Post by flup on Nov 16, 2023 9:15:00 GMT -5
Wasted a grand on insufferable Austin this last week.
Flew down, after disembarking aircraft I get a voicemail--study cancelled, we've automatically givin you a new screening date for same study 1 month away.
An hour later at my hotel, I decline, find the next two available, cross my fingers, and get a new study screening, for the same day as my original! (for one that was previously booked solid) Wow right?
In brief, I screened within 2 days, checked in 4 after that, then was made a far Alternate.
....
So after a lot of various build ups to break you down--this. The place is like a detention facility. The food is fritos, fanta, peanut butter cookie, bowl of old beans, burger and lettuce, etc. for lunch e.g. Despite making good on all labs, etc, the doc, the coordinator put me in this way off alt status knowing I'm the only one from out of state in the group, which we chatted a bit about.
While there waiting hour dose the night before: headache, nausea, shoulder pain, toe pain, itchy ***, elbow inflammation...
Is this place f*cking haunted??
Lots a staff there look like highschoolers in oversized labcoats. I got the impression there was favoratism going on, not necessarily for returnees. Last I'd been there was during covid when they wanted us masked 24/7, YES, even while SLEEPING!! w a n95.
Wishy washy on info from phone interview through to exiting and payment. Supposedly I was entitled to some wallet card that gives me dosing preference that they have no clear name for, but that got bombed in all the "not my department, try this" BS.
I'm done with this place. I'd done about 10 studies over 20 years here, and since covid, especially this last one, I'm like H*ll No.
It used to be excessive blood draws, now it's just Trash. The bathroom is like prison. squadbay, cameras everywhere, soft mattresses, no staff but a cook maybe, occasionally mall cops walk through (all over the parking lot), then it's an ice cream social on dose day.
With my group, they eliminated alt 1 and particapant 1 before the evening was out! and the alt that got in missed his p*ssing timepoint and had jumpy ecgs. Does that make sense? To recruit, select best participants, then randomize, after 3 physicals before actual dosing. They take you down to your underwear at bag check! They tape your cameras, but ask for annonymous info on other facilities "to improve". what your f*cking fluctuating scalding hot water temperature in the prison shank shower? All you eggheads can't push the paper to find a plumber??
NEVER AGAIN!
Covance Dallas has burned me, WWCT Sant An has burned me, now this--Texas can suck a Schlong! F*ck that state.
Peace Out Billy
Flew down, after disembarking aircraft I get a voicemail--study cancelled, we've automatically givin you a new screening date for same study 1 month away.
An hour later at my hotel, I decline, find the next two available, cross my fingers, and get a new study screening, for the same day as my original! (for one that was previously booked solid) Wow right?
In brief, I screened within 2 days, checked in 4 after that, then was made a far Alternate.
....
So after a lot of various build ups to break you down--this. The place is like a detention facility. The food is fritos, fanta, peanut butter cookie, bowl of old beans, burger and lettuce, etc. for lunch e.g. Despite making good on all labs, etc, the doc, the coordinator put me in this way off alt status knowing I'm the only one from out of state in the group, which we chatted a bit about.
While there waiting hour dose the night before: headache, nausea, shoulder pain, toe pain, itchy ***, elbow inflammation...
Is this place f*cking haunted??
Lots a staff there look like highschoolers in oversized labcoats. I got the impression there was favoratism going on, not necessarily for returnees. Last I'd been there was during covid when they wanted us masked 24/7, YES, even while SLEEPING!! w a n95.
Wishy washy on info from phone interview through to exiting and payment. Supposedly I was entitled to some wallet card that gives me dosing preference that they have no clear name for, but that got bombed in all the "not my department, try this" BS.
I'm done with this place. I'd done about 10 studies over 20 years here, and since covid, especially this last one, I'm like H*ll No.
It used to be excessive blood draws, now it's just Trash. The bathroom is like prison. squadbay, cameras everywhere, soft mattresses, no staff but a cook maybe, occasionally mall cops walk through (all over the parking lot), then it's an ice cream social on dose day.
With my group, they eliminated alt 1 and particapant 1 before the evening was out! and the alt that got in missed his p*ssing timepoint and had jumpy ecgs. Does that make sense? To recruit, select best participants, then randomize, after 3 physicals before actual dosing. They take you down to your underwear at bag check! They tape your cameras, but ask for annonymous info on other facilities "to improve". what your f*cking fluctuating scalding hot water temperature in the prison shank shower? All you eggheads can't push the paper to find a plumber??
NEVER AGAIN!
Covance Dallas has burned me, WWCT Sant An has burned me, now this--Texas can suck a Schlong! F*ck that state.
Peace Out Billy