CCS Medical

"misled in hiring" is a huge understatement.

 

I worked at CCS for a couple years as an AE. Terrible experience! The company seemed to be in distress all the time. There was no leadership. It was the weirdest place I have ever worked at. Once you get on with a solid company that has has it together you will realize CCS Medical is a disfunctional place to be.

 

Does anyone here have any experience working from their DENVER office for inside or outside sales?
How does this location compare to others?
What is the earning potential?
How are the managers?

 

Working as an AE in Denver is not worth it. Working as an outside AE in Denver is not worth it x 10!! If you are an inside "AE" then you are pretty much an order taker. That's it plain and simple. They call it an "AE" but it's a BS tag. If you are outside, you better hope they have readjusted the wound clinics. All but one of the "big ones" were given to the inside AE. In order to make any money, you really have to have at least two of the biggest Wound clinics in the state. They may have figured this out and adjusted the territory. CCS was absolutely terrible a while back. The original inside manager was a tool. The AE's would basically count and bet on how many times he would say "okay" during a meeting okay. Okay, and the outside Regional Manager was definately one of those people who you would say the sky is blue and he would say it's black. It was a very odd place.

 

Not so funny but I had the same thing happen with unemployment. I won! Document everything so when they come back and try and screw you over will have your ducks in a row. Simply a shitty company.

 

Re: CCS Medical - Experience Working in Denver Post..

To the person inquiring about working in Denver. I think you already work in Denver or manage the Denver territory and I believe I know who you are. You are are just fishing for info. You should be getting off your fat ass and managing and not wasting company time d-bag!

 

Atlanta/Lawrenceville office, worked 4 years at this company and fired for "performance and productivity issues". Don't care, just glad I'm no longer working there. I heard more people are being fired for the same reason and being replaced with temps.

 

Was contacted by a recruiter about a Medical Supply Liaison position (looks like it deals primarily with the wound care division). Can anyone give me any information about salary, job requirements, current management style (since I see that several key personnel have been let go), etc?

Also, any information about their interview process would also be greatly appreciated.

 

Regarding the Medical Supply position. I think but am not 100% that the position you are viewing is a Medical Supply Specialist position. You will be posted at a wound clinic and supply patients as they exit the facility. There are a few post on the first or second pages that aren't very positive about CCS Medical. I was there for a while and it truly was not a good fit. They had the worst management I have ever seen in a company. From being misled at hiring to very poor ratings in the ethics department CCS was a disaster. I believe they recently came out of Chapter 11. If you have other options then follow those. If not you are taking a big career risk. Or, look at it as experience on the resume...What state was this for? Good luck.

 

ccs medical signed bankruptcy not to many years ago. I worked for them for a while and then left for another position. But while i was there in some ways it was the best job i ever had some it was the worst

 

I would personally not work for ccs medical again, even their diabetes department. They do not have patients in mind it is a matter of how much sales you can do for the company no matter what happens to the patient. I worked for them. I would not work for them again

 

You are right, they don't have patients in mind, just read some of the complaints about them on diabetes message boards. They bilk Medicare for as much as they can get. They fill supply orders with extra stuff that people don't order just to run up the bills. Next year when the Medicare DME ruling goes nationwide, they will be out of business.

 

True, true. Run! don't walk get AWAY from this co. The current Management staff is horrible and will fire you and falsify reasons. I worked there for many, many years I too have been fired for bogus reasons.

 

CCS MEDICAL IS VERY DISFUNCTIONAL....I SO AGREE WITH THE WRITER OF THAT QUOTE.....I HAVE NEVER WORKED FOR A COMPANY AS THIS......PAY BACK IS A B I T C H

 

One sign of better economic times is when more people start finding jobs. Another is when they feel confident enough to quit them.

More people quit their jobs in the past three months than were laid off — a sharp reversal after 15 straight months in which layoffs exceeded voluntary departures, suggesting the job market is finally thawing.

Some of the quitters are leaving for new jobs. Others have no firm offers. But their newfound confidence about landing work is itself evidence of more hiring and a strengthening economy.

"There is a century's worth of evidence that bears out this view that quits rise and layoffs fall as the job market improves," said Steven Davis, an economist at the University of Chicago.

Still, the number of people quitting their jobs is nowhere near what it was before the recession. Economists expect the improvement in the job market to be fitful, rather than consistent. In May, for example, private employers added only 41,000 net jobs after adding 218,000 in April.

Yet the long term trend points to an improving job market. The economy has created a net 982,000 jobs this year after a recession that wiped out more than 8 million of them.

The government said Tuesday that the number of people quitting rose in April to nearly 2 million. That was the most in more than a year and an increase of nearly 12% since January. That compares with 1.75 million people who were laid off in April, the fewest since January 2007, before the recession.

During the depths of the recession, workers were hesitant to quit — and not only because jobs were scarce. Even if they found a new job, some feared that accepting it would leave them vulnerable to a layoff. At many companies, layoffs follow a simple formula: last hired, first fired.

