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WDYT? (long, sorry!)
Irresponsible or warranted?
So, I quit my job. I didn't walk out or anything. I turned in my two week notice, and will suck it up until the 16th. But here's the back story:
When we moved, I started working in Lawton for the same "company" I was working for when we lived in OKC. That means a 1 hr commute each way. I am doing exactly.the.same.job I was doing here. But I took a $4/hr paycut because it's a different "facility" and they don't have the same payscale apparently. However, I kept all my benefits, seniority, etc because it is the same "company." (I'm using that, because it's hard w/healthcare to not give yourself away.) My boss decided a month ago that she is turning over the "administrative" portion of her job to another woman in our practice, we'll call her B. B happens to be the mother of one of our staff nurses. Administrative portion includes disciplinary action and the approval/denial of vacation/time off, among other things. This "company" has a very direct policy against a family member supervising their own family memeber. Not quite nepotism, but close. To counter-act this, they've assigned that one employee to another "administrative assistant" to handle all her paperwork.
B decided last week that one thing she wants to change is how vacation is alotted. This decision came after myself and one other nurse had to take emergency leave due to illness and emergencies w/our kids. She says we are "offenders" of the policy to ask off 2 wks in advance, but swears it's not due to the emergency leave. To my knowledge, I have only had one last minute request, and it was almost a week advance, and the other nurse only had one, and that was because she ended up having to have a partial hysterectomy because she has precancerous cervical cells! We are the "newest" additions to this facility.
B's solution to this problem is that from Jan forward, options for vacation will be based on seniority. I said awesome, because with my seniority from OKC facility, that makes me #3 in line. I know someone has to be first and someone has to be last, but dang it, I worked hard in OKC, and it's about time I get rewarded for it! The problem with that solution was that it put me before daughter dearest. When B found out that I had started before B Jr, I got "side-eyed." (I had to fight to not knock her teeth out!) Then 2 days later, she decided that the seniority will be based on facility seniority only. Pardone moi?!! Now I'm low-man on the pole... I was LIVID. This is only a few short days after she calls me into her office to tell me that me arriving AT my sched time of arrival is inappropriate, that I should be there no less than 10 min early. I drive an HOUR! And my kid cannot be dropped off before 0730. My show time is 9am. I can count on one hand how many times I have been more than 1 min late. Once was because I had a flat tire, once was because I got barfed on at drop off, and once was because I had to stop at the toll booth McDonalds because I was so sick I couldn't keep driving. Ever since I started there, it's been one thing after another. B Jr tried to get me fired for spending too much time pumping, since I was still BF'ing DS when I started.
So, I quit. I'm sick of being discounted. They were bad about it in OKC, and it's obviously a problem here. OKC tried to fire me while I was on maternity leave! So tell it to me straight ladies... Am I being a spoiled turd, or do you think I truly have grounds? I'm not sure why I'm feeling the need to be validated today, but humor me! Thanks... sorry this turned into a novel!
What do you mean that's the wrong side? Tastes great to me!
Re: WDYT? (long, sorry!)
Alright, there are some major illegal things going on there. First off, the breast pumping thing is a huge issue and second, do you all have an employee manual of some sort that states the vacation policy? Most companies require these now so this very thing does not happen (someone changing the policies based on their PMS). Does the manual state what time you should be at work?
I don't thing you are being a spoiled turd but I wouldn't quit a job without something else in the pipeline either. Its easy for me to judge given I am not in your shoes, I probably would have smacked that woman silly. I don't see what people get out of acting like that in the workplace.
I would be livid. Favoritism like that is unacceptable. I don't blame you one bit for leaving.
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