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Elena Bajic
2006
2.8
Recommend to a friend
47%
Say this is a great place to work
49%
Proud to have on resume
70%
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
You're working for a great cause with really good committed people.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
It was a very sharing, kind, considerate group of people
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
It's a company that does good work and learns from its mistakes.
Employee - Director
The American Red Cross does good work - the volunteers are amazing and the need is real. But it is not a good organization to work for. They treat employees as commodities - move people around without strategy or discussion - and seem to think that the "next best thing will solve the errors and structural problems that exist.
Employee - Director
My team was great and I would join them again in a heartbeat. But the corporate culture is beating and abusive.
Employee - Director
Hiring practices are uneven - and often unfair to current staff. There is a search for a unicorn... in this case, a person from outside the organization who can bring corporate experience to bear in the non-profit environment.. and manage fundraising using only sales and profit based principals.. all while talking about disaster and the mission non-stop
Employee - Vice President (VP, SVP, EVP, etc.)
The Red Cross of today is much different than a decade ago. Some good (increased professionalism, some smart expense and structure decisions) but most bad (horrible culture, incompetent leadership, back-stabbing headquarters environment, disempowerment of strong field leaders, complete lack of financial transparency - unless you read the notes of the financial statements). It's an organization I will not support with my charitable contributions any longer.
Employee - Vice President (VP, SVP, EVP, etc.)
Toxic and demoralizing.
Employee - Vice President (VP, SVP, EVP, etc.)
Very unhealthy culture. Isolated executive leadership team, a very political headquarters, disregard for the field. Leadership team has created a toxic environment while driving the organization to financial ruin. Constant staff reductions from 2013 to present of 2017. Seems that morale can't get worse, but every year it does. Its awful what the leadership team has done to such an iconic American institution.
Employee - Director
Didn't feel the executive director was ethical. I was asked to give the board essentially a 'fake' project to keep them busy and distracted. We never gave donors enough clarity on how to donate to anything outside of the general fund, which meant they could send a donation for a specific story or cause they learned about in the media, but if they didn't specify in the memo section we could use how we saw fit (not sharing with the national fund for example when a major disaster hit and local donors sent their checks to our branch).
Employee - Director
I did a lot of good. The teams I was on, we did a lot of good. It was just so depressing
Employee - Director
People really stand by each other but it was under a constant umbrella of gloom and layoffs
Employee - Director
Leadership in biomedical is woefully lacking. They are financially broke and have been for years. Constant endless downsizing.
Employee - Director
This chapter DID not follow guidelines as to how much was distributed to the proper disaster/incidents. More was kept of donations than directed by the HQ directives. Ex. If we received $100 for flood relief. The chapter kept almost 15% of the donation for itself and only forwarded the rest to actual relief to the victims.
Employee - Director
The Baton Rouge Chapter under the direction of Vic Howell, Sr. was essentially an "every person for themselves" culture. If you "sucked" up to Vic you were rewarded. The last 6 months that I worked there it was horrible. There was no communication between the CEO and the directors. Working together was not nurtured.
Employee - Director
When I worked at the Baton Rouge Chapter of the ARC I was the Director of Accounting reporting only to the CEO, Vic Howell, Sr. He was and still is a male chauvinistic pig. He actually "hit" on the Public Affairs employee. He only hired men during his tenure and when an opportunity opened up in the Emergency Services department he promoted a male with less experience than a female who had worked overtime without pay with the hopes of a promotion to the Director of Emergency Services when it came available. When it came time to settle on our annual budget, two years in a row he approved a raise for all of the Directors at a 5% rate. The rest of the staff received a 2% raise.
Employee - Instructor
It may be useful when seeking to work in healthcare organization.
Employee - Instructor
Extremely parochial people.
Employee - Instructor
The chapter of American Red Cross I worked with, on Black Canyon Road, was very prejudicial. The staff discriminated on practically everything from training to payment.
Employee - Director
Antithetical to the mission of helping others--development office was cutthroat and disconnected from other departments with a bevy of protocols that were ineffectual -- biggest issue is that the national organization had no idea what the needs of the local and regional offices were.