leaving my job gave a 2 weeks manager very rude.

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I am an RN and just got hired onto a new facility. I have been driving 50 miles one way to work and wanted to find a hospital to work at closer to my home, which I did. I turned in my notice I asked for my last shift to be 1 week and 6 days from then (6 full 12 hour shifts). Well, my manager wanted to have a meeting with me this past week and it was very uncomfortable for me. All she said was how disappointed she was in me for leaving the company. She had nothing nice to say to me at all, no thank you or you've done a good job or good luck in the future.

Nothing!! When she asked me why I was resigning, in the middle of me explaining why, she cut me off. I pretty much had no talk time or say in this meeting. Well at the end of it she guilt tripped me into working an extra day. After I got home and everything sank in, I'm extremely mad for agreeing to work that extra shift, especially after the way she treated me. I start my new job the week after thanksgiving and I still have a lot to do before the holiday so that I can be prepared to start that next Monday. The only free days I have to do these things is this Friday, and what would have been a day off next Tuesday, but now I have agreed to work. I don't think it will all get done in one day.

What should I do? Tell her I can't work? Will this hurt me in the future, she is already really mad and I doubt that she would ever give me a good reference. I NEVER plan to work for this hospital again, and since I was there for less than a year I forfeit my paid time off to be cashed out. HELP!!! Advice needed.

I find it ironic that we are expected to be "professional" when we aren't treated as "professionals" , and are nothing more than waitresses/waiters with medical knowledge. Not too far from the fry guy if you ask me , lol

The professionalism goes one way. I maintain. that if if the job would fire you, lay you off at any time ofthe year you should be able to do the same. I will not be bound by mythology .

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I have been working per diem and recently just got a new job. My workplace has called me as little as 20-30 minutes before I am due to start a shift( and I live 45 minutes away) and told me not to come in. They'll put me on the schedule and then call me off for the majority of the shifts.

I went to give notice the other day( almost 3 weeks notice) and got grief for it. They want me to be available for the remainder of the graph even though they still may call me off at any time due to their whims. I know legally, I owe them nothing. I will give a my 2.5 week notice on Monday. I would still have been OK with staying on Per Diem but honestly, I think it may be better to just go.

This is one of those places that would still give a crap reference even if I did everything by the book, I'm thinking. But, I'll still do the right thing. I'm also going to send an email to HR with my resignation, so they can't claim that I never gave notice.

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