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I am moving from a big city to a little city. I applied for a position in my new city and they have put me through the ringer. Four interviews and counting! I have 3 graduate degrees and two undergraduate degrees and can run rings around anyone in their facility and feel they are treating me badly. I am to the point of telling them where to put their process.

However, I am trying t be a grownup! When can I tell them to kiss my !!!!!

I am ready to change plans and move to another city as I feel they are being mean and nasty! Am I being stupid? I worked dang hard for everything and they are treating me like a diploma nurse!

Specializes in School Nursing.

Me thinks you might be overselling yourself. If this small town facility is full of lowly educated BSNs, ADNs, and diploma nurses, they might not appreciate a big city personality with big city grad degrees. Especially when this person is willing to gloat about said big city experience and education.

Specializes in Oncology, Rehab, Public Health, Med Surg.
... they have put me through the ringer. Four interviews and counting! I have 3 graduate degrees and two undergraduate degrees !

Wringer.

Idiom makes much more sense if spelled correctly

Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.

....like a diploma nurse....

:down:

Where I work every department is different in terms of how they interview. My floor is a basic face to face interview with the hiring manager. The OR department has a much more involved process that includes multiple interviews including a group interview with potential coworkers. If you are new to the facility I would think phase one screening interviews would be done by human resources. Then moving on to interviews with specific departments once cleared by H.R. I am curious, are you interviewing for a basic staff nurse position?

This diploma nurse does not feel your obvious distain, lack of professionalism, immature and denigrating comments are appropriate on a forum that counts many diploma nurses as members. The facility you're interviewing with would be well advised to take a pass on hiring you given your attitude towards what would be some of your future coworkers.

Frankly your post sounds like either a troll post or one written by an angsty 15 year old. For someone who claims to have three graduate degrees your method of self expression does not reflect what you claim.

Specializes in Private Duty Pediatrics.

Frankly your post sounds like either a troll post ...

I would agree

Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.

Frankly your post sounds like either a troll post or one written by an angsty 15 year old. For someone who claims to have three graduate degrees your method of self expression does not reflect what you claim.

Sadly, I've witnessed my fair share of people who should be at higher levels of emotional intelligence and maturity based on their academic accomplishments but, for whatever reason, are completely failing at those expectations. :dead:

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
I am moving from a big city to a little city. I applied for a position in my new city and they have put me through the ringer. Four interviews and counting! I have 3 graduate degrees and two undergraduate degrees and can run rings around anyone in their facility and feel they are treating me badly. I am to the point of telling them where to put their process.

However, I am trying t be a grownup! When can I tell them to kiss my !!!!!

I am ready to change plans and move to another city as I feel they are being mean and nasty! Am I being stupid? I worked dang hard for everything and they are treating me like a diploma nurse!

You sound very immature.

Put you through the "ringer"? Never heard that one. I HAVE heard of putting you through the "wringer", but even this doesn't apply here. The more graduate degrees you have, the higher a position you tend to apply for, and the higher the position in the company, the more people who want to sign off on it, thus more interviews. I've had 12 interviews for a nurse manager position, 8 for a VAD coordinator position and 7 for an assistant manager position. You are not being put through a wringer.

My next question is why you think you can "run rings around anyone in their facility." If you think you are being treated badly, why would you want to work there? But the "kiss my !!!!!" and the "I feel they are being mean and nasty" and "they are treating me like a diploma nurse" comments seem childish, immature and offensive to diploma nurses.

Grow up.

Yes, you are being stupid.

I am moving from a big city to a little city. I applied for a position in my new city and they have put me through the ringer. Four interviews and counting! I have 3 graduate degrees and two undergraduate degrees and can run rings around anyone in their facility and feel they are treating me badly. I am to the point of telling them where to put their process.

However, I am trying t be a grownup! When can I tell them to kiss my !!!!!

I am ready to change plans and move to another city as I feel they are being mean and nasty! Am I being stupid? I worked dang hard for everything and they are treating me like a diploma nurse!

I don't think they are so much "treating (you) like a diploma nurse" as they are treating you like any other applicant. They may not see you as a special snowflake because of all your degrees.

Specializes in Critical Care.

If you are applying for a high level management job multiple job interviews come with the territory. Even if you are just applying for a floor nurse position multiple interviews are becoming more common. Your graduate degrees and living in a big city might be working against you as they may think you are overqualified and want to know if you will fit in and stay in a small town.

Your diploma crack is funny. Diploma nurses are pretty smart, smart enough not to overpay for a degree, maybe even smarter than you with all your grad degrees. I sure wouldn't want your student loans! Think of what you could have done with all that money!

Specializes in Med/Surg, Tele, Dialysis, Hospice.

In the city where I've always worked, diploma RNs are probably the most respected of all, because they came through the grueling, clinically intensive, hospital based programs well known in this city, none of which are easy by any means. There is a saying here, "If you are a Mercy nurse (diploma program), you can get hired anywhere." To put someone down without knowing anything about the program that they came from is childish and condescending. Having multiple degrees does not make you a better nurse, and it does not guarantee special treatment.

I agree with the PP who said that the facility is probably afraid that you will get tired of the job and bolt, and if you went into your interviews bragging about your advanced degrees and how you can "run circles around" the rest of their staff, they probably have already developed a distaste for you, to be honest.

If you have so many degrees, then why not pursue a position higher up that actually requires all that education? You would not be fun to work with for the other floor nurses if you took your attitude with you, no one wants a co-worker who thinks he/she is better than them.

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