Today was my first day back to work from vacation, in which i found out I had a meeting with an administrator. She has informed me, that because I am going back to school, and someone else is looking for a part time position, they have decided to split up my current position which I have held for 3 years into two part time positions. I wasn't thrilled about this set up but I wasn't going to argue, I would still retain my benefits. But here's the clincher, the deal is only good until October 12th when the new employees are officially oriented, and the current employees promoted to my level. This means that if they have a full time employee available they will replace both of us with said full timer.
THis all translates into, I will have no job come october.
She gave me no other options, other than if by october someone resigns she will try to work something out.
They wait 2 weeks before school starts to tell me this. All year, infact since october 2006, i have told them about school, and I have told them my school schedule would be thurs fri saturday, that I wanted to put as many hours up until 2pm on thursday, not once did I say I wanted to work part time. I even said that if they needed to make up my hours with my vacation time to keep me as fulltime then I would agree to it. I was lead to believe that a monday through thursday until 2pm schedule was possible up until the week before last when I left for my trip to Barbados. My supervisor even showed me a schedule she was working on to propose to the manager for me. As luck would have it my supervisor went out on maternity leave while I was away on vacation and then when I return the administrator completely blindsides me with this.
I'm surprised at myself at how well I am taking all of this usually im a crying sniveling mess, I haven't shed one tear. I'm just so over that job. I went right to my desk after the meeting and emailed managers that I know in different departments asking them to keep their eyes out for jobs for me. I'm just going to search the web and find something else. If I need to take out extra loans to help with my rent and what not so be it and I also have my uncle who can help me. Im not going to let this get the best of me.
Yesterday I was freaking out and wondering why i was even going to nursing school, this whole situation has solidified that I did make the right choice to go forward with this. I know that I will experience crap like that with other jobs no matter what I do, but at least as a nurse I have the power of options.
sorry this was so long and thanks for listening.....
