CSL Plasma – “Fun job, but some serious flaws...”

Pros

- You're helping others
- Very social job
- Get to know your donors
- Fun place to work
- Co-workers are phenomenal
- Adjusted pay rates for employee donors
- Corporate often gives away money and prizes for center accomplishments
- The GM is pretty cool, able to connect with employees

Cons

- You get to know your donors... the good, the bad, and the ugly
- It's easy to be made uncomfortable by comments from donors (not for the shy or faint of heart)
- Pay is crap. $8.50 starting out to deal with crazy people
- Potentially exposing yourself to blood-borne pathogens everyday, with every donor
- Compliance (quality control) is pretty difficult and doesn't offer constructive criticism... it's rather harsh
- You stand for the whole shift, even in reception, where you'd think that since you're on a computer all day, you'd be sitting for some of it
- Work every other weekend
- Can get extremely busy and overwhelming... tough economic times=many plasma donors

Advice to Senior Management

CSL brings in entirely too many new employees that are often gone pretty quick. Raising the pay would help new employees WANT to stick out the rough patches and continue to be apart of this company. It would save and better utilize the money spent on training.