male CNA fired for "I love YOU"

[edgreen]

:angryfire Ok, here goes,

I am a nursing student who has bee an CNA for 2 years now. I was recently fired for "harrasment" let me explain...

I was the only male CNA in a pediatric rehab hospital, I worked with around 15 to 20 nurses techs and RT's all the time. we got a new DON a few months back and suddenly I started noticing alot of position changes in management and new pollicies that never got followed up on and things like that. as one of the supervisors was leaving her last day she looked at me and said, "you wont last long, you do your job better than the people that have been here for ten years and that pisses alot of peole off. plus you are a guy." I wasent sure if it was just her being bitter or if it was due to actual information she had. I found out this week.

I was called in to discuss my anual eval when my DON says to me, "i've gotten a complaint about you harrassing a nurse."

Really? i said. "yes, apparantly u told her you loved her."

"Yeah, i asked if she could find me another shift and after 4 hours of asking and wondering if she was going to look for me, she said she had found me an extra shift, so I was like THANK YOU THANK YOU!! I LOVE YOU FOR THIS THANKS!!" i really needed the money for my kids birthday party.

So my DON goes on about how people should feel safe around their workplace and they shouldent feel like there trying to compete with me. so she was terminating me due to conduct. (this woman once told me to stop asking the nurses questions because it made them feel stupid when they didn't know the answer, my thoughts are u SHOULDfeel stupid for not knowing why you are pushing that drug or whats wrong with a patient:angryfire )

so now i am looking for a job. I'm sereously considering gettin my EMT-P first and get some time on the box. just for the experence.

dont that just get you right in the orifice!!!

[Reesa23]

First of all I hope you run right down to the unemployment office. You didn't do anything wrong. Sounds like you were fired unfairly. They can't put anything on your CNA licence because of this either, so don't be scared of that. What happened to you was completely unfair. They figure you'll find a new job before they have to pay in a dime to unemployment for wrongfully firing you.

[1Tulip]

I just have to shake my head when I read stuff like this. How do people like this DON rise to the top??? (Please, no cess-pool analogies. We don't want to offend anyone.) Sadly, I'll bet everyone who's posted here has run across people that are in leadership positions against all logic and in spite of manifest evidence of incompetence. (I call them spores because they can survive anything even when every useful organism around then has been killed.)

[edgreen]

I just have to shake my head when I read stuff like this. How do people like this DON rise to the top??? (Please, no cess-pool analogies. We don't want to offend anyone.) Sadly, I'll bet everyone who's posted here has run across people that are in leadership positions against all logic and in spite of manifest evidence of incompetence. (I call them spores because they can survive anything even when every useful organism around then has been killed.)

Such was the case where I worked. A new manager came in and basically decided that she would construct her team and only those who were on her good side were going to be in her click. It's sad that there are people in this world who take action without realizing the ripple effect it has. They take an employee, who has great ambitions and a strong drive, and run them out on a rail. whyle the ones who do actual harm to patients and put lives on the line, are allowed to work.

Now, I may lose almost everything over this I've been out of work for almost a month and hope like hell I can catch up on bills and things before christmas. All because I didn't meet the criteria for "what they wanted" I don't know, alot of things go through my mind about this situation. the whys and hows are always clear AFTER the fact. I'm just tired of wrapping myself up in something, only to be shot down.

such is life i guess.

[barefootlady, ADN, RN]

Just wanted to say I hope never to have another toxic manager and work on a toxic unit. I have experienced this twice, I ran away as fast as I could, but the last time cost me a lot. Keep trying to rech your goals. Let us know how you are.

[jnette, ASN, EMT-I]

That really sux. They're cleaning house, and that's all there is to it. Want to staff it with clones of themselves. :stone

You're better off elsewhere.

And no, if you feel like saying "I love you", say it! It's ridiculous to play this overdone PC game. Ppl need to get a life, and this cold and callous world would benefit from a lot more "I love you"s in my humble opinion.

Screw them.. let them wallow in their stupidity and shallowness.

[evans_c1]

I agree 100% with the previous comment. I am a nursing student and CNA as well. I actually have not ran across this yet. It indeed sounds like you were working with incompetent individuals. They got mad when they couldn't answer your questions? It is a CNA's responsibilty to report concerns and yes...ask QUESTIONS! It all makes us better in the long run. I gues I take it for granted that I work with such great nurses! Keep your head up man.

[Havin' A Party!, ASN, RN]

... And no, if you feel like saying "I love you", say it! It's ridiculous to play this overdone PC game. Ppl need to get a life, and this cold and callous world would benefit from a lot more "I love you"s in my humble opinion...

Haven't been here in a while. (Just finished the first of two years. School kills any kind of social life!)

But glad to see you haven't changed a bit, Ms. J. You're only about 500% right on this.

Oh, and I still love you!

[jnette, ASN, EMT-I]

Haven't been here in a while. (Just finished the first of two years. School kills any kind of social life!)

But glad to see you haven't changed a bit, Ms. J. You're only about 500% right on this.

Oh, and I still love you!

WOW !!! LARRY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where HAVE you been? Was wondering what had become of you.. thought perhaps we had bored you to death and you had moved on...

Welcome back ! Stick around. Get a life !

Glad you still love me, too. I'll take it. I'm easy. :rotfl:

[nelligolitely]

Wow, I wish ANYBODY at my nursing home, besides the residents, would say they loved me! LOL.

I agree with everybody else. Get a lawyer. You were wrongfully terminated. Maybe the ANA being you're a student could help, or a similar organization for CNA's. I've worked with too many CNA's that have NO love in their hearts!

We cherish our male workers. They make the male residents feel more comfortable, physically can usu. handle more, and give us a chance to celebrate diversity. Unfortunately, I'm having the NewNurse troubles at work, and nobody has time to train me.

You'll be a great nurse. Hang in there.