

When you drive around, this is all on your vehicle, for this job position. If you are lucky enough to be a sales rep, they actually get their own car! Medical Diagnostics will actually pay reimbursements for mileage weekly and it is mostly state minimum rate. Since gas prices do fluctuate, they also will take this in account as well! 

It would be awesome if they did give health insurance though (even if it were a catastrophic plan). What they do give is one of those indemnity plans that do not cover much. You would think, for this kind of job, they already pay for the health of your car, so why not yours? It actually would not hurt to get a raise every 6 months neither; although, they give you a $0.50 raise in the beginning after 90 days!

This job is good for gaining experience. I greatly enjoyed my work and being able to speak with all sorts of professionals within the medical field. The freedom to choose which clinics/hospitals that I wanted to pursue was a bonus. I enjoyed that I was working individually and with people. This being said, there were a few cons that ultimately drove me away from the company:  Poor training, especially at the beginning. You have to "earn" your way into corporate training (I heard it's online now)... Multiple reps to an area. This can make your job difficult if the other rep lands an account that you've been trying to obtain, or cost you a potential account by leaving a terrible first impression of the company. You're competing against each other, not working together... You don't get a company car until you've been with the company for a while, and I mean this!.. A major con for me: having to ensure the company as "additional insured" on my auto-insurance. It increases your payment and you must have it! The company will verify every 6 months post-hire to ensure that you still have the company as additionally insured. Health insurance is pretty bad too. 

Salary: Not good compared to market avg rate+don't pay on time,sometimes underpay so check your hrs every pay date to make sure they are doing basic calculation correctly else you will have to struggle later to make them pay. Everyone hired for same position will have slightly different pay rate some cents here and there if you will check with them. Not sure why there is so much changes. Growth Rate=not all all, not enough room of learning whatever you learn in the beginning will stay with you for next 4-5yrs. Respect:Manager will look as if you are good for nothing even though you had all performance result above the skill required. Management:don't provide proper details in written for everything so you will have to suffer if you don't have enough evidence. Lot of blame game, gossips, backbiting and foul languages used by manager and other juniors so not a professional environment. No 401k until you there for at least one yr. Don't increase enough salary as you are more experienced so you stick with same number just slightly changes in decimal of salary. Assicioner are very rough so f word and other bad languages are supported from top  to bottom.

This was the start of my Lab Tech career; they are an entry-level lab with plenty of opportunities to move up, as I did. Employees are taken through the basics to working with more advanced techniques and machinery. They offer a wide range of testing so there is a lot of information to retain, which is why there is so much opportunity to demonstrate yourself in multiple areas. There is a high turn around time as they are high in sample volume per day and have to get results out quickly, so it is a fast-moving environment, but the coworkers form a friendly web and made work very enjoyable. Hard work did not go unnoticed for me, as I was commended for the work I did, especially during the Covid-19 Pandemic, where they were one of the labs to volunteer to receive samples immediately in March 2020. This meant that I was given more opportunities, moved up the ranks, and was recommended to the lab manager by other managers to become a shift lead and a Lab Tech III. The employees were also fairy compensated with lunches as rewards for their hard and tireless work. The job demands a lot of work, but with a lot of work there is a lot of opportunities for rewards. 

Though I have been a member of the company for a short time, approximately 10 months. There is great opportunity to grow within and pursue your career goals. If you wish to cross train and take on responsibilities and learn more, this is the company you want to work for. The management teams and Human Resources work hard for the employees and have great employee morale, they throw many different employee relation events, such as the Holiday party, the gingerbread house contest, health and wellness fair, where you can received a chair massage and get your biometrics done, employee's outings to baseball games, skating rinks, pumpkin patches, and more. This has been the best I've experienced at all the company's I have been employed with.

The company really cares for their employee's and I am certain i made the right choice accepting a position here. I have trained in many different avenues to further my career and continue to advance within my role. There is an opportunity for a promotion and I have been here less then 1 year. They really want to help employee's succeed and go further in their career.

