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.
7 Comments
Mel Pinto · February 4, 2026 at 8:31 am
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Been there, had what happened to you in another occupation. The world is filled with a bunch of useless vindictive bastards. But also some good people.
Michael · February 4, 2026 at 9:43 am
HR shadow banning is real.
Steve S6 · February 4, 2026 at 10:27 am
You’re actually playing out a very common recommendation for promotion. Leave the current company. Contract work is fine for that and usually quickest. In a couple of years you either have found a better place or can come back to the old haunts as an outside hire which jumps you off the old tracks. Bottom line that disconnect opens lots of opportunities going forward. Good luck going forward.
Stealth Spaniel · February 4, 2026 at 1:27 pm
I hope your lawyer takes Miss Lying Bitch to the cleaners-personally. Destroy her reputation. Let the hospital burn and learn. When it comes to FXXking my reputation, I full out destroy. You can NEVER get your reputation back once it is destroyed. Congrats on the new job-you are playing it very smartly!!
Steve the Engineer · February 4, 2026 at 3:24 pm
Congratulations! That’s great. I hope you never have the misfortune to again be managed by someone with some bug up their butt that takes it out on you.
In my almost 30 years of time in “corporate America” I was very lucky in that I only had one immediate superior that had a less-than-wonderful opinion of me and what I brought to the party. And ultimately was lucky again, when after my employer was acquired by a peer company and the boss who obviously did not like me had quit the acquiring firm to come work where I was (and torment me while there) – on day one of the “new company” they fired everyone that had quit said company previously, I think because they were branded as “disloyal” or something.
hh475 · February 4, 2026 at 9:02 pm
What goes around tends to come around. My wife had a horrible boss — she came home crying from work for two years before we gave up and moved to another city. Ten years later, she was in an admin position, and her old boss applied for a management job. It didn’t happen.
Similarly, I worked with a guy who actively sabotaged my career. He wasn’t my boss, but he ran a unit that I was peripherally associated with in addition to my main responsibilities I quit that job when my wife quit hers. Twenty years later, he applied for a job where I worked, and would have been my direct boss. I said I’d quit the day they hired him. He didn’t get the job.
Aesop · February 6, 2026 at 4:49 am
A lifetime in healthcare proves that in a majority-female-run field, your work environment is exactly like a bad relationship: you have to leave to get any respect. The number of people I know who monkey-branched out of and into their old job, getting the pay raises they were repeatedly denied, was because Client B hired them at a raise, then they came back to Client A, who refused raises or promotions when they were in-house, and suddenly saw them as 10x the nurse they were before they left when they applied to come back. “Hire from without, and suppress from within” is corporate policy in healthcare, enforced by cat lady single moms whose personal life is a shambles, and they treat their employees of either sex like they do their poor life choice partners.
Kudos on your exit strategy.
Personally, my retirement can’t come too soon.
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