Be Careful What You Say...

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Yesterday, less than one month after I had started my new job as a Telephonic Case Manager, the temp agency I work for called and told me that their client didn't want me back. It seems that their manager overheard me complaining to another nurse about the way their company conducts their business. Instead of confronting me with this issue directly, the manager gave me the boot in abscentia (coward!)

The Account Manager told me today that the Manager who fired me "felt terrible". I'll just bet she did! :angryfire

CaseMgr1 :icon_hug: What an awful thing to happen to you so soon after starting your job. Just remember....when one door of opportunity closes, another door of opportunity opens. If you noticed things were not kosher so soon in your employment, it is better that this happened to you early in the job than later when you really would have invested a lot of your own talents and energy into the job. Stay encouraged! :balloons:

Bummer! I have put my foot n my mouth so many times I have had to have it surgically removed. Keep your chin up, mouth shut and scream into a pillow.

Hope all turns out well for you

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Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.

I'm fine. I've started another job at a facility which is only 20 miles from where I live (the other place was 68 miles one way), and am no longer working for the agency who placed me. Oh, and by the way, the recruiter who also worked for this agency is no longer working for them, either. Very interesting..... :rolleyes:

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.
I began to see very early on that these people were running the equivalent of a "Boiler Room".

I worked for 6 weeks for a large nurse telephone advice line. You would recognize it if I mention their name. It was very frustrating. You had to follow the nursing guidelines you were seeing on the computer screen in front of you based on information you put into the computer program. On top of that, they picked a couple of your conversations and charting you did to review with you (weekly for new hires, monthly for permanent employees). I learned that when you are told that your conversation may be taped and played back for evaluation or educational puposes, they mean it! We were not permitted to use our own experience in advising patients--only what was showing up on the computer screen--no deviation.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.
If you don't want something repeated, then don't say it.

the bottom line. :)

we all need reminding at times.

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