While LifeLegacy is a well-intentioned non-profit organization, every move upper management makes seems money driven. The priority of tissue recoveries and clients revolve around money. The usage of per diems to do cases has probably diminished at least 75% in 2015, in favor of having salaried full time staff perform recoveries. In the past, if there was a donor in house, someone was unquestionably working on it. Nowadays, management routinely pushes cases unless they feel the per diems will "earn their paycheck" from a complex fresh case. To say there is a "Revolving Door Policy" here would be an understatement. From the per diems to the department coordinators to the managers, faces are constantly changing. Many people use LLF employment as a stepping stone to something bigger, but the technical services manager position is clearly one where you work under high scrutiny.There was a time when I thought I could possibly make a career out of working here. However, this job is no longer a steady source of income unless you take an underpaid salary position. I would highly suggest the motivation for applying here to be gaining experience. Although the case pay is reasonable, it was cut in half years ago, and has stayed stagnant even when the recoveries have become more complex and tedious tasks were added to each case. My paychecks were plagued with inaccuracies way too often. The multiple individuals in charge of the checks would routinely short me case pays, and they literally forgot a zero on one of my coworkers checks once ($100 instead of $1000). They did always fix their mistakes and fairly compensate me however, through nagging and complaining. Department meetings were never useful, they were more so a display of how upper management doesn't understand how technical services operates. There is also little sense of appreciation via positive reinforcement for per diems, the only feedback we received was in the form of quality control emails pointing out our mistakes. Performing recoveries is scientific but gruesome, absolutely not for the faint of heart. There is a constant inherent risk of bloodborne pathogens and injury that is never really talked about (until you accidentally cut yourself), but this can be avoided with attention to detail and safe sharp usage. This job is incredibly difficult, it will push you to your physical and emotional limits, and eventually most techs burnout. I would be lying if I said I didn't wake up with work related nightmares numerous times.
