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Good for you. It must have been sad for you to see all the people whose accounts you had to deactivate. Where I work, 600 people were laid off and another 900 open positions will go unfilled. Thankfully our department wasn't in the crosshairs so no one got the axe. But our boss explained to us that that is why she has been such a bear to us about keeping our productivity up, so our department would stay off the radar. Hopefully we will aquire some additional states for our business, and business in general will pick up. Congrats on being safe!
Pam
I know the feeling you describe, Sue, if only vicariously. My neighbors (they are a couple) work at the same place (not a hospital) and layoffs are widespread there too. They have been spared so far, and I'm glad for them, but for those single mothers that got laid off, it really really sucks.
This is going to get worse before it gets better, I'm afraid.
SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN
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Today was a hideous day. 15 positions were cut - only one clinician - but it was horrible to wait. As I'm in IT I got all the requests to de-activate user accounts and my heart broke for every single one of the people I know who lost their job today.
It was state funding cuts that drove it.
In one department when the sacrifice was announced all the other girls burst into tears, great gulping sobs, of some sadness for T, but more relief that they had been reprieved.
I feel like Winston in 1984. "Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia!" Dirty and foul and, yes, human and of course self-interested, but demeaned and lessened.
Sad.