Do Not Rehire?

We wear tracking devices too--nothing unsual there. It enables us to find each other easily and minimizes overhead paging. I actually love the system, though I felt like I wasn't trusted when I first got hired. We call it our lo-jack.

One thought that came to my head was that you might cost the facility more than a less experienced nurse (because you'd get a higher pay for experience), but I could be totally off my rocker. I'd doubt that you'd be on a no-hire list for so long, especially since you weren't out-and-out fired. Another thought is that being rural community, everyone knows everyone, so applicants may have "connections" from within that you might not.

Yes, perhaps they only posted the openings to cover themselves for employment discrimination purposes even though they are in a remote area. They might have already had their hires in mind, but wanted to keep anyone else from having a reason for bringing an action against them.

Yup. I know for sure that this happens around here.

to maybe answer your question about the 8 positions open... I work in an ER, staffing was always a bit of an issue but not nearly so bad as it is now. management decided it would be a good idea to hire new grad RNs and train them for the ER using a course they developed instead of requiring the employees to obtain their own ER certification through a school program(how it used to be done). so we had probably 6 new hires, all younger, that came in to work with us. the senior RNs started to get fed up, felt like they were "baby-sitters" and had to monitor the new hires/their patients in addition to their own patient load, without extra compensation. so a few left for positions elsewhere in the hospital and community care. Then some of the new nurses ended up quitting because they were still getting used to the department/routine and now had no one available or willing to mentor them. So things are worse now than they ever were.

It is an employer's market...

They have to tell you the reason, and they have to tell you if you have a Do Not Rehire in your chart. If you really want to know, call and drop vague hints about feeling discriminated against and calling the EOC. They'll get scared and start talking, because although a lot of people talk about the EOC, hardly anyone threatens to contacts them.

Might not be worth it though. They sound a little off.

Yes, people can put those Do Not Rehires in there for really dumb and vindictive reasons. I know a few people this has happened to.

Anyway, good luck. I hope your Mom is OK.

BTW I am sending out tons of resumes and I keep getting responses like yours. I don't think anyone is actually looking at my resume, in fact I know for as a fact that many of them are doing lotteries where they randomly pick resumes for review and the rest go in the trash can unread.

So, they just have a stock response they are sending to everybody; probably Florence Nightengale could apply and she'd get the same response.

I have been told outright during an interview no less, that everyone was being interviewed whether they were in serious consideration or not. They wasted my time and effort and were not shy about letting me know that they were doing that.

That is maddening!! The same thing has happened to me recently, and I was upset. Interviewing costs money, I have to take time off my current job, and it is nerve-wracking. I thnk if an employer is not interested in hiring me, they should not get my hopes up and spend my money by making me come in for an interview.

"I feel discriminated against." I'm not tracking here....how do you go from a polite "sorry, we're not interested" response to your resume, to discrimination? It's not even as if you've interviewed and had reason to think that they saw/heard/felt something to discriminate against.

"I feel discriminated against."I'm not tracking here....how do you go from a polite "sorry, we're not interested" response to your resume, to discrimination? It's not even as if you've interviewed and had reason to think that they saw/heard/felt something to discriminate against.

I think it's because there are so many openings and she has a lot of experience that most employers would find desirable, and she's wondering why she received such an immediate rejection. I imagine that's why she posted her age to us, as if to question if there might be a component of ageism. Either that or she is on an eternal do-not-hire list because of a vindictive nurse many moons ago. I think I'd wonder about all kinds of reasons why I would be rejected so quickly, too, if I wore her shoes.

OP--our do-not-hire lists around here are an absolute joke. People get fired and put on this list and will be rehired by the same facility months later. I've seen it several times. I still doubt that is the problem.