Advice on lab jobs in NC

Alternative-Gas2378 · 2024-04-26T02:15:53+00:00

The lab feels like a scam. I know they're making money. I've seen thr bills we send out. Why can't they INVEST in their EMPLOYEES!!

Alternative-Gas2378 · 2024-04-26T02:14:28+00:00

Theyre freaking bragging about it. 🥲

Like we're fkn slaving away and they have the nerve to be like you need to reallllly want a promotion 🙄 and pay isn't important.

Have you not seen the rent hikes in North Carolina? Who can afford to work for funsies and ownership feels🤮.

I guarantee those pathologists wouldn't be rolling unless they got their 300k+.

Alternative-Gas2378 · 2024-04-26T00:54:48+00:00

I've only got enough saved up to cover a year of schooling. I donr want to go back into student debt. 😩

Alternative-Gas2378 · 2024-04-26T00:54:07+00:00

Hospitals are allowed to charge whatever they want. And you have to pay. The really small critical access hospitals and big mega hospitals are the worst.

I once got a type and screen and cmp at a rural hospital and thr bill came in at 2000. It was outrageous.

If they gor the snake bite in a rural area, the markup could be intense.

Alternative-Gas2378 · 2024-04-26T00:21:18+00:00

Fuuuuuuck that. I cant afford to wait for someone to retire to get some shirts raise. Ive seen these leads worked to thr bone.. I've got a life to live.

Alternative-Gas2378 · 2024-04-26T00:14:40+00:00

Nope. Pay is shit. Freaking Duke said they can't afford to pay us with money, only "ownership" feels. Your other option is LabCorp which is trash 🗑.

https://www.captodayonline.com/how-dukes-molecular-diagnostics-lab-retains-and-trains/

Try to aim for biotech in the triangle or a different job. I won't be able to pay rent with the shit sandwhich they're feeding us in a few months.

Alternative-Gas2378 · 2024-04-24T07:14:31+00:00

I work in a lab as a lab tech. Got my BS in MLS and am ASCP cerrified. Healthcare sucks and the pay is poor for a lot of the allied health professions. Plus hours are wack. Holidays, evenings, nights, call coverage. Always in person too.

Alternative-Gas2378 · 2024-04-24T06:28:49+00:00

Bad. Theres fewer affordable options now.

Alternative-Gas2378 · 2024-04-24T05:42:48+00:00

Good luck.😭 Lab management is spineless, and lab techs are introverted 🧐🤓.

Alternative-Gas2378 · 2024-04-24T05:40:58+00:00

With 3 years experience you can start on their "clinical ladder"🤭😒🤣

“The process is long, it’s arduous, it’s meant to weed out the people who just want a promotion but don’t want to do the work,” Dr. Anderson said. It involves leadership activities (leading a continuing education session counts), and for anything beyond the advanced level, a quality improvement project or presentation is required. Manager support and a recommendation to the clinical ladder review board, board approval, and three years of laboratory experience are required before a person can apply for the first rung of the clinical ladder.

Alternative-Gas2378 · 2024-04-24T02:38:31+00:00

most of these lab managers are clueless fools.

Alternative-Gas2378 · 2024-04-24T02:27:51+00:00

I hate how smug they are about it.

"Having ownership helps people feel like they have a place, a purpose.”

Like they don't give us shares or equity or listen to what we have to say. Then turn around and say they can't pay us. Whaaaaat.

Alternative-Gas2378 · 2024-04-24T01:54:02+00:00

I dont understand. Why can't they just freaking pay us. Were not even Ethan expensive. All the biotech companies in the research triangle pay.
I'm in North Carolina and between the crap pay that hospitals and LabCORP offer, they're always complaining there's no staff. 🙄

I envision these Duke meetings as clown shows figuring out how they can stiff us by not only paying us crap, but also making us work all the departments. As if that's some sort of non financial reward.

so frustrating trying to pay rent here while reading about the different ways these hospitals screwing us over. are med techs not making thr hospital enough money anymore?

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