Have you ever missed a day because you didn't know you were scheduled?

[Ginger45]

I have been working at this horrible unit for a few months. I just now went on my own. I had an absolutely horrible day Sunday and Monday. They have alot of trouble keeping staff and they are not the nicest to you. Well, their scheduling is weird. This was my first experience with it. I looked at it and from what I saw I was scheduled Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Well apparently they slipped this Thursday in there on me. I got a nasty call from the Director about how I was scheduled and didn't show up. I tried to tell her that I did not know but she continued on like I was 5. I have never not shown up for a job. This unit is awful anyway, alot of nit picking. They can't keep any help. But I still would have gone in.

I have been really stressed because my husband has not worked in 5 months. I hated this job and I had to put up with it. Monday I worked a 12 hour shift with no break whatsoever. Anyway, after her attitute and nastiness to me I just told her to forget it. I quit. Now I have to find another job in a hurry.

[Roseyposey]

Yep, it's happened to me. I was two weeks into six weeks of pre-approved, pre-scheduled medical leave. I got called five minutes after what would have been my normal start time from the staffing department. I had to fight with them that no, I would not be coming in and had not been released to go back to work!

[AngelfireRN, MSN, RN, APRN]

I used to keep a copy of the WHOLE unit's schedule on my fridge, with my name and days highlighted. On more than one occasion, I'd get woken up at the crack of dawn by a phone call. "You're on the assignment sheet for today." (We did a sheet for who was in which area every day and hung it at the main desk, so you could look and know where to go).

"Well, I am not on the main schedule." (This would clinch it. They could not FORCE you in if you were not on that main schedule)

"Oh, well would you LIKE to come in?"

Usually I would, because I liked my job. I think I overslept one time and wrote down the wrong day one time in 2 and a half years there. The off-coming nurse was a B when I came in after I overslept, but the day I wrote down wrong, all anyone did was tease me.

I don't blame you. I'd have told her where to go.

[Thornbird]

Happens to everyone sometimes. I've gone to work on my day off and not gone in on a scheduled day at various times. If I've not showed up on time for a scheduled shift - I've always gotten a "where are you?" call. I've never been verbally abused like that, even when I was brand new. I always go in when I've made a mistake, even if it's a night shift which stinks if you haven't slept. I've worked places where assignments were changed after posting but never where actual shifts were changed without telling people. I'd leave a job like that for sure.

[suanna]

The good thing about Nursing is im most areas of the country you can quit 2 jobs a week and still never miss a paycheck. If the unit was that bad it sounds like you had a higher power guiding your steps. Getting out and starting over somewhere decent may be the best thing to happen to you. I know it's scary now but there are jobs out there and you are better off finding one you love than putting up with one you hate for a paycheck. The longer you stayed there the harder it would have been to change. I quit my first nursing job on the spurr of the moment-(gave notice) and thought I had jumped off a cliff. Wife and kids, not to mention student loans.... The next job fell through before I started but I got hired at a wonderful Tele unit at a hospital I had written off when I was a student. I've worked at the same hospital for 23 years and looking back I see the hand of a higher power guiding my career opportunities that first year. I certainly didn't feel that way at the time. Six mos down the road I think you will be glad you did what you did.