DISGUSTING TREATMENT. Medical negligence, broken equipment, and staff harassing donors…read more
I am absolutely sick to my stomach and infuriated by this location. I have been a loyal donor here since December and it was genuinely my favorite thing to do. This week, the sheer technical incompetence, broken equipment, and toxic management turned it into the worst, most humiliating experience of my life. I left this center crying in my car.
On Wednesday, an associate named Jimena deferred me over an iron reading. I spent 24 hours correcting my nutrition, only to return on Thursday and get deferred again because an unbalanced, poorly calibrated center scale claimed I magically lost 6 pounds overnight--a total equipment error, proven by the fact that the very next morning I "gained" all 6 pounds back on a different scale when I successfully donated. Manager Marissa handled this with outright hostility, and she explicitly lied to me, stating that I may never be able to come back and donate again--intentionally twisting a temporary equipment issue into a permanent lifetime ban to scare me.
She then maliciously weaponized the digital notes system to lock my account on Friday over my footwear (platform shoes) just to force a supervisor review right before my work shift. They forced me to sit waiting in the hallway like a child, only for them to completely clear the flag and sit behind the counter without ever bothering to step out and tell me. I was left stranded waiting until I finally got fed up, approached the counter myself, and asked what was happening, only to be dismissively told they had already resolved it minutes prior without telling me. Once cleared of her petty trap, I successfully donated on Friday with an incredible 46% iron level.
Today (Sunday), I came back to finish my second donation, and Jimena screened my iron at an impossible 37%. A 9-point drop in 48 hours is medically impossible. My intuition was 100% right: Jimena directly violated clinical protocol by failing to wipe away the very first drop of blood from the prick, completely diluting my sample with tissue fluid. Looking back, she likely made this exact same training error on Wednesday. When I begged for a retake due to this obvious mistake, a supervisor named Sean coldly refused, dismissed my tears, and lectured me about his staff being "perfectly capable." To make matters worse, multiple employees here have continuously crossed boundaries by repeatedly demanding my Instagram and phone number after I have explicitly told them NO.
This center is a complete circus. You have untrained staff violating medical protocols, broken uncalibrated scales, power-tripping managers threatening permanent bans over water weight, and staff actively harassing female donors for social media. Upper corporate management needs to step in immediately and clean house.