Pros
I used to think I wanted to be associated with this company until I reached retirement-Back when ethics were supposedly the bottom line. I felt safe and I felt supported.
Cons
As my title suggests, I am overworked. They decided add a large amount of hours to our schedule and cut our hourly rate so that our yearly pay remained the same. So, we are doing more work for less money. In the meantime, long-standing employees are quitting at a furious pace. The new schedule means that the only way to cover for departing employees are for the other two clinicians at their base to work 36 hour shifts to cover that person. Or, the aircraft has to go out of service. There is not a single (non-new hire) med crew member at my base that has not individually told me they were looking at job listings. During one of the conference calls the president of air medical actually said that they thought our old schedule would decrease the number of suicides, but it didn't. So...basically who cares if you are killing yourselves anyway, lets just work you more, right? I don't see how this can't be worse. Even though I won't be one of the ones that kills my physical self over these hours, know that you have broken my spirit. I worked so many years to be prepared to do this job and I'm good at it. Now the only reason I haven't quit is that I keep hoping you will realize the error of your ways and make it right.
