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Fast-paced, with a friendly atmosphere. A typical work day would include evaluation of donor suitability to donate plasma. This would include a medical history review, evaluation of test results and hand-on physical exams.
WANE Forgotten account? Fast paced environment. InboxDollars pays you to watch videos, search, shop, take surveys, and more. A great place to work with even better benefits. For specific information about the fees associated with a BioLife prepaid card, donors will need to contact Wirecard. Careers - We're Hiring Ratings from.
The staff is very friendly and helpful. Management is easily accessible and my direct co-workers were the icing on the cake. A great place to work with even better benefits. Was this review helpful? Toxic Environment.
This was the worst work experience I have ever had. Management was constantly looking for reasons to terminate employees and would fabricate when necessary.
I was not terminated, but watched it happen to several people. The corporate level seemed to only want to try to constantly achieve more with fewer and fewer employees. The local management only seemed concerned with telling corporate what they wanted to hear and not with actually making the center run smoothly. For many years we went through the very predictable pattern of losing a large number of employees when school started in the fall while at the same time getting a ton of new donors for the same reason.
This problem could have been easily fixed by putting a focus on hiring and training during the summer months, but no one in management wanted to explain to corporate why that would be necessary. The work itself was good and very rewarding.
Coworkers were great, the donors were fine, but no one in a leadership position seemed to care about making things run smoothly. The company as a whole is full of cliches and under appreciated staff. Management doesn't merit hard work.
The only way to move up in the company is to friend and brown nose your way up. BioLife was very stressful.
The most enjoyable part of my job was the interaction with the diverse donors. The hours were variable.
I could work some nights all the way till 9: Heimfeld runs the year-old program — funded through a grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases — that collects PBSCs and provides them to dozens of researchers across the country. The nonprofit Hutch program is one of the largest in the nation to collect and sell the cells. Last year, about local donors at Fred Hutch provided billions of cells to more than outside investigators not only in the U. The PBSCs are collected through a process called leukapheresis, which removes blood through one arm, separates out white blood cells, and returns the blood to the donor.
Some people have reactions to the shots, which can cause joint aches and flu-like symptoms, but Smith said she felt fine.
From those, scientists can request specific components, such as T cells and B cells, which play a key role in immunity. They might order a batch of 20 million or 40 million T cells, for instance, for use in an experiment.
Finding enough donors to supply the cells is a constant challenge, said Sharvari Joshi, who helps manage recruitment. For every successful donor, seven people have to be screened. Donors must be between the ages of 18 and 70 and in good health, plus they must meet typical criteria for donating blood products.
It appears safe, researchers said. Ravi Prasad, 37, a Community Transit worker from Marysville, has donated PBSCs twice, both times on his birthday, after learning about the opportunity at a backyard barbecue. Although he did develop flu-like symptoms from the shots, he said he welcomed the chance to share his cells. As an immigrant from Fiji, he said he felt an obligation to give back to the community that welcomed him. The opinions expressed in reader comments are those of the author only, and do not reflect the opinions of The Seattle Times.