Pros
I enjoy the shops surrounding our office. Window-shopping during lunch helps me not bash my face in from the rays of stupidity that this company burns me with every day.
Cons
I have NEVER worked for such an anti-employee company in my life. If I'd have known the stress I'd endure from working for PDS, I would have declined their offer. As many other employees and former employees have stated, there is NO work/life balance whatsoever. All of the Office Managers are terribly overworked and underpaid. Actually, this is the case for ALL PDS employees. I know of an OM who got a bladder infection because she wouldn't get up to use the restroom out of fear that it would cut into her work time. The Regional Managers are extremely uneducated, and have no communication skills. I believe the reason HR and the RM's do not try to resolve personnel issues is because they are poorly educated and thus do not comprehend. Our RM is a blithering idiot. I was disheartened to find this out upon my first conversation with her. I actually thought she was messing with me when she told me she was a Regional. If schedules are "light", your hours get cut. They typically start lower-level employees off as part-time with full-time hours. They try to keep the situation such (unless you make a huge stink) so as not to have to give full-time benefits. Another trick they've mastered is making lower-level employees take "extended lunches". This enables them to keep employees later in the evening when the schedules are busier, while avoiding overtime pay. Our office is constantly low or completely out of supplies. Still, our Back Office Lead gets an earful daily for going over our measly, pathetic budget. We were told that more supplies and better tools would be purchased once we started making more money. What a catch that is! How can an office succeed without the proper instruments? Besides the obvious personnel issues, PDS consistently lies to both patients and insurance companies. I've seen many fraudulent acts carried out at several different locations. Dentists loathe working for the company as well. I couldn't be more upset with myself for allowing Pacific Dental Scammers to take up so much of my life. I'll be letting all of my friends, family, and community know to stay away from these offices. Oh yeah, Stephen Thorne is a tool. I wonder if he's present enough to know that he's the laughingstock of the dental world...
