American Cancer Society Reviews

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Can be high stress - but life saving work can be stressful!

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Fundraising goals, downtime during off season for relays

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Poor upper management, lack of transparency and trust

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lower salary and little room for growth

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Constant change, high turnover, goals changing

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Absolutely terrible group leaders. Widely observed throughout different groups. Lots of people quit regularly

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Politics way heavy in decision making

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If nothing else from these reviews helps, let this stick with you: If you have children under 5, be prepared for a difficult time with this organization and with your family. When the company found about my child, they immediately started acting differently. They may mention the perks off flexibility with the schedule but that will be nonexistent ( at least in my case). Your children are only young once; Don't sacrifice spending time with them just so you can work 12 or 14 hour days. Again, they mentioned flexibility and being able to work on tasks from home but the truth came out that "you are expected to be at the office unless you have a prearranged appointment elsewhere."

The only training that you might be given will be the online on-boarding that companies typically use. That is not a problem but due to restructuring that the company has undergone recently, you may end up with a manager who is never around. If you have a manager who is never around to provide leadership and guidance as you begin, that makes it difficult to excel as you start to learn the culture of the organization.

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No employee appreciation
They say work life balance is important but clearly it is not

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1. Horrible sick leave policy. You can only take sick leave if your doctor prescribes at least 5 consecutive days in a row, not including weekends. So you basically have to get sick on a Saturday, see your doctor on a Sunday, and convince him or her to recommend you for sick leave Monday through Friday (no matter the severity of your condition). Otherwise, you will be met with the canned phrase, "That's why we have such a generous PTO policy!"
3. Absolutely terrible waste of in-house talent. They consistently snub highly qualified and loyal internal candidates for external candidates. And while they have no problem hiring certain POC, they definitely have a huge problem promoting certain POC to leadership roles. The corporate leadership is startlingly white, which wouldn't be such a big deal if the organization weren't headquartered in Atlanta, a city where being highly melanated isn't supposed to be disadvantageous.
4. Below average pay and an unwillingness to promote professional development. If you were hired as a peon, you'll likely stay a peon until you find opportunities elsewhere or until you get fired.
5. TRANSFORMATION, aka frequent mass layoffs of the most loyal employees, regardless of the many years of work they've done. Every two or three years they layoff large numbers of employees because donations are dropping year after year, yet they still somehow manage to pay millions of dollars to the CEO and hundreds of thousands of dollars to the directors with donor money.