I had three interviews for a job I wanted. The job was part time, and I want to move from full-time to part time.
First interview I felt went great. It was basically them explaining to me what the job would be and making sure I would really be interested.
Second interview was with the manager and two dr's I would work with. I felt it went great.
Third interview was a co-worker interview. While I left not feeling it went stellar because they kept pointing out that I was not experienced in this area, I felt like I still had a shot.
Got an email that they wanted to talk to my manager. My manager was out on medical leave, so I let them know when she would be back. I then emailed her and apologized for not having the conversation in person, but said I had interviewed for a part time position.
Three weeks later, I got the email that turned me down and the job was reposted.
I thought it strange, but decided they must have decided they wanted someone experienced since it was part time. A few weeks later, I saw a friend who worked in the dept while at lunch and since we were both eating, we had lunch together. She squirmed a little then said she wished my boss had "let me go" so that we could work together.
I was like, "uhhh what?" She said she was told my boss didn't want to let me go and since it was a less than lateral move (going from full time to part time), they didn't feel they could press the issue, so the job was reposted.
I'm not sure I want to work for my current manager now....I am not in a position where I can ask her why she blocked me, because she would know someone told me, and she could pretty easily find out who and get her into trouble.
Have you had this happen? How did you deal with it? I'm considering applying to other companies.
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That's weird....I posted this on another thread where the poster was asking for medical advice for a friend who they said was having side effects on a certain medication, yet was refusing to go to the MD. I'm not sure what happened!!
I had that happen to me while working in LTC. My floor got a new BSN-RN straight from school with zero exp.. I got invited to the night RN supervisor's wedding and she didn't. She gave me the shift off before knowing what it was for. After she found out, she tried to rescind the time off, but I wasn't going for it. After that incident, she attempted to ride me, but I stood my ground and knew policy & procedure. I decided to transfer to a different floor. One of the managers of a floor I had floated to & applied for, told me in confidence that she was trying to block me with the every manager's floor I applied to. But this manager told her she wanted no part of that and offered me the position. I was prepared to leave the facility if my transfer didn't go through. Needless to say, I outlasted the new nurse manager at the facility.
Unfortunately, it seems to be pretty common from what I've seen. Managers extend each other the courtesy of not "poaching" each others nurses. You may have to move to a different hospital system to transfer specialties or even cut back hours.
Other hospitals poach our nurses all the time, managers don't know each other. Although they may not wish to give an awful employee to another hospital, that's a courtesy, although it depends on how badly they want to rid themselves of the toxin. But nurses are free to move and if they have a reason they want to go, a good manager will just wave bye-bye. Within the facility if they want to move to another floor, or discipline, then go, it's our right as nurses and they're going to leave one way or another.
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I had that happen to me while working in LTC. My floor got a new BSN-RN straight from school with zero exp.. I got invited to the night RN supervisor's wedding and she didn't. She gave me the shift off before knowing what it was for. After she found out, she tried to rescind the time off, but I wasn't going for it. After that incident, she attempted to ride me, but I stood my ground and knew policy & procedure. I decided to transfer to a different floor. One of the managers of a floor I had floated to & applied for, told me in confidence that she was trying to block me with the every manager's floor I applied to. But this manager told her she wanted no part of that and offered me the position. I was prepared to leave the facility if my transfer didn't go through. Needless to say, I outlasted the new nurse manager at the facility.
A right-out-of-school anything has no business being a manager of anything.
My manager is on medical leave for 8 weeks and can only be reached by email. After that, she is temporarily opening a new unit while still managing us. We also have a lot of nurses graduating with master's degrees that are leaving for other opportunities, so I can see where she would say it will be too hard for her to let me go, but still....she could have told me. Before I worked for her, I had a manager that would write you up for silly things every six months so that you could not leave. I got written up once because they lost someone's discharge paperwork after I signed it and filed it. I couldn't prove I did it, so she wrote me up. After that, I made a nursing note that said, "paperwork signed and filed in chart". Next time she tried, I asked if she saw the note.....
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That's weird....I posted this on another thread where the poster was asking for medical advice for a friend who they said was having side effects on a certain medication, yet was refusing to go to the MD. I'm not sure what happened!!