LifeLabs reviews about "coworker"

Stressful at times Difficult coworkers

High workload and stress Limited career growth and slow promotions Scheduling can be unpredictable (especially part-time/float roles)

You will work at least 10 hours a day plus weekends.

Incompetent management with high turnover.

Disconnect between managements and lab operation employees. Bloated with too many middle managements trying to make too many changes without input or consideration of lab employees. Lack of opportunities to climb up since nepotism is rampant. Operated like a factory where quantity matters more than quality, except during inspection when quality appeared prioritized. Forced overtime to meet the government's required TAT. Many burn out employees and employees turnover.

Late shifts for new comers

Unhealthy workplace. Clients are highly anxious because they are worried about results. Workers are not educated on violence prevention or how to deescalate situations which are very common unfortunately in healthcare. Labs are understaffed and too small to provide enough care for populations. Staff regularly have shortened breaks for miss breaks because clients complaining about wait times. My coworkers were primarily immigrants and payed large amounts of money for schooling and then are paid a wage that you can’t get by on. Staff voted against continuing on strike because they could not afford to be on strike, even tho LifeLabs was trying to take away what little benefits we had during covid. During Covid, when the company was making huge amounts of money from doing covid testing. Staff were not educated on new systems just were provided with an email and a bunch of testing kits. Then are hit with lots of frustration and aggression from the public. Staffs hours can be changed and altered as they want. Staff can be given a 4.5hr shift so they only have to give them a 15min break or no break at all. So they can put on less staffing as well. I had some wonderful employees that gave it their all, I really hope their union is looking out better for them.

As a Casual, you're schedule is never consistent. You have to be available all day, 6 days a week, so you'll never feel comfortable making plans. There's no additional pay for being called in last minute, so being a casual really has no perks aside from specifying which days you're available to work, but even then, you're only allowed to change that once a year. It is a for-profit company, so they prioritize cost savings over anything else, just like any other for-profit company would. This unfortunately leads to very overworked lab technicians, so it's difficult to see them struggling so much when our job is so easy in comparison. Seeing people cry can really dampen the day. Some of the routes are ridiculously easy, while others are so packed with stops that there's no time for breaks or you'll be running into overtime. If you're looking for a full-time position, you have to wait until someone retires or quits or is otherwise permanently removed, but then their route goes up for bid, and if it's one of the good ones, someone with more seniority will take it, leaving you with the worst of the routes. Casuals don't get the benefits package or paid vacations, but they do get 6% added to their paycheque to compensate.

Poor pay, not many benefits