About to throw in the towel!!!

[Stella_Blue]

Ok so I work at a VERY small assisted living facility. We have about 32 residents. We have a small nursing staff of five (2 LPN's and 3 CNA's) including myself. I am one of the LPN's and so is my DON and the rest are CNA's. There is only one person a shift. I swing back and fourth between 2nd and 3rd to get some extra hours. My DON works the 1st shift weekdays. Anyways I have been here 5 years. We recently hired a new girl who was supposed to only be our 2nd shift weekend girl...supposed to be. She has come in and took all of our hours, even our DON's!!!! I do not know what our boss is thinking! I am beyond mad!!!! I have worked here 5 years, called off once, never been written up, and have went above and beyond at this job! We are all just very annoyed. I have lost so many hours since she has been hired. I just don't get it. We have all sacrificed hours to this girl. I need this money. Im getting ready to start school in a month and Im trying to buy a house. I would just find another job but this is a good job for me while Im in school or I would have probably put my 2 weeks in today when I came in and saw the schedule! I just dont understand how someone who has worked here for 3 months can come in and take all of everyone's hours! Im sorry for the rant but I have to get my frustrations out somewhere. Has anyone ever experienced something like this before? It seems like the more you tell my boss the more hours you need the more he takes away!

[brandy1017, ASN, RN]

This doesn't seem to be the time to buy a house when your life is in transition going back to school, not getting enough hours of work and possibly quitting this job. If you quit the job before you buy the house it will be harder to qualify for a home loan. On the other hand, if you go thru with buying a house how will you be able to keep up the mortgage payments,etc when your not getting enough hours. Also you might find out that you need to cut the hours you work in order to have enough time to study. It would probably be better to hold off on buying a home till your life and job are more settled. Once you are an RN and have a job you will also get a pay raise that will make mortgage payments easier to swing.

[anotherone, BSN, RN]

Ugh... yes do not put all your eggs in a basket. BUT DO NOT ASSUME it is always the employee. That in their desperation they let a slacker , with a bad attitude eat up all the OT. IT is BUSINESS. WE are all replaceable. Very few people in the world are not easily replaceable ( strictly speaking a work/skill sense ). Even big name actors, reporters, professional athletes, great surgeons. Guess what another medical school class graduates next year. Lol let alone nurses. As an employee you can give it your all everytime and it might not be enough. IF need be or to save a dime, that is what the BUSINESS will do. Sometimes you can play politics and hang on but in the end most can't count on that.

[Stella_Blue]

Yea Im still up in the air over the house situaition. Its a bankrupted house so it is SUPER SUPER cheap. Otherwise I would have walked away a long time ago. I have been waiting over 9 months for the paper work to go through from the lawyers and frankly now I hope it takes another 9 months which I have heard absolutely nothing so far. Its a really good deal, but I will cross that bridge when it comes. My mortgage would be about 1/4 of any rent anywhere as I have already had my loan drawn up so Im just trying to outweigh every benefit pretty much. At this point what will happen will happen. My boyfriend has a descent job as well so we will be relying on his income too to help for my year in school, so its not solely on me. Thanks for all the advice though. I think Im going to try and stick it out at my job for the next year and just see what happens. What I do have going for me is I plan on working mainly 3rds while Im in school and the other 3rd shift girl is on social security and cant go past a certain number of hours so HOPEFULLY Ill benefit from that. Ill just wait and see. I just keep telling myself one more year, one more year! The sad thing though is that I really do love my job thats what makes it so hard and thats what keeps me there. I love the people I work with and everything. We are like a family since it is such a small place. Ill miss my residents terribly and the staff even when I do leave, so its just a tough decision all around.