I am presently a part-time driver with this company.  The pay is decent for supplemental income, though it means sacrificing time with my significant other as I drive through the evenings.  Overall, if you prefer less social interaction, a job as a driver is certainly not a bad thing, though dealing with rush hour traffic is certainly stressful.  You're also responsible for taking the vehicle in for maintenance when required, but you do get paid for your time.

The only real problem I have faced concerns communication for non-routine matters of urgency.  It is difficult to reach anyone with the company who can assist you in a timely manner, and it's also difficult to know who to contact for what purpose.  Someone I have needed to reach two or three times during the past few weeks has a direct line listed that is not available, and will not pick up his cell.  His voicemail has been full for some time.  At the beginning, they send you a lot of paperwork that doesn't necessarily clarify any of this or the chain of command in these cases.  Mostly I can turn to my immediate supervisor, but this is not always the case.

Management couldn't care less about their employees. One top management individual has said "Employee morale is of no concern." Poor training, unattainable expectations, and favoritism among the higher ups. If you aren't doing well you are criticized without any guidance or direction on how to improve. Turn over rate is high with most people only lasting a few months. You are seen as just a work grunt and never as a human being. Little to no recognition of exceptional employees and little to no chance for advancement. Another high up management individual has said "You should get your experience and get out." They do not pay you enough for the work they expect of you. HR only exists to protect the company and are rude and unhelpful to the employees. Benefits are hogwash. Health insurance provided is not accepted at most places and unfamiliar to the rest. The hypocrisy and two-timing are unbelievable. The only good thing is the coworkers on your level are supportive and make it tolerable to work there.

First off, this company does not interview lab employees. If you applied and have a degree, they'll hire you - which sounds great, but leads to a great deal of disorganization, confusion, and poor training of employees. Training lasts 90 days and is done so in a random manner, and by a few weeks in, you're expected to be a full-on employee for trainee pay (which is very low). Managers sit in their offices all day and come out every few weeks to yell at employees in "meetings", and the only reason they'll know your name is because it's printed on your lab jacket...and probably printed incorrectly. On the contrary, you can learn a great deal from this place, and it is a good resume builder. Also, it is generally low-stress and there is no "taking your work home". Work-life balance can be maintained well because they don't want to pay anyone overtime! Overall, an okay job, but you can do better once you get a few weeks or months of experience under your belt. 

Pros

-I have nothing positive to say about this company
-I rejected two other GREAT job positions for this and was extremely disappointed during my first days of employment

Cons

-During my initial interview I was promised many things and when I had finally signed a contract all these things somehow did not exist
-After I accepted the position I was told that I would not start working until next month, which was something that was never clarified to me during my several interviews
- I told training would be out of town, turns out it is an at home training where you have to memorize verbatim and 8-page script and watch videos and take quizzes.
-EXTREMELY UNPROFESSIONAL company, do not give your the right indications and then blame you for failing at indications that were never explained to you
-At first, the staff is very friendly and welcome you in a great manner, try to be your "friends" by giving you "tips" but are actually catty women that are looking for their own benefit, not for the company
-I DO NOT RECOMMEND WORKING HERE

I was hired due to lies - was told all of the things such as great benefits/incentives, training opportunities, promotions galore. However there was no raise (I started at $1.50 above minimum wage and within 18 months I was making only minimum and HR had the nerve to say I shouldn't have accepted the job if I didn't want that pay!), performance review, no nothing in 4 years. They outsourced most of the company and management continues to care more about them than their actual employees. When you ask management for help they tell you one thing in person but then they want to renig and say they never said such things. So yeah, if you enjoy making no money and having coworkers who don't know how to do their job (which makes your job 10x harder) and managers that are privileged and out of touch and make 3x the amount of money you do than this company is your go to. Oh and BTW no criminals what so ever. 

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