Browncoat Bar & Grill - In memory of the best bartender ever!

Ba business always drops off at the holidays when everyone gets busy with families and shopping and such

Oh sucks on the IBS Gee.. hope you feel better soon HUGS
Oh and thanks he is just gorgeous( just like his daddy)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Hey happy after Thanksgiving day.. hope none of you are out braving the shopping nightmare...


To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Originally posted by MsA:
Hey happy after Thanksgiving day.. hope none of you are out braving the shopping nightmare...

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I didn't have to but Rose sure did. She works at the local Walmart. She normally does overnight stocking so she doesn't have to deal with customers (Did that enough when she was a department manager)

Last night the store was open overnight and the company I work for provided extra uniformed security guards (I work for the Traffic control division)

She said it was a zoo last night. People were camping out waiting for the 5 AM stuff to go on sale.

Since it's getting towards winter for real around here, I might have to do some security work too. I'll probably take the next available class.

It is strange, if I flag traffic, I get $13.00 an hour (As a crew chief). If I work a security gig, I get $9.00. The flagging class is 8 hours. Security guard certification is 40 hours.

Go figure...


Bri

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It never pays to become optimistic and even happy.

The agency called at 5:15 to let me know that Women's Wellness Place had advised them they had to cut a nurse's position and mine was the one they were getting rid of. I needn't report for work on Monday.

Poof.

Unemployed.

If I'd known even the end of last week I could have cancelled getting the driveway done. That's $4,000 I would most definitely have put off spending if I'd had even the tiniest clue they weren't keeping me after all.
Or even if they'd let me know around 4:30 I could have cleared out my stuff and handed in my parking pass before I left.

But NooOOOooo...

I'm going to stop now before I end up ranting for seventeen paragraphs.

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Aaaaw sorry Rosie. :( that really major sucks, with major bad timing and all *hugs*

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Will you all come back if I stop bitching and moaning?

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Oh Rosie honey I am so so sorry. I am sure that you will be able to find something really quick since you are such an amazing nurse ..hey you could move here if you want. I can definitely guarantee there are openings here:) HUGS and more HUGS

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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But do you have a particle accelerator and my family there..?


Thanks for the sentiment, though.

Technically I'm still employed because I was working through the agency, but I'm not bringing in any income. Let's face it when the doctor who started the practice says to you "we're keeping you" and then they decide they don't need that nursing position after all (after 12 weeks but before the contract with the agency is up) it really makes you wonder. I'm going to accept the "The doctor who was out is not coming back, so we don't need that nursing position anymore" at face value. It may have been a case of staff reduction due to budgetary considerations, but it feels like "sucked so bad they canned your ass".

I mean, think about it: you say to the entire staff one day in November that the doc's not coming back and we all know that another doc's leaving in May, but you'll be replacing them ASAP (the day after you had head hunters in the office) and that you're not planning on laying off staff. You give out longer term projects, the next week ask someone to speak on one at a staff meeting, then decide you don't need them after you've spent 12 weeks training them and get rid of them by the end of the week? What here doesn't make sense? Are you really having that much trouble financially that you can't hold on to a productive team member because they're not one of yours officially for another four weeks? What about the other nurse you hired four weeks ago? Are you keeping her? (I have no idea) Are you reducing you MAs? (Probably not, as they're more cost efficient). You wanted to get another Lead RN in there to take some of the load off the only other RN you have (who is off Fridays). Guess you changed your mind about that one too.

My mom (Did I mention I was on my way out to dinner with my mother when I got the call about 45 min after my shift ended?) said that they're probably not going to have to pay the agency's fee now that I'm not needed. (She's been a manager with fairly good sized businesses and understands how MBAs think.)
She says her company is currently laying off people by forcing them into early retirement 2-3 months before they'd get full medical coverage with the pension.

(Oh the bastards are greedy, yes indeedy..)

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I WORK in healthcare and I'm still a supporter of the principle of everyone in our society getting medical care at low to no cost to them (socialized medicine/universal healthcare coverage/whatever you want to call it) if for no other reason than bullshit like that wouldn't matter so much.

Imaging yourself at 65-70 years old saying "In five months I'm retiring and while money will be tight I won't have to worry about my healthcare" then are given the option of taking what you can get (sans coverage for medical expenses) or getting fired and losing everything. Hmm... either way sucks but you're not going to say "fuck you" unless you've already got a sizeable nest egg tucked away and don't really need the income anyway. Which is, let's face it, not even true of most of the middle management let alone the rank and file.

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Sorry, that came out of nowhere. I've flagged the grouchy bits for those who want to avoid it.

So anyway, I'm definitely going with "Temp position/suddenly overstocked with nurses" when asked at the next interview why my employment ended.

Did I mention how much I hate going on interviews? Or how much I hate that probationary period where you feel like you don't know a fucking thing and you'll never get the hang of it? Or how pissed I am that the job which was going to mesh perfectly with my plans to return to school has suddenly evaporated and now I don't know what I'm going to be able to do or when I can do it?

I'm hoping for another job in OB, but I'm going to have to take what's out there that I'm actually qualified for no matter what it is.

Did I mention I never did the full 6mos/year on the hospital floors because the 6 weeks I

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Oh HUGS HUGS and more HUGS sweety. It's always so disappointing when you find a job you love and it poofs on you, but I'd believe them. They may have thought that they were going to get another doc and then when they had the end of year budget meeting realized they couldn't afford it or the nurse that went with it. Or maybe the person they thought would buy in, went with another practice ( which happens all the time)
and yes we do have particle accelerator and you could bring your family. Plus compared to what you're used to , it's nice and warm here

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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