Stay or go...

whitney_03 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-16-2007, 11:44 AM

So I'm really considering a job change. I've only been at my current job for like 7 months but I'm starting to see why they have such a high turnover rate, the benefits are so expensive and they treat their employees like crap. Like, they tell you in your interview you may have to work mandatory overtime but they don't say it's like 2-3 times a frickin week. During high census (lots of patients) I've had weeks where I worked over 100 hours. Not by choice. It's like an act of God to take time off. I have almost 80 hours of vacation time but can never take any of it because they never approve paid time off days. I didn't get Thanksgiving approved and I work Christmas so basically I get to spend the holidays at work, at my bf's parents or by myself...gay. Not to mention that when I switched to days they failed to ask me when I could work and just made a schedule which included days I had class. But I was the one who had to find replacements for those days instead of them changing the schedule? Their attitude was basically 'either find a replacement or skip class'. Which is not cool.
Anyways where I used to work, at the other hospital in MedRecords, is hiring CNA's right now and they pay better, have way cheaper benefits and they seem to appreciate their employees more. I don't know whether I should go back to them or just stick it out?

Static · 10-16-2007, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by whitney_03

So I'm really considering a job change. I've only been at my current job for like 7 months but I'm starting to see why they have such a high turnover rate, the benefits are so expensive and they treat their employees like crap. Like, they tell you in your interview you may have to work mandatory overtime but they don't say it's like 2-3 times a frickin week. During high census (lots of patients) I've had weeks where I worked over 100 hours. Not by choice. It's like an act of God to take time off. I have almost 80 hours of vacation time but can never take any of it because they never approve paid time off days. I didn't get Thanksgiving approved and I work Christmas so basically I get to spend the holidays at work, at my bf's parents or by myself...gay. Not to mention that when I switched to days they failed to ask me when I could work and just made a schedule which included days I had class. But I was the one who had to find replacements for those days instead of them changing the schedule? Their attitude was basically 'either find a replacement or skip class'. Which is not cool.

Anyways where I used to work, at the other hospital in MedRecords, is hiring CNA's right now and they pay better, have way cheaper benefits and they seem to appreciate their employees more. I don't know whether I should go back to them or just stick it out?

so basically, all negatives for your current job, all positives for your former job. Uhh, go back to your former job, it sounds like it suits your needs a lot better, and personally, your current job sounds like a bunch of pricks anyway.

**Ginevra** · 10-17-2007, 12:02 AM

Why'd you leave your former job?

Ol' Patty · 10-17-2007, 12:07 AM

F that place. Don't settle for a job your not happy with and treats you like shit. There is always a place out there that will treat you respectably and properly. Even if you don't go back to your former job, find somewhere else. From how it seems, your current employers are just going to try and find more and more ways of fucking you over.

tyrannosaurusjr · 10-17-2007, 01:54 AM

Wait a minute, are you basically saying that everything about the job you left for this job is better than the one you have right now, and the better one is hiring back? Is there any other choice, unless you dig on being treated like shit? Switch, switch, switch!

whitney_03 · 10-17-2007, 01:57 PM

Thanks for the advice guys. I'm thinking I will stick it out until the new schedule comes out next week, if they scheduled me for days I have class again or didn't give me Thanksgiving off, I'm out of there I think!

I left my former employer because I wanted to work in mental health. Before I was a Medical Records clerk. But the hospital I used to work for as a Med Rec clerk are hiring CNA's for post-op and psych.

I left Medical Records because my coworkers had no respect for other people's privacy and it was a lawsuit/jailtime situation. If you violate HIPAA, you can for sure get sued AND go to jail for quite some time.
Which they were doing...hourly. It is honestly so bad I refuse to go to the doctor at that hospital until they fix it because I don't want my chart read aloud.

whitney_03 · 10-30-2007, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by tyrannosaurusjr

Wait a minute, are you basically saying that everything about the job you left for this job is better than the one you have right now, and the better one is hiring back? Is there any other choice, unless you dig on being treated like shit? Switch, switch, switch!

I just applied for 3 different CNA positions. I'm tired of their crap man.
Took a lot of thought but I decided I'm young and I don't need to stick around some shitty place that's probably going to be going down legally soon...maybe.

**Ginevra** · 10-30-2007, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by whitney_03

I just applied for 3 different CNA positions. I'm tired of their crap man.
Took a lot of thought but I decided I'm young and I don't need to stick around some shitty place that's probably going to be going down legally soon...maybe.

Turn them in. You don't do it, and not informing someone might put some fault at your door if they get caught, I don't know about that part though. And then you should look good to other companies because you don't put up with that or hide it for people.