Skylar even before they closed there doors for good you did the right thing. In the corporate world you are nothing but a number sad as that is to say. I am in health care and live in a small town where everybody knows each other and are neighbors. After 11 years with the home town hospital, being there when we where independent, then merged with one other hospital, then the "big" great merge with Ministry. And giving them everything they ever needed 11 years with only one sick day, coming in anytime they called when it was busy, or someone else called in sick, covering the clinic in town when they where short, basically being the best employee I knew how to be. Then my daughter was born 7 weeks early and spent 3 weeks in NICU so I had to take 6 weeks of FMLA to be there for both of them and take care of both of them. I returned to work and work 1 full day on the second day right after lunch my "boss" and neighbor that lives one block away walks me in the office and says sorry your SOL there is the door dont let it hit you in the arse. Got the whole big packet of let us help you anyway we can is there anything we can offer you bla bla bla call our job specialist they will help you anyway then can. 30 days after being shown the door there was an opening at another Ministry hospital just down the road the boss there was trying to get me over there for a long time when I was working in my town, I called the HR person that walked me to the door and said "if there is ever anything we can do, just let us know" she said you are free to apply on-line like anybody else would do. So I did got a call from the Milwaukee office and had a phone interview, blew the girl away because I knew everybody I would be working with knew the computer systems the equipment, I could walk in the door tomorrow and start being a productive employee. She said I could expect to hear from the boss at the new site and have a face to face interview with in a week. Less then 12 hrs later I get the thank you but "f" you email from the hr person " sorry we found someone more qualified to fill the spot" That was a year ago and they still have openings posted in the area. It is nothing but a big corporate world and people that you work with for years like me with 11 years working with my boss and neighbor and the "catholic" health care system and there "today tomorrow together" catch phrase that they change every couple months. I have to laugh because it might be today tomorrow together you just never know who you are going to see tomorrow when you go back. For the last 5 years we have seen this every couple months where they just go through and clean house always walking the people with the most experance or years with them to the door and then bringing in new grads with "0" experance to take there place. I cant tell you how many people with 10, 20, or even 30+ years of time with them would walk in the door one morning on there way to work just to be walked into the office and then walked back out the front door. Dont feel bad about leaving and doing what was best for you, you are the only one with your best interest in mind. I still have the knives in my back from my "boss and neighbor" the others that where in my department and all live within a half mile of me and the great catholic giant Ministry. The only good news I have gotten since the time it happened is that my bosses position at the sister hospital is gone, they sent out an e-mail telling everybody she is being fired and will be gone as soon as they hire a replacement or she finds another job and that her spot and my ex bosses spot will be replaced with one person that will over see both hospitals. My ex boss has no education in managment and only got the spot based on years on the job, I cant wait for the day she walks in the front door and gets walked back out after 28 years with the same place, and feels what it is like to have the knive in her back.
