FIRED I didn't even see it coming , Please advise

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Ruby Vee, BSN

17 Articles; 14,030 Posts

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
Thank you all for the replies.

Liveyourlive I never though I would be the one to get the phrase "not a good fit" but I also believe once a mind is made up you can't change it. The worse part is let go for nothing.

Mom To 4. I agree with you I won't speak with the manager is done, and I am a firm believer in blessings in disguise but we all here other nurses get fired for "not being a good fit" but we never think it would touch us. I will chalk it off and keep moving.

"Not a good fit" IS a reason. It may not be a reason you understand, and I would urge you to try to find out what made you a poor fit for that position. It may be a mistake you're making that is easily correctable -- and may be worth correcting before it makes you a poor fit for the next position you take.

Various things make an employee a poor fit for a position -- here are just a few examples of reasons orientees were let go in my unit:

On Kate's first day in our unit, she sat down next to me where I was watching monitors and announced "The male nurses in this unit are all immoral." Her first day! It turns out that she was a born again Christian and had attended a Christian nursing school. Her ideas of morality were somewhat rigid, and did NOT include some of the diverse lifestyles of our nursing staff. It would not have been an employment-ending problem had she kept her ideas to herself, but Kate was always pointing out to her preceptors the error of their ways, immorality of their lifestyles and the liklihood that they would burn in hell after death. Not a good fit for most units.

Livvie always wanted to work in a busy ICU . . . but she never wanted to move very fast. Even in an emergency. She studied, knew her drugs, her rhythms, her interventions. She didn't make mistakes. But she never moved very fast. Not a good fit.

Elizabeth's first day was memorable. She wanted to make sure she didn't have to work Christmas, had to have New Year's off, and was sure we weren't really serious about making her rotate to nights. Every time the schedule came out -- three times in her six months of orientation -- she had numerous requests for weekends off, nights off, reasons she couldn't rotate to nights, etc. She called off frequently . . . her cat was sick, her stepmother was sick, her grandmother died . . . and yet was clearly visible on FaceBook enjoying some social event. Not a good fit.

In each case, we talked to these orientees several times about the reasons we considered them a poor fit -- but they either didn't get it or didn't really hear it. If any of them had truly understood what we were trying to say, they could have reversed the process that finally led to them being let go. Yet each was convinced they were "fired for no reason."

Ms.MayaRN

30 Posts

Specializes in MED SURG, OB/GYN.

Not a good fit is not a reason. As to state a reason that I don't understand . I'm not iliterate I'm a nurse just like you . That's the problem with nursing be honest be upfront .

not a good fit could be anything, too fat? too young ? too old? too skinny? not blonde ?

How can a mistake be corrected if your not told what the mistake is? How can you learn from not a good fit.

I guess maybe I should had been like the nurse whom I heared calling a patient discussting and gross. She is still employed there, maybe that's the fit they want.

Thank you for giving examples of nurses who were let go.

Is sad a good nurse like livvie is let go for "not being fast enought" but if she was told she wasn't fast enought that is a good reason if speed is all a unit ones. Not a good fit means nothing without provinding objective data.

Most of your examples besides lizzie are of nurses that I can see they were at fault especially if given the opportunity to change.

I'm sorry to disagree with your point of views. As to state that each person whom is fired believe it was for no reason is putting the blame on them and on me. You where not there when it happened and I doubt you have ever been discriminate in your life.

As to the born again christian , noone knew prior to hiring her of her religious views.

I was born in Bangladesh . If you told me discrimination and hatred thrives in nursing I would had never believe you had it not happened to me.

White privilege goes far. Some people in this world don't know what is to go hungry, to struggle to find a job. come from distructives home. God bless the good people in this world who help others.

Ruby Vee, BSN

17 Articles; 14,030 Posts

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

As to the born again christian , noone knew prior to hiring her of her religious views.

No one cared about her religious views. What people cared about was that she was always inflicting them on other people, complete with diatribes about how they were all sinners and were going to hell.

And as for Lizzie, who never ever wanted to move fast -- a fast-paced ICU is a poor place for her. Especially when she'd been told several dozen times she needed to pick up the pace but decided not to even TRY to move faster because she didn't like moving fast. Not a good fit.

Ms.MayaRN

30 Posts

Specializes in MED SURG, OB/GYN.

Your completely right no one cares about peoples religious views but we do care about always inflicting them on others, as to Lizzie you state that "She'b been told several dozen times she needed to pick up the pace"

in other words this nurses were advise, told to improve but didn't improve so thereby end result is not a good fit .

I was never given that opportunity. I am not a victim nor am I trying to make myself appear as one. All I wanted was an explanation not just the phrase" not a good fit" without anything else . Not a good fit will not help me growth as a person .

If I was told "your too slow" pick up your pace. You have been warned then I know I have to correct the issue . I was never advise not a good fit without anything else is heartless, and plain gross .

I am moving on is not the end of the world. I do wish they get a taste of their own medicine in their lifetime.

rlev

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No stethoscopes? This place doesn't even sound like it's in America.

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