Night Shift Should I Just Leave

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So a little background. I am in a state monitoring program which is over in 3 days woohoo!!! I worked in case management for most of this time doing day work and sleeping during normal hours. However when Covid hit and my daughter was home I had to leave to get a job that would allow me to be home with her. Enter night shift. Past experience with night shift increased eating dosorder symptoms (anorexic/bulimic) increased depression increased anxiety and the list goes on and on. I then get a nasty Summer fall cold I think and call my boss to find out if my Covid-19 test from the previous week had come back. If I was negative I could just battle my way through. My test was never processed due to an error. I went then to get my own test and went to work to be told go home. No fever, just a dry cough and runny nose and sore throat. I left and went home to just pass out. I will begin interviewing for home care and doctors offices in about 2 weeks as a restriction in the program I am in is no working independently. Here is my question should I quit and live off of my savings and credit card or should I suck it up get better and head back next weekend. I am out the rest of the weekend because I am waiting for my Covid-19 test and was told even if it is negative I cannot come back in with cold symptoms. Oh right and I cannot take Dayquil at all because of the random testing can mistake dayquil for meth fun times. 

 

 

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Unless and until you have a new job offer firmly locked in I wouldn't quit.  Unless that is you feel you have no choice for your health and mental well being, then of course you come first before any job.

But if you can tough it out long enough to get another job offer you won't have the added stress of being unemployed for an undetermined amount of time. Not knowing when the paycheck is coming is probably going to be more stressful than work. 

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No I would not quit. I would do anything in your power to not put yourself into a position where you need to accept any job offer no matter how terrible the employer, which is where you may find yourself if you deplete your savings and rack up CC debt. In addition, you don't really know how trying to find a different job is going to play out right now. How is home care going to work out if you can't work independently(?); factor in a few employers who may not want to hire someone with restrictions, etc.

This is not to say that everything is going to be an uphill battle or that you won't be successful in your job search! Just saying take every precaution to not put yourself at further disadvantage.

Apparently research has shown that it is actually easier to find a job if you already have one. You don't need any potential employer having even more reason to think that you may (really/secretly) be unemployed because of your history with a monitoring program....even if you tell them you resigned voluntarily for your own reasons.

You know? Just do your best to remain employed so you can carefully look for a good new position for yourself.

Best of luck!! ?

 

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5 minutes ago, JKL33 said:

No I would not quit. I would do anything in your power to not put yourself into a position where you need to accept any job offer no matter how terrible the employer, which is where you may find yourself if you deplete your savings and rack up CC debt. In addition, you don't really know how trying to find a different job is going to play out right now. How is home care going to work out if you can't work independently(?); factor in a few employers who may not want to hire someone with restrictions, etc.

This is not to say that everything is going to be an uphill battle or that you won't be successful in your job search! Just saying take every precaution to not put yourself at further disadvantage.

Apparently research has shown that it is actually easier to find a job if you already have one. You don't need any potential employer having even more reason to think that you may (really/secretly) be unemployed because of your history with a monitoring program....even if you tell them you resigned voluntarily for your own reasons.

You know? Just do your best to remain employed so you can carefully look for a good new position for yourself.

Best of luck!! ?

 

My contract is over I am a free woman. I am going to stay on weekends everyother. 

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8 minutes ago, Gratefully2years said:

My contract is over I am a free woman.

That's wonderful!

 

On 9/12/2020 at 12:46 PM, Gratefully2years said:

I will begin interviewing for home care and doctors offices in about 2 weeks as a restriction in the program I am in is no working independently.

I read this completely wrong and thought you were saying those were the places you were going to apply because you were going to have some post-monitoring restrictions for awhile. You meant that you will be able to apply for them once you're officially done. Got it!

Congrats to you but I still say that if you have choices that will give you either less power or more power....pick more. Keeping the job you have now may greatly contribute to the image you are able to portray while job-hunting, thus more (rather than less) power for you.

Hope you find a nice position quickly.

 

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So now another dilemma with this job that I truly do love. I could go per diem and that would be fine. However a CNA at my current job and I were chatting and he mentioned he was 26 years clean was in NA and was a sponser. I shared with him my clean time about three weeks ago thinking here is someone in the program who I can work with. NO I find out he told other CNA's that I was an addict and then had the nerve to go online and search my license. He came in two nights ago and said congratulations. I was like for what and he said your license was cleared. I was like wait how the hell would you know that. Later that same night one of the other CNA's came up to me and said hey do you know Will said that you had a past history of addiction issues. I was stunned. I went home angry and pissed but most of all scared out of my mind that here is someone that could spread this truth but still malicious about me and have my co workers looking at me with suspicion. If anything went down the finger would be pointed at me. I have seen this crap happen with other nurses. So I am thinking of talking with my DON about this and letting her know that while I love love love working here I am not comfortable with this and see what her suggestion is. I have an interview today for home care. Crossing my fingers.  

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Definitely talk with your DON and make your next move depending on what she says. However, continue to pursue new employment options as an expeditious move out of your present situation would be desirable. If you can, at least get a  shift or two of extended care or a one weekend day of on call visits set up with a home health agency. Then, if you like the new employer or need to leave, you have somewhere to go for the next full time job. Of course, nobody needs to remind you to keep your personal life to yourself.  Good luck.

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3 hours ago, Gratefully2years said:

So now another dilemma with this job that I truly do love. I could go per diem and that would be fine. However a CNA at my current job and I were chatting and he mentioned he was 26 years clean was in NA and was a sponser. I shared with him my clean time about three weeks ago thinking here is someone in the program who I can work with. NO I find out he told other CNA's that I was an addict and then had the nerve to go online and search my license. He came in two nights ago and said congratulations. I was like for what and he said your license was cleared. I was like wait how the hell would you know that. Later that same night one of the other CNA's came up to me and said hey do you know Will said that you had a past history of addiction issues. I was stunned. I went home angry and pissed but most of all scared out of my mind that here is someone that could spread this truth but still malicious about me and have my co workers looking at me with suspicion. If anything went down the finger would be pointed at me. I have seen this crap happen with other nurses. So I am thinking of talking with my DON about this and letting her know that while I love love love working here I am not comfortable with this and see what her suggestion is. I have an interview today for home care. Crossing my fingers.  

Wow, 26 years clean, an NA sponsor and he ignores the anonymous part of NA? I am so sorry. He had no business talking about your sobriety with anybody but you much less your coworkers and he should have known that. I don't blame you for being upset, instead of finding support you were thrown under the bus!

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I worked with an assistant DON who had a restricted license. I never knew this until I was passing through her unit and she asked me to pull a narcotic for her (she was covering the floor that day). I never told anyone else, because I believed that this was for her to do if she wanted people to know.

Congratulations on your sobriety. I worked for many years on a chemical dependency unit, and I know what a tough battle that is.

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