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Hi, I saw a service rep position advertised for Lincare on Monster .com and was wondering what it is like to work for this company? Is the pay good? How about benefits? Thanks for any input...
 




I spent 5 great years right out of college at Lincare in the mid 90's. Began as a sales rep then became a branch manager. My last year worked under the V.P. of Marketing launching the I.V. Division. Great company where you can climb as high as your ambition will take you. To be fair the pay is fairly low as the prior poster says, but the personal growth and skill sets learned enabled me to easily transition into the Pharma industry where my total compensation package 13 years later is well over 150k. The CEO of Lincare when I was there began his career at Lincare as a service tech right out of High School and worked his way to the top with out ever getting his degree.
 


Horrible place to work. The pay is extremely low, the benefits are shit. You can make more money working at McDonalds. I quit because of those reasons. I will never go back there again. Everyone is out to back stab so they can get ahead and push you down in the meantime. They don't let the sales reps have laptops or external email or company phones. I don't think they are going to survive much longer considering all medical records are going electronic as of next year. I would not be surprised if they go out of business in the next few years from lack of keeping up in the electronic world.
 


Any Lincare employees out there that feel they were treated unfairly, please respond.

We are looking for people in the Utah/Colorado region, but anyone in the country!!! We have an attorney on retainer.

If you feel you were harassed, bullied, feel you were forced to quit for any reason, made to perform specific duties not in your description, and even duties your not qualified for, terminated without merit, terminated after being put on their "action plan" even after improvement, etc. please file a complaint with the EEOC. The EEOC is bombarded with complaints and may not look into yours alone. However, if several people file legitimate complaints, then they will stand up and take notice.

Please be sure your complaint is a legitimate one.
 


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I spent 5 great years right out of college at Lincare in the mid 90's. Began as a sales rep then became a branch manager. My last year worked under the V.P. of Marketing launching the I.V. Division. Great company where you can climb as high as your ambition will take you. To be fair the pay is fairly low as the prior poster says, but the personal growth and skill sets learned enabled me to easily transition into the Pharma industry where my total compensation package 13 years later is well over 150k. The CEO of Lincare when I was there began his career at Lincare as a service tech right out of High School and worked his way to the top with out ever getting his degree.
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I agree with the above. The pay is low but it is a good place to work. I, too, moved up very quickly - from SR to Center Manager to District Manager. Unfortuanatly, someone else dangled the carrot and I took it or I would still be there today.
 




I work in the Lynchburg, VA area and this place s*cks. The dsm little joey is a moron. Plus a new co opened a few years ago and getting a lot of the new business. I will leave when something better comes along....good grief what a loser company!
 












Every bad word written about Lincare is true! Its easily the worst place you could ever work.
Pay sucks training is a joke, sales training QP3 is given by some fat worthless bitch who has never sold a single E tank in her worthless life. The pay is a joke, your never see a cent in commission. Center managers, AM's DM's RM have to be the worst managers on the planet. The three stooges who run Lincare, self serving fools. Never work for or use Lincare.As hard as try I can’t think of one good thin about Lincare.
 




I have had my problems working for Lincare, as anyone has had with any compnay, but on the whole Lincare has been a good place to work. I started in 2000 and worked the only service rep for 3 1/2 years taking care of up to 400 O2 patients, I left the company in 2004. I worked for two other DME companies for the next 7 years, all the while my CM at Lincare was asking me to come back. I decided to in 2010 and came back as senior service rep. I got some flack for coming back ahead of some of the other service reps who had been there for sometime and for also being a woman in charge of the drivers, who were male. But, when I needed to move out of state I was able to transfer to another Lincare right where I wanted to be. Now I have become a CSR making more than I could at any other DME company around. Working for Lincare has had it's ups and downs, BUT the company will work for you if you work for it, wholeheartedly not thinking that you are owed something for nothing!
 


I currently work for Lincare as Sales Rep. Not happy at all after 6 months. No manager, the CSR is as new as I am, as well as the service technician. It has felt like a free for all and the money isn't worth it. All the promised commissions are never seen. When painting the picture of the position, they fail to tell you that in all that commission they say you can make, their sister companie's have sales reps that work your offices as well and then you end up doing the work for the pt and the cmn and do not get the commission, the other sales rep across the country who does nothing but make phone calls gets it! In this particuliar area, the right people are not in place to make Lincare a success against the other competitors. They make promises they don't keep to physicians and patients, and it ruins the sales rep image. It is a very high stress job with little resove to the stressors, no matter your efforts. Lincare is obviously a success as a whole and has plenty of room for growth and advancement, if you find yourseslf under the right managers. Unfortunately, I did not have the good fortune of a quality manager. Lincare has amazing training and I always feel recharged after trainings and enjoy them but it quickly is squashed when returning to the repeat stress and lack of resolve in paperwork. It has felt like a real free for all for the last 4 months and it is as if upper management is not interested in cleaning up this center. I do hate that I will not be able to pursue the opportunities that I thought I saw in Lincare, especially due to the lack of having the right people in the right places to see the potential in myself. Some make it, some don't at Lincare.... obviously. I am not so much a disgruntled employee as I am dissappointed.... Ya win some and ya lose some, right???
 




Jewell reported to his Manager, Doug McGraw, that MacKenzie was forging signatures and backdating documents. (Id. ¶ 29.) Instead of stopping MacKenzie from continuing to forge client signatures and backdate documents, which were submitted to the government for reimbursement, McGraw told MacKenzie that Jewell had reported this conduct. (Id. ¶ 30-32.) After learning that Jewell had told McGraw about his forging signatures and backdating documents, MacKenzie began yelling at Jewell, calling Jewell names and making fun of Jewell. (Id. ¶ 33, 34.) On one occasion, MacKenzie threw a heavy regulator at Jewell, which missed
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him. (Id. ¶ 35, 36.) Jewell reported MacKenzie’s behavior to McGraw, but McGraw failed to respond and MacKenzie’s disrespectful behavior continued. (Id. ¶ 38, 39.) In October 2009, Jewell again reported to McGraw that MacKenzie was continuing to forge client signatures and backdate documents. (Id. ¶ 40.) During this conversation McGraw told Jewell that he had confronted MacKenzie about Jewell’s allegations and warned MacKenzie against forging client signatures and backdating documents in the future. (Id. ¶ 42.) McGraw also told Jewell that he did not want to know about any forging of signatures or backdating of documents and that the whole office would be shut down and all employees would lose their jobs if word got out. (Id. ¶ 44, 45.)
On November 16, 2009, Jewell was called into a meeting with McGraw and MacKenzie and was told that he was being terminated due to failure to complete his Hazardous Material (“Haz Mat”) paperwork for the last day he had worked. Id. ¶ 48, 49. Jewell in fact had completed his Haz Mat paperwork. Id. ¶ 50. Jewell alleges he was terminated because he had reported to McGraw that MacKenzie had forged client signatures and backdated documents. Id. ¶ 51, 52, 55-59.
On May 12, 2011, Jewell filed the pending suit against his former employer, Lincare, Inc., alleging violations of the federal False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. § 3730(h) (Count I), and the Maine Human Rights Act, 5 M.R.S.A. § 4551 et seq., and the Maine Whistleblowers’ Protection Act, 26 M.R.S.A. § 831 et seq. (Count II).
 





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