Divemedic

Two weeks ago, I applied for a PRN position. Three days later on Saturday, I received an email from the company asking when I would be available for an interview. The only day I had last week was Friday, so I had an interview.

They loved me, and called me even before I got home and told me HR would be calling by Monday to offer me the job. They were wrong, I didn’t get the call until Tuesday. Still, it was 9 days from application to interview (with the delay being my schedule, not theirs) and four days from interview to formal job offer.

On a related note, a friend of mine who works in the admin office told me that the reason I was having trouble finding a job was my ED director was deliberately sabotaging my reputation with other hospitals. According to this friend, my current manager was telling potential employers that I was a constant problem and she wouldn’t recommend hiring me. All the while, she was telling me what a valued member of the team I was.

I had told my manager I was interested in a management spot for the new offsite ED we are opening, but she told me that they were going to run it without a manager. I found out later that the very next week, she offered that manager’s position to a nurse with only an associate’s degree, fewer certifications, and less experience than I have. That was the same week I received discipline for being “too slow” in performing my duties, discipline which was placed in my file, making me ineligible for promotion or transfer for 12 months.

The reason this is relevant is during the interview for the job I just got, the interviewing manager told me that I have leadership coming out of my pores. She said that she couldn’t understand what my current manager was talking about, then told me that she understands the politics and favoritism that happens at my current employer, because she used to work there. Then she told me that she was opening another FSED in 2027, and would need a manager for it. She understands that all I am looking for is a PRN spot and some time traveling with my wife, but when the time comes, would I consider running the new place?

I told her the truth: I would consider any offer, and we would see what the offer was when we got there. That was apparently good enough, because I got the job.

How about that bitch of an old manager? She doesn’t know what’s coming her way. I have timecards and paycheck stubs to prove that she has been altering time cards to steal wages and run her department at lower cost. That shit is going down. I’m close enough to retirement that I don’t care what it does to my reputation. I am all out of fucks to give.

I have three more days working at the old place. My last day is next week, and I haven’t immediately stormed out for two reasons:

• I want the three weeks of PTO that I still have banked there. I don’t want to walk away from $5000.
• I also don’t want a bad manager to get me to do something foolish like a ‘no rehire’ status from HR. Bad managers with an axe to grind come and go, HR black marks are forever. Since there are only a handful of hospital chains in Florida, burning bridges is never done lightly.

Anyhow, orientation begins soon at the new place, then I can schedule some PRN shifts.

It snowed here last night, and bottomed out at around 21 degF. That’s much colder than we’ve had in years. The snow was just flurries, so it didn’t stick. One of the people on my street left their lawn sprinklers on last night. The street in front of his house and his lawn were icy this morning. We didn’t break above freezing until after noon.

I am taking it easy today and sitting in my warm house playing video games. I’m not even looking at Social Media or the news today.

I bought a pair of Meta Quest 2 VR goggles and used them to fly DCS for the first time today. All I can say is –

BIG DIFFERENCE

It’s like you are really flying a plane. All I did today was start up, taxi, take off, fly about 20 miles out, then go back to base and land. Trying to get used to flying with them on. My landing was much smoother and easier than it has been. It’s a tiny bit disorienting, but I will get used to it.

I recommend VR goggles. It’s only a matter of time before someone invents VR porn, if they haven’t already. This is some real looking video.

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