bye bye jorb

Well, for the first time in 4 years, I only have one job: my full-time one teaching.

I am not employed by the lab at the hospital anymore.


Let me tell you the story...


I was scheduled to work on Sat, Dec 20th, after a 2 month hiatus. The reason I had not worked in so long was because no one would switch with me so that I could have off on my honeymoon. So, I just took off. It sucked to not work in so long, but what can you do?

My boss, who works 3rd, came in a bit early that night and came up to me as I was looking over the schedule for the next few weeks. I was not on it, which was not all that shocking considering that she has often forgotten to include me. I jokingly ask if she forgot about me and why I was not on the schedule.

She gives me a "yeaaaaaaaaahhhhh, I was meaning to talk to you about that."

Long story short: the lab super wants someone to work every other weekend, sat and sun, because she is worried about people keeping up competency in the labs.

She follows up with, "if you do not want to work Christmas Eve, I will work it for you."

So....... am I fired, here??? I ask her what I can do and mention to her that perhaps I can split the shift with K, who would also be pushed out by this. She says I can put in my application for the position online.

Okaaaay. I put it in that Tuesday because I really enjoy working at the hospital and do not want to lose my job.

I work Christmas Eve.

I hear nothing. I email her twice. Finally she responds the day after New Years and says sorry, someone from Chem took the position, she got in her app before I did.



And after that, I hear nothing. WTF?!

Mind you, I have worked at this hospital for 5 years and have been in good standing the entire time. Yet, this was how they "let me go". I wrote to her two more times asking about my paycheck, with no response. I then wrote a very nice letter to both her and the lab super letting them know, nicely, that I was disgusted that they would treat an employee this way. You would think I at least deserved a phone call, let alone a face to face conversation.


Last week, I stopped in to pick up my final two paychecks. I did not get a Christmas card and $30. Or maybe I did, and my boss took it, who knows? She would not respond when I asked her about it. Anyway, I stopped in to see a friend who has been working with me since the beginning. I tell her what is going on. She tells me that she knew that K and the other lady from chem are actually splitting the position, and she has known about it for about a month.

Again... how can you treat good employees like this???

So I make sure she knows my story, because I know she will tell everyone. But how frustrating!!! Bottom line: they lied to me. I was led to believe that they wanted someone to fill the position and that I could actually do that, but instead they knew these two people were splitting the position and had put in weeks ago. What bs!

I had also gone down to HR to ask about my 403b roll-over and they told me that my paperwork had not been processed yet. This was 3 weeks after I had been told I did not have a job anymore. So, I wrote to the lab super again and nicely asked if she had a time frame for putting in my paperwork. At that time, I also asked her for a letter of reference.

Three days after that, I tried to log in to my email to check if she had responded and I could not get in. I guess they processed my paperwork. Awesome.



Anyway, I am overall very very disappointed with the way they treated me. I mean, Sat and Sun nights second shift are NOT desirable positions, and I stuck by them when they needed someone to work. Its incredibly frustrating to me that I am to just fade into the background like I never worked there in the first place.

I told them in a few emails to email my personal address if another position came up, but I dont know that they will after I told them honestly that they handled the whole thing pretty awfully. Its just really sad. I was pretty upset about the whole thing and I will admit to tears...

But overall, I am trying to think of it positively.


Its nice that I do not have to work Sats. Its nice that I have more time in general. I like that freedom. I hope that its just cosmically clearing my schedule for better things. Because I do not have this job, I am able to sing with Project this summer and I do not have to miss Reverb rehearsals.

Really, I am just hoping this turns out to be for good. I mean, I know it is, in my heart, but it still seems pretty sucky right now. Perhaps it is just opening my life up for bigger and better things. Let's hope!