Pacific Dental Services Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

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Work life balance is horrible and God forbid you are legitimately sick and call out. I've rotated through 7 doctors in less that 2 years at my office.

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Work and home life balance.

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There isn’t a good work life balance unfortunately for most teams at the National Support Center. People are expected to be reading their emails until they go to sleep and some people are responding when you should be asleep. The place often feels like it’s on fire due to poor planning. The poor planning leads to insane and unrealistic deadlines so there goes your weekend. Job descriptions can be misleading or kept intentionally vague so you can basically be forced to take on all types of responsibilities. Managers aren’t trained to be managers so you likely won’t have someone who really knows how to mentor and grow your career. A lot of good people ended up leaving upon massive layoffs due to the pandemic. There aren’t really promotion opportunities, the company tends to hire from the outside rather than promote from within. HR is also pretty worthless and very short staffed so forget turning to them if you have some kind of issue. There is a lot of turnover in some teams at NSC because HR doesn’t fix the issues with the managers who don’t know how to supervise. It’s the same bad managers who stay for years and years. Also many in upper management are resistant to change. The company culture is also very old school, they have a dress code and want people in every day (pre-pandemic). They tried to make the office modern by turning it into an open area, but the timing is bad with the pandemic. Some people are still going in despite the pandemic, but that seems to be based on the particular team culture. That’s something to ask about if you have someone elderly at home or have a condition. The parking also runs out (pre pandemic anyway). Those other older reviews are very true about that and it’s a long walk if you aren’t parked by 9am. I joined this company initially because of the Christian values the organization claims to have, but these values are rarely mentioned except during your initial onboarding. There is a lot of throwing people to the wolves at this company unfortunately and people blaming others instead of taking responsibility. The founding principles seem very far away and a relic of a faraway time. Unless you are interested in health care or the dental industry, the work isn’t very interesting. Few people have heard of the company. It used to be a stable company, but the pandemic has hurt the business as fewer people are going to the dentist. Thousands were laid off due to the pandemic. The benefits aren’t very good. You have to use one of their dentists and you’re basically forced to pay for PPO medical insurance. There is also not enough time off, you are given the minimum holidays that I believe the federal government requires. The vacation day package is also pretty weak compared to other companies in the area. In general, this is a pretty weak employer and I recommend trying to find another one that has a more solid business and better benefits. The founder has lost touch with his company’s core values.

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work life balance/ hours/ no room for growth

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If you don't manage your time well you could have a work/life balance issue.

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Work life balance may be the only down side but having worked in retail I’m used to the long days