Quitting job after only 8 months

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I'm leaving my current job after 8 months of being there. It's my first RN job, and it's in a clinic. I already have another job lined up. My concern is how to break the news to the doctor and nurses I work with. I live about an hour away from my current job (where I've been working), and they keep asking when I plan on moving closer. This new job is much closer to where I originally live, so I won't have to move anymore. I don't know how to tell them I'm leaving (besides a 2 week notice). They'll be judgy, as many of them are older. Any advice on how to tell them?

As I love to say, 2 weeks later they'll be talking about something else!

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Older people are everywhere--beware---lolz..?

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On 4/28/2019 at 11:56 AM, hppygr8ful said:

Just this quote from my daddy "You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought of you if you realized how rarely they did"

Hppy

Yeah, that's right: the times they are not judging you, they really couldn't give a C#*$ about you.

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I was at my previous job for 6 months and besides giving my 2 weeks notice I didn't bother telling any of my co-workers that I was leaving. I wasn't close with any of them and I wasn't there that long so I figured no one would care.

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On 4/27/2019 at 10:02 PM, Alexxoxox said:

I'm leaving my current job after 8 months of being there. It's my first RN job, and it's in a clinic. I already have another job lined up. My concern is how to break the news to the doctor and nurses I work with. I live about an hour away from my current job (where I've been working), and they keep asking when I plan on moving closer. This new job is much closer to where I originally live, so I won't have to move anymore. I don't know how to tell them I'm leaving (besides a 2 week notice). They'll be judgy, as many of them are older. Any advice on how to tell them?

It doesn't matter, nurses leave jobs all the time. Just tell them if you want, if you don't want to then don't.

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On 4/28/2019 at 11:41 AM, Alexxoxox said:

I'm sorry, I should not have worded it that way. The older nurses at my job have actually made judgemental comments about younger nurses not staying at jobs long in "this generation". My apologies for the wording.

They are generalizing. I have studied nurse retention and keeping young nurses is not as easy as it used to be that's all.

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On 4/28/2019 at 2:54 PM, Alexxoxox said:

I have already apologized for that statement multiple times in this thread. I never once said my opinion was 'obviously the truth', as you put it. This needs to stop. I can't undo what I said. I apologized, time to move on.

Sometimes people respond right after reading the OP and without having seen subsequent postings. I have read posts in which people are raked over the coals repeatedly because mea culpas were far down in the chain (and not read) by people taking issue with something in that original post.

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On 4/27/2019 at 9:02 PM, Alexxoxox said:

I'm leaving my current job after 8 months of being there. It's my first RN job, and it's in a clinic. I already have another job lined up. My concern is how to break the news to the doctor and nurses I work with. I live about an hour away from my current job (where I've been working), and they keep asking when I plan on moving closer. This new job is much closer to where I originally live, so I won't have to move anymore. I don't know how to tell them I'm leaving (besides a 2 week notice). They'll be judgy, as many of them are older. Any advice on how to tell them?

Really? "Older = judgmental"? How ageist of you.

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On 4/28/2019 at 1:54 PM, Alexxoxox said:

I have already apologized for that statement multiple times in this thread. I never once said my opinion was 'obviously the truth', as you put it. This needs to stop. I can't undo what I said. I apologized, time to move on.

Snarky doesn't equal an apology. And you haven't apologized multiple times -- you seem to have cut and pasted the same self-justifying "apology" multiple times. Justifying your statement does not equal an apology.

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On 4/28/2019 at 3:17 PM, Emergent said:

Your apology states that these older nurses were judgmental. Are you judging these older nurses or are you just stating the facts?

I'm surprised this accurate statement got so many dislikes. It's far more accurate than the OP's assertion that she apologized "multiple times." Saying that she only called older nurses "judgy" because a few older nurses that she worked with judged her is not expressing remorse for ageist assumptions.

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30 minutes ago, Ruby Vee said:

I'm surprised this accurate statement got so many dislikes. It's far more accurate than the OP's assertion that she apologized "multiple times." Saying that she only called older nurses "judgy" because a few older nurses that she worked with judged her is not expressing remorse for ageist assumptions.

I wish the OP the best. It's wise the remember though, whenever we go to greener pastures, we always take ourselves. I've found that a bothersome reality at times!?

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8 minutes ago, Ruby Vee said:

I'm surprised this accurate statement got so many dislikes. It's far more accurate than the OP's assertion that she apologized "multiple times." Saying that she only called older nurses "judgy" because a few older nurses that she worked with judged her is not expressing remorse for ageist assumptions.

Stop. This is harassment now. I apologized, and you keep on bringing up the subject. It's not my fault if you have a problem accepting apologies. That's not on me, that's on you. The subject of this post is unrelated to what you repeatedly keep saying.

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