Many clung to their jobs out of fear, said David Adams, vice president of training at Adecco, a national staffing agency. When Adecco tried to recruit workers to fill open positions, it frequently ran into the same obstacle:few workers felt like betting on a new job that might soon disappear.

Not so much any more. Adecco is seeing more employed workers seeking interviews, rather than laid off workers searching for a lifeline.

"The hangover is kind of over," Adams said. "It's really starting to move toward a market where the employee can have a lot more confidence making a move."

That's why Katie Charland just quit her job at a parenting magazine in Phoenix to take a position with a nonprofit that supplies children's educational programs.

Charland, 27, says the position is a dream job. Still, it carries a cost: she's abandoning seniority at her old job. But she thinks the economy is expanding enough that her company will be able to attract state and corporate funding.

"I don't see leaving my current job to pursue this as a risk," Charland says. "I do feel like the economy is getting better, and there's more opportunity out there."

Such optimism was rare in 2008 and 2009, when employers cut more than 8 million jobs, sending the unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 10.1%. The number of people who quit fell 40% to 1.72 million in September 2009. That was the fewest since the government began tracking the data in 2000. It was down from nearly 2.9 million in December 2007, when the recession began.

Studies have shown that worker morale fell during the recession. Productivity rose as companies squeezed more work out of their employees. Overworked employees may leave their jobs at first chance.

"There is going to be a mass exodus of the top performers as the economy starts to turn around," says Razor Suleman, a consultant who helps companies retain their best workers.

About 25% of companies' top performers said they plan to leave their current job within a year, according to a survey published in the May edition of the Harvard Business Review. By contrast, in 2006, just 10% planned to leave their jobs within a year. The survey questioned 20,000 workers who were identified by their employers as "high potential."

Companies retained those workers during the recession but heaped more work on them, said Jean Martin, the study's co-author and executive director of the Corporate Executive Board's Corporate Leadership Council in Washington. At the same time, employers cut back on awards and bonuses, she said.

Now, top performers at some companies are heading for the exits as hiring picks up. It means companies will feel more pressure to retain them.

"These rising stars know what they're worth," Martin said. "They feel somewhat neglected."

Phil Edelstein can attest to that. He spent two years on his first job at an advertising agency gaining more responsibility but no pay raises.

Edelstein, 25, worked for an agency in Philadelphia that was stretching its budget as clients cut back their spending. After researching clients' brand names and marketing strategies, he moved on to directing study projects.

Bosses kept promising a pay raise commensurate with his workload. It never came.

"There's this intense frustration that comes with that, because you basically feel like you have no control over how much money you're making and how much work you do," he said.

Edelstein hung tight through 2009 as the economy shed jobs. But this year he began sending out resumes to other ad agencies. Then a prospective client called. The CEO of a Colorado-based tea maker needed a marketing director. Edelstein didn't need long to say yes.

"It felt good, because I was initiating the change," he said.

More people are now taking a leap that few dared just a few months ago: quitting without a new job waiting. The improving economy has given employees confidence to quit without having another job waiting.

Robert Dixon is among them. He was consulting with companies doing business in China, helping them establish supply chains with factories there. But he tired of spending weeks at a time away from his wife in Massachusetts. So in May he quit — without a backup plan.

"Somebody the other day said to me I was the first person they'd met who quit a good-paying job without another one to go to," Dixon said. "I know there are other companies out there. I just need to find them."

 

CCS Medical is a waste of my time and my money. They have horrible customer service, messed up system process as far as re-ordering is concerned, inconsistencies in the delivery of services. I am so happy I have changed providers. If customers who paid on time get this kind of services, I wander how they treat customers who are delayed in their payments? You are not looking to empower customers; you are focused on empowering your own pockets. Your company will go under.

 

Was curious if anyone knows who the last Director of Sales was with CCS Medical and if he/she happened to get fired?

 

Last DOS was Gene Quigey. Another good guy who had the rug pulled out from under him along with Pat Hale, Dave Anderson, and Eric Hymes during the layoffs in September. He was the only one who ever fought for the sales team. This company continues to downsize accross the board. I worked there for two years and left last year - total waste of two years. They treate people like trash and it is without a doubt the worst run company in the industry.

 

Last DOS was Gene Quigey. Another good guy who had the rug pulled out from under him along with Pat Hale, Dave Anderson, and Eric Hymes during the layoffs in September. He was the only one who ever fought for the sales team. This company continues to downsize accross the board. I worked there for two years and left last year - total waste of two years. They treate people like trash and it is without a doubt the worst run company in the industry.

 

Does anyone know what happened John Landiss? Did he go down with the ship? He was a manager based out of Denver I think. Lots of insightful comments here. I only lasted a year. It was a very odd place. I learned one BIG lesson. Do your research. I will never work for a place like this again. Last I heard they were in Chapter 11. Did they recover?