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I’ve worked as a travel nurse at a large hospital and I noticed that all of the nurses talked bad about each other. They would constantly criticize; especially new nurses, instead of encouraging each other to facilitate good teamwork. You could feel the negativity.
In LTC there are five or six long term people - admin and ADON, DON, Assistant Admin. Each department is part of the morning meeting. Wonderful.
Then management companies come into the picture. They get rid of peopel who confidently collaborate with the daily team while completing the management company's expected work. Working from home becomes expected and accepted,but people stay at work a short time and shuffle communication such that confusion on who to contact builds. How do you handle this or must one leave their salaried position?
Let's see, where do I begin? The red flags are pretty much equal in Florida. As the government here is 100% against anyone making under $150,000 a year, employers here think FLSA laws do not apply to them, and believe that harassment is proper conduct. As far as FLSA goes, instructing employees to work off the clock, bullying employees in front of everyone, and then getting corrective action for being a whistle blower. Legal action? Every single labor/employment law firm I have contacted want a fortune just for the consultation, or worse, never call back. Sorry I rambled, but an inclusive work culture doesn't exist anymore. They either like you or they don't.
Every single labor attorney here in FL has done the same to me. Why even bother to practice labor law is my question?
I started at one place when I was still fairly young, and the manager would yell at employees. Like nobody was safe from them, it could be over anyone. Some of the best people I worked with, and they were all miserable because of that one person that couldn’t act right.
A person in charge of an area where they have no training or expertise, especially in medical decision making.
A lack of integrity while billing patients and insurance companies. I got out of there!!!
When your boss has no idea how to do your job yet is correcting your work!
Chief
When they talk about family.
No one seems to understand a new employee that has never worked for that type of service needs training. I get told it takes time, there is a lot to learn, don't worry about being put out there with customers in the first few weeks, a lot is pretty much self taught, the test environment of the primary software doesn't fully line up with the live version making it difficult to practice in my self-taught expectation, the response to asking when I will be trained is that I am in training even though no one is training me, I am having to make up stuff to do to keep busy. I fight rush hour for this?!? Four weeks down and eight more to go and I will be free to look for a transfer.
When it was common knowledge who was sleeping with who and that’s why they get xyz
This company I work for now going on a year mandating OT I do not take well with mandates and feel like they're abusing it. So I've made it my business to start looking for another job.
For me, it was the lack of safety around MRI equipment, the lack of patient safety, the lack of policies and procedures for MRI, the toxic environment the COO created, and the constant employee turnover due to lack of raises.
People in management that got the position by being there for years with little professional education or training. It was a constant unnecessary power struggle. Our facility went through 4 maintenance directors in less than three years. I left for a different job when I discovered that the director of the kitchen was pushed out because he was not willing to do things that were against state requirements and not in the interest of the patients and the facility. I also became aware that equipment and systems I was responsible for were being sabotaged just before corporate visits. I wasn't effected because I noticed and corrected the issues quickly. It was a toxic environment. Not a term I use lightly. So I put in the required notice and left. The company also only paid me half of my earned PTO. Glad I left.
This is the truest statement ever! People in high positions with zero knowledge about how things really work!
Constant direspect
How the said culture is learning however it was more punitive
One of the biggest red flags is when the hygienist doesn't use enough prophy paste during the cleaning. If they don't redip every 2-3 teeth it can destroy the nerve of the tooth and costing the patient $2000 for a single root canal. The patient wonders why they need to go to endo when there's no cavity causing the issue and they have their plaque or flossing under control. Or they don't heat sterilize handpieces between each use. I might as well spit in your mouth. That back room can get crazy. You need a full tour and pay attention to uncommon sents in the sterilization room.
My friend worked at a now defunct company in the Phoenix area that read license plates. She was obese at the time and she said they would corner her in the bathroom and not let her leave until she did exercises. I told her they're lucky I didn't know about this then.
When one of the schedulers lies about looking for staff for the client of the nurse she doesn’t like. She also lies to people to manipulate the situation and commits Medicaid fraud but they keep her because “her numbers are good”.
when nearly everyone on my first day said the exact same thing "the boss is an asshole". chalked it up to gossip and just worker mindset but ya it was actually true.
Yes thats a Big Red Flag when everyone is scared to talk. I've seen a bit of that aswell
When a new company took over the hospital I worked at for 10+ years sent out an email in February stating that whatever PTO we had left on December 31 would automatically be lost on January 1 if not used. We could no longer roll over any PTO nor could we sell it back. Also, if you quit, they would not pay you the PTO you had built up. Everyone was blindsided by this & I had over 100+ hours of PTO!
Then, to make matters worse, I worked on the women’s unit (postpartum/OB), and the company decided to just close the unit down. No meeting, no warning. Just an email sent to all the nurses/managers/workers of the unit that they had 1 month to find another job. Thank goodness I had listened to my gut feeling & had quit 3 months prior to this.