University of New England - Portland Campus for the Health Sciences — Attraction in Portland

Let me start this is for anyone applying to work here. The student work done at the dental school is fantastic and this is not against the services the school provides.

I worked over at UNE for 3 years. Upon being hired they give you the regular lies " we promote from within" " we provide free school for your spouse and children" a lot of those key justifications so they don't have to pay you a proper working wage. Now. Not saying that those things are bad. But they reserve the right to deny you the education. Which happens more often than not and instead of promoting from with in they will ask you to do the job to prove yourself even if it requires a license you don't have and pay you a massively lower rate with no rate change options and then penalize you for messing up something you aren't properly trained in. Facilities management there will completely gaslight you into believing you're responsible for them trying to save a nickel.

Lets move on. Jim Irwin. The VP of facilities blamed student numbers being lower because of facilities not smiling enough at students. As some one who has worked in facilities for 15 years I can tell you. You don't randomly smile at students unless you're working on something for them. As a massive double standard because of he said this to a group of woman he would be in HR but since he said this to a group of men it's not offensive. Right?

Let's talk about the jail mentality of titles. Are you a Electrician? Are you a Steam Engineer? Guess what you aren't here and that's how they get away with paying you way less than what you're worth. It's a classic outsourcing plot created to save the company money while making the worker run around in circles. They have 3 levels of mechanics there that fall into a financial category a maintenance technician 1 -17$ to 20$, a maintenance technician 2 23$-27$ and a 3 -32-36$. How much does a master electrician make on average in the state of Maine? 45+ how much does a steam engineer make in Maine on average up to 58 a hour. Well not here folks. Here you're a maintenance technician and you only make that much. But why? Because you're expected to do " other jobs required" so you've worked 10 plus years to get your license in a form of work. But since you're shoveling sometimes we're only paying you this much. This is a ploy to attract desperate and/or unqualified workers. If you have spent your life trying to work for yourself or your family this is not a place you should go.

Health insurance - 3 years there. 3 different plans. How are you supposed to be able to afford medications for your self and your family when they keep changing plans with out informing you or asking for consent. There's not much to say about this experience other than. It just makes it hard for the worker because in June you need to reauthorize every prescription again.

Shop quality. As a maintenance technician you need a functional shop whether you're a carpenter, electrician or a plumber( side note UNE has not had a licensed plumber on site for almost 8 years in the Portland campus and refused to send anyone up from Biddeford campus to help because they were overwhelmed with work. ) so you would think a shop with ventilation, walls that aren't crumbling from water damage something bigger than a 15 by 15 room for 9 people, a place to eat lunch that isn't the same place where people are using a sanding machine, floor drains that don't produce random oil back ups. You know basic stuff. Well if you work at UNE you'll have all that and more. Oh and don't leave a coffee out. Or the cleaners will take it and bring it home and don't leave chocolate or chips in a bag or the mice will eat it or a random bird that has gotten through a broken window. When asking for improvements. The response is it's a temporary place. The state of Maine states a temporary place is between 3 and 8 months. Guess what. Those workers are going on two years in...

Not accepting new patients until second week of January, discriminated is what it sounded like to me. Participant Questions are you there?

You Yes, ma'am

Participant OK, so are you looking for in-depth dental treatment? Are you looking for maintenance and cleaning?

You It would be probably a maintenance and cleaning but more in depth

Participant OK

You They would all kind of

Participant Do you think you have some

You depends. I am looking for

Participant cavities?

You scaling and as well as just a general clean.

Participant OK, so when I asked you about in-depth treatment what I mean is if you have him If you're needing dentures if you're needing fillings to be

You Oh no, no no not none of those at the moment

Participant done OK, OK so you've reached the oral health center and what we do here is we do cleanings but we also do fillings. We do periodontal endodontics here. We do everything here if you're

You OK

Participant looking for. Just maintenance right now and cleaning I would refer you to our dental hygiene clinic and I can try and connect you there. I'll give you the phone number all they do is cleanings and there. They take main care for insurance otherwise all the cleanings are about well let's see. I can look it up right now. I printed some of

You I would give me a general idea of how much it would

Participant that.

You be

Participant Yeah, they're much more reasonable than we are. That's why I am referring you there. I don't know. Do you have dental insurance?

You No ma'am

Participant So I would suggest you call our dental hygiene clinic they can get you in much faster than we can

You OK

Participant because it would be at least three years before any treatment would be started and if you don't need any treatment You're just best to go over there I will tell you that if they find something that needs attention, they will refer you to us in the

You OK

Participant referral they give you is for any dental office. It's not just for us now is a good time if you want to establish yourself as a patient here, but you would have to go through the process, which is at least three appointments before a cleaning would be done

You OK

Participant so this way you can call the dental hygiene clinic and they'll do a cleaning if there is something like if you need a Filling. They'll let you know and the

You OK

Participant prices for an adult cleaning a basic one is $36

You OK

Participant All right and they do they do ceilings over there. They do x-rays like we do here they do periodontal maintenance. They do quadrant scaling and they're $36 there.

You OK, I appreciate it.

Participant OK, we're here. They're

You Thank you very much.

Participant 123 pardon me.

You I said thank you very much. I do appreciate it.

Participant Oh yeah, of course I can try and connect you over there. However, if the call drops the direct number for you to call them is 22 1-49

You Yes

Participant 00 OK

You OK, thank you very much. What's your name again?

Participant My name is Elaine OK and I'll send you over.

You OK, thank you very much, Elaine yes

Participant OK you're welcome. You have a nice day and thank you for calling.

You You too

Participant OK, so let's see 49 00. I'm transferring right now. Thank you for calling University of New England dental hygiene clinic if you would like to schedule an appointment please press one if you were calling to cancel an appointment please press two for all other inquiries. Please stay on the line and your call will be transferred.

You I don't know if you want me to continue I'm calling to get a

Participant You need dental hygiene

You Yes, hello I'm looking to get some

Participant Hi

You information about becoming a new patient and getting a generalized basic cleaning

Participant So right now we aren't booking any more new patients for this semester You would have to call back to get in January to get a new...

DO NOT USE their oral health center!! They banned us in 2022 for cancelling due to covid/being around someone who did after only a couple times, never told us until 3 years later when making appts and still holding a grudge!! They created this policy, ban us, then proceed to tell us we don’t have the right to be upset or angry!!! I guess you should all be going to your appointments when sick with covid because if you don’t and end up canceling or being sent home by the damn staff if you do try, you end up banned!!! Just disgusting !!! Considering how irresponsible and unfair that is, making patients feel like they have to choose between their health and getting banned, I wouldn’t trust how safe it is if you are a high risk patient with immune issues if they are making patients feel like they have to lie to get their teeth looked at or else! Go to a real dentist ! The staff also guarantees a 3 day response time yet when we send emails and calls over the course of a month, they get ignored yet they got the nerve when they do pick up the phone to say we are being too difficult and dismiss us even more!...