Comments on: Former Employee Speaks Out

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 06 May 2011 17:56:27 +0000

Wow – a bunch of bitter people. I worked for LabCorp for five years and got fired — for good reason, I deserved it. I mouthed off to a client and shouldn’t have. My years at LabCorp in both the central division and the corporate offices were wonderful, and I was treated with great kindness and all of my managers over the years did what they could to scoot my career along. It was my own mouth that made me lose my job — and gave me a lesson learned. I have a hard time believing that each and every one of these blog entries are solely due to poor management, but rather, to poor employees. Be thankful you have jobs.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:16:08 +0000

I spent a few years working for Labcorp in WV. The sum of my experience: Don’t work there. It’s not worth it. Bad insurance, bad management, bad company. Period.

Oh, and further, for the rest of my days I will never use Labcorp for any of my personal medical testing, as they value work speed much more highly than accuracy from their employees.

By: Rose

Rose — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:00:49 +0000

I agree with allot of these complaints. I was recently fired (2-2-11) from LCA for what was called a policy violation. I had given 10 years of my life to this company and during that time I was the reason 2 separate accounts were saved because of me. Don’t get me wrong I am not bragging but because of my skills, work ethics and knowledge of lab tests these particular accounts made it known if I was not the PST working in their office they would take their business to Quest. I loved my job very much. I started out with a temp service for 1 year then was hired on. While I was with the company I was Team Leader and then Supervisor. I did not like the boss lady position at all. I came from the same stock as my now ‘employees’s’ and I hated being the one to dish out discipline when I knew exactly where they were coming from. I stepped down.
At one time I was offered a severance because I was told there were no open positions for me to transfer to. Turns out there was but the manager assumed I didn’t want to drive the 50 miles to get to the site. I did end up transferring and driving the distance because I needed the job.
In 2009 my husband suffered from a terrible injury that crushed his heel. I was now the only one working and providing insurance coverage. He is still not recovered from this fall and needs more surgery. Now I have no insurance to cover this and my supervisor was well aware of my personal drama.
But back to why I was fired. I was working in an Endocrinologist office and the office is closed for 1 1/2 hours for lunch. I had taken my lunch break and about 15 minutes before the office was to reopen I was outside in my car (in the office parking lot) and my supervisor showed up and says she did not see me any where. Yes I was back on the clock. The very next day I was called to come to the closest PSC. When I got there my supervisor and manager were there and HR on the phone. I was basically told I took a break to soon after having a lunch break. WTH?! At the time I was in shock and couldn’t think straight. When I got home I looked at the company policy and there is nothing in there about what time you are to take breaks. Working in a Dr’s office you take breaks when you can. In this case the office was still closed!
So it seems LCA has double standards when it comes to this particular policy.
Now this account that I saved is very upset and looking to change labs.
But I feel this way, God has a better plan for me. My time with LCA is over and better things are on the horizon.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:01:10 +0000

I read a lot of these complaints and the fact is that most of what people complain about is true. I have over 20 years of experience working in labs and the practices of Labcorp are unbelievable at times. This company does not care about it’s employees at all, they want robots. No laughing, no music, no talking all while management runs around laughing and talking. At times the talk is terribly inappropriate. I know of one department that if you are male you get away with everything! I have seen labels come off samples and then guessed at which label belongs to it. Work done without gloves. at one point an employee without gloves handled samples then scratched and developed a MSR. Employees clock in and leave. While others were screamed at in front of other employees for getting 4 minutes overtime. Management talks about other employees to employees. You have no privacy at all. You can NOT go through proper channels in this company. You report something and it will be told to everyone and your name given out. So much for the whistle blower protection! Yes, it is true that a LOT of samples are mishandled. Profits for this company last year were increased by taking back PLB from employees when we were told we could take it. These hours were taken out of the check the week of Christmas, we were given one day’s notice. If you are short 15 minutes that will be taken out of your PLB. Any excuse to take PLB is acceptable so you end up with none unless you have been with the company 10+ years. It’s true kiss butt and you get promoted whether or not you have the experience or training.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:57:26 +0000

I am a current employee of Labcorp in San Antonio. Labcorp seems to change their PLB practices at whim. Some can and some can’t. My problem is with ethics, my current supervisor has a problem with letting a certain employee access our personal information. This employee knows everything about us! Her favortism is outrageous! Researching how to file a formal complaint.

By: An employee from Allied

An employee from Allied — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:28:30 +0000

All seniority and moneys transfered when NHL (now Labcorp) purchased Allied in the early nineties. PLB was transferred according to seniority. Since Labcorp has a scaled PLB program, the longer your service, including previous employer acquired by Labcorp (for me it is now 21 years), the more PLB you will have. Also, depending on length of service, the more negative you can go. I believe after 5 years of service you can go 80 hours negative. Time off without pay is frowned upon but allowed with supervisory approval.

By: benjamin

benjamin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:19:59 +0000

no, unless you get FMLA

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:25:33 +0000

I am a currently acquired Lab Corp employee(bought out on 12/1/10). They originally told us when we were aquired that we could either take time off without pay or go negative on our PLB time if we didn’t have it. Now it seems the policy has changed out of thin air and we CANNOT take time off without pay now, only go negative on PLB if we don’t have any. We just got acquired on 12/1/10, so we have very little PLB since they didn’t carry over time from out old company. Any other employees of LabCorp allowed time off without pay???

By: Former Genzyme Genetics employee

Former Genzyme Genetics employee — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:11:51 +0000

Genzyme Genetics was just bought out by LabCorp as of 12/1/2010. We lost tons of bennies, way less time off and really crappy medical compared to what we had before.
They told us we’d have jobs for at least a year, but seeing the Bon Secours Lab story, I don’t believe it. I’m definitely not impressed with LabCorp so far, they already just cut a big program that was Genzyme’s.

By: benjamin

benjamin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:28:09 +0000

so, happy LCA employee, you have no problem with unethical behavior, management only caring about making money and not accuracy of patient results?

I am all for making money, but this is a MEDICAL facility. 80 percent of patient care decisions are made relying upon accurate test results.

If the focus is on productivity over accuracy in a medical practice, tell me, would you trust your kid’s lab results done a Labcorp?

nuff said