We had a surprise staff meeting last week about budget. I know we've been hurting for money and they've done everything they can, but last week it got to the point where letting staff go was the only solution. Imagine sitting in this meeting knowing you were the last clinician hired. I was the newbie, haven't even been here for a year yet. And as they say, "last one hired, first on fired!". Ah! Was today going to be my last day working here? I wonder if the other place would hire me again? Luckily I looked around and noticed some faces missing. Then as the boss continued to say "those who were let go have already been notified." A sigh of relief. I still have a job. Not only that, I was one of the few who would still be working 40 hour work weeks. Many people stayed on staff but had their hours cut. I guess they kept me on because being the 'newbie' I'm probably the cheap labor :) and I'm flexible. With that, I now work in 3 different clinics with 2 clinics an hour apart from each other. This actually works out quite nicely since John and I can carpool twice a week and it's nice to work with different people in different places.
Stupid economic decline. This was the closest personal encounter I've had with it. It's real alright. and scary
4 comments:
no way...that's scary. Glad you still have a job! My place is the opposite, they're hiring people left and right. It seems like there are new faces every week.
They have all these new cubicles set up and they're planning to knock down the wall adjacent to our suite and expand into the one next door. The wall paper people have to find a new office space.
I'm thinking, will I get a piece of this pie???
My work has been extremely low on funds and grants are not coming through, so the whole laboratory staff was let go, including me. The only thing saving me is that there is already a new clinical position lined up for me and it requires a Bachelor's degree (which the other staff members don't have), but my work hours for May have been cut to 3 days/week. It is pretty scary business and no career field is immune to it!
IT sucks! That's good your degree saved you. I feel so bad for the other people. Most of the ones let go were the ones who have been there the longest. But they're also less flexible, and don't have the right credentials. A lot of our money is based off grants too. Guess this means no more Bellagio conferences :(
Nancy- that is really good you guys are doing well. Demand that you get a big piece of that pie!
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