PCA Southeast Sells Out

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Anonymous said:
HOw many cytotechs were laid off from PCA? Obviously I am sure the paps are now being sent to Birmingham. You are right, many account will be lost.
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Every Cytotech was let go, most on short notice and all with no severence. Cytotechs with over twenty years of experience were kicked to the curb with nothing to show for their loyalty through the hard times.

They were loyal when they went years without a pay raise because they were told the company needed that money to compete. Yet the pathologists still enjoyed their lavish European vacations and high-end sports cars. The Cytotechs were paid 30-50% below market wages but accepted that because they thought they were sacrificing for the greater good.

Customers are being fed a line of bull about PCA and labcorp being some sort of partners. They will soon see the truth after the 6 month milestone mark passes and the PCA pathologists cash out on the sale to labcorp. They absolutely detest being associated with LabCorps inferior service but money makes for strange bed-fellows.

PCA customers who are suffering through LabCorps substandard service and quality out of loyalty to their PCA rep and PCA relationship will be dropped like a maggot infested carcass as soon as the 6 month milestone is passed.
 






Anonymous said:
Every Cytotech was let go, most on short notice and all with no severence. Cytotechs with over twenty years of experience were kicked to the curb with nothing to show for their loyalty through the hard times.

They were loyal when they went years without a pay raise because they were told the company needed that money to compete. Yet the pathologists still enjoyed their lavish European vacations and high-end sports cars. The Cytotechs were paid 30-50% below market wages but accepted that because they thought they were sacrificing for the greater good.

Customers are being fed a line of bull about PCA and labcorp being some sort of partners. They will soon see the truth after the 6 month milestone mark passes and the PCA pathologists cash out on the sale to labcorp. They absolutely detest being associated with LabCorps inferior service but money makes for strange bed-fellows.

PCA customers who are suffering through LabCorps substandard service and quality out of loyalty to their PCA rep and PCA relationship will be dropped like a maggot infested carcass as soon as the 6 month milestone is passed.
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With no severance. That sucks. PCA didn't have an employee handbook that explained their severance policy?
 






Anonymous said:
With no severance. That sucks. PCA didn't have an employee handbook that explained their severance policy?
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Do you really think the employee handbook of any company has a policy detailing what employees severance will be if/when the company is sold out and shut down? You really think that happens anywhere?

The Cytotechs that were loyal to PCA for so long were cast aside like refuge, some with no notice. Shame on Pearson and the rest if his crew! They have no morals!
 






How many cytotechs were employed at PCA? Weren't some offered a chance to go to Birmingham? The cytotech job market is dead so many will have to find a new career.

Don't ever work for a lab owned by pathologists. They will sell out and pocket the money, throwing techs under the bus. The writing is on the wall for independent path labs. They have NO future. The field of cytopathology also has no future.
 






Anonymous said:
How many cytotechs were employed at PCA? Weren't some offered a chance to go to Birmingham? The cytotech job market is dead so many will have to find a new career.

Don't ever work for a lab owned by pathologists. They will sell out and pocket the money, throwing techs under the bus. The writing is on the wall for independent path labs. They have NO future. The field of cytopathology also has no future.
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They were not offered a viable option to work in Birmingham..
 






I know for a fact that at least one now works in Birmingham. So you are saying no one else was offered a position there?

I feel bad for them cause the field is dead and there are NO jobs. Real slimeball of the paths. Hope they enjoy their trips to europe and exhanged students that some have living with them.
 






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I know for a fact that at least one now works in Birmingham. So you are saying no one else was offered a position there?

I feel bad for them cause the field is dead and there are NO jobs. Real slimeball of the paths. Hope they enjoy their trips to europe and exhanged students that some have living with them.
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I consider a "viable" option to be a relo package that keeps you from going in debt to make the move. So no, I don't think so.
 






It's not the company's responsibility to pay for all that. If they offered some a job and they didn't take, they were stupid. They wont be finding another cytology job in the area. You go where the jobs are in cytology.
 






Anonymous said:
It's not the company's responsibility to pay for all that. If they offered some a job and they didn't take, they were stupid. They wont be finding another cytology job in the area. You go where the jobs are in cytology.
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Moving expenses and referral bonuses are not unusual. The lab is just taking advantage of the job market. Sooner or later the pendulum will swing back the other way and what goes around will come around.
 






The pendulum wont be swinging back the other way for cytotechs. The field is done. There won't be a good job market for that profession ever again. Go listen to Chicago's "Old Days" song.
 






Anonymous said:
It's not the company's responsibility to pay for all that. If they offered some a job and they didn't take, they were stupid. They wont be finding another cytology job in the area. You go where the jobs are in cytology.
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Who wants to dish out tens of thousands of dollars, sell a home and uproot a family to relocate for a job with a shitty lab like labcorp?
 






They should have known better than own a home and work as a cytotech to begin with. You rent an apartment with a job like that.

Good point though, why move to work for labcorp? LOL. Be better off just learning a new trade and moving on.
 






Anonymous said:
They should have n better than own a home and work as a cytotech to begin with. You rent an apartment with a job like that.

Good point though, why move to work for labcorp? LOL. Be better off just learning a new trade and moving on.
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Are you serious? I have had this job for years and never had to move before. I have a home and family and built up equity. If I were in a shitty sales job like you, I'd surely have live in an apartment, hater.
 


















Not sure if anyone is monitoring this thread anymore, but now that I know PCA is owned by LabCorp, it explains why they tried to double bill me. When I caught the bogus invoice I called, asking for an explanation. They acknowledged that the invoice was inaccurate and blamed BCBST, the usual bogeyman. When I asked when PCA was going to alert me that the bill was incorrect and did not need to be paid, "Kathy" there said, "We're informing you now." They don't even pretend that they're not going to rob you.
 






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