#bad workplace

[slayer-of-titans]

Why I Left Sarasota Memorial Hospital

I have decided to post in length my story about my experience at Sarasota Memorial Hospital and why I left my job there. I know it may seem somewhat personal, but I want to spread awareness of the corruption among management there. One might be able to see what I'm doing as "whistleblowing" because it involves retaliation (which is against company policy) and making my job so bad in order for me to quit (pretty sure that's against OSHA guidelines or something).

There was one incident on June 1 when a nurse snapped at me and I approached her afterward and told her that she could have been less condescending. I was willing to let it go after I got that off my chest, but then she grabbed the executive director to mediate. Granted, I did not even know who she was. Her name tag said that she had an LMSW so I assumed that she was one of the social workers but it turned out that she was actually the executive director. Anyway, she talked down on me, told me that I was being inappropriate and that nurses are above me and that they do not need to explain themselves. Whenever I tried to explain my side of the story, she kept interrupting. She also kept asking me if this was my first job like this, and I explained multiple times that it is not as I have worked at a behavioral health center for a year (and was continuing to work there PRN). I also have a bachelor's in psychology which IS indicated on my name tag so I don't place myself that far beneath the nurses since I have education relevant to my job as well. I did cry a little afterward because of the way that I was treated but not in front of patients or anything.

Everything still seemed fine after that until one day when I was called upstairs at the start of my shift. The DON told me that in two weeks I was being moved to the overnight shift, stating that they needed more females on that shift and that since I was in my first 90 days, they were allowed to do this. I asked to see the policy that allows her to do this and she said that she would show it to me later but she never did. They claimed that the move was only temporary but that they could not give me a time frame. They also implied that I had the opportunity to move back to second shift after but it sounded like they could keep me there permanently if that is where they wanted me. Keep in mind that I was interviewed and hired for the 3-11 shift.

I used to work overnight at my last job so I know that I can't handle being nocturnal. It had a negative impact on my physical and mental health. I told the DON this, and still offered to help out by picking up some overnight shifts, but she would not let up and said that I needed to be flexible. She did also admit that this was partially in retaliation for my run in with that nurse but told me that this would have happened anyway. She also did not understand why I had gotten upset, thinking I was upset with a patient who was acting out. Everybody who works with me at Palm Shores knows that this is nowhere near enough to bother me. When I explained the real reason why I was upset, she explained to me that nurses just get short sometimes due to the stress of their jobs and that I just have to put up with it.

I was obviously upset after that and my co-workers at Bayside (the building at the hospital that I worked at) who had worked there for years told me that they had never heard of someone being forced to change shifts before. They encouraged me to tell the DON that if she wanted me to work there, that I would be on the shift I was hired for. When I said this, she smiled and said "Then I have no choice but to accept your two-weeks notice." I also pointed out that if she lost me, she would be short someone for second shift and still need someone to work third as well. She did not care. So she would have rather lost me completely than allow me to continue working second shift full time.

I called my manager at my old job and offered to come back full time on first or second shift and then also contacted HR at Sarasota Memorial about my situation. HR responded with multiple behavioral concerns filed against me, most of which happened AFTER they informed me I was being switched to overnights.One of the behavioral concerns was against me crying after they told me I was being moved to overnight shifts. But of course I cried about that. They railroaded me with that at the start of my shift and they weren't just making me change my shift but my entire lifestyle. They also alleged that I had walked away from a 1:1 even though I had another tech step in for me. The HR person also did not even know what a 1:1 is. Go figure.

HR said they would get back to me and immediately after the call my manager at Palm Shores offered me a full time first shift. This seemed like a clear sign from the universe so I accepted. I called back and had to leave a message saying that I no longer wished to work there but still offered to work my shift that day so that the ratio would not be short. When I arrived, the DON left me a message saying that she did not even want me to work that day so I just turned in my keys. My old job, on the other hand, welcomed me back warmly with open arms.

Could I have at least put in my two weeks? Yes, but that would have given the DON two more weeks to sabotage me and try to make my time there miserable. Sometimes, it is actually better to quit without notice, especially when you are in such a toxic environment.

Edit: forgot to mention that I've looked at other reviews on Indeed and found the following:

"Management focused on being punitive rather than encouraging and morale driven. New upper management at Bayside Behavioral Health is deceitful, threatening and retaliatory. HR does not intervene until flooded with complaints. Then they do the bare minimum. In any other state the environment would be consistent with bulling and a hostile work environment. Constantly being told by the DON that she has free will to fire anyone. No process or protocol followed, she just says your fired. New facility director has no clue and is being hand fed by the DON negative and derogatory lies about staff in which she has now lost all credibility with staff and lacks any leadership connection."

[the-artificial-human]

I’m leaving a job I’ve loved for years, because it has gone so down hill.

I’ve loved working at a doggie daycare for the last four and a half years. I’ve bonded with the dogs who come in to play, they are my babies. I love them all very much and leaving them breaks my heart.

In early February I got offered a front desk position at a vet not far from the daycare. It’s not much more pay wise, but it’s a consistent schedule with guaranteed 40 hours every week instead of 32 some and 60 others. The company has much better mental health awareness as well. When I first started in early February, my goal was to keep a day a week at the daycare so I could still see my babies. Not only has that turned out to be unsustainable, but other factors have left me making the decision to leave.

Several months ago they begged me to step up and be a shift lead. I gave them requirements: a raise, REAL training for the position (I’ve been a shift lead before and got thrown in with almost no training) and the chance to go to another location that isn’t as understaffed to learn from their leads. I only got the raise, despite being promised all three requirements. The moment I was a shift lead again, I was treated like absolute shit. I was given no support whatsoever when it came to running shifts. Not only was I given no support, I was treated like a burden for needing support and talked down to constantly when I couldn’t do something I had never been trained to do. I wasn’t given breaks for months, despite legally being required to give them to us, and would get yelled at by management if they thought I was even attempting to take so much as five minutes to catch my breath. I was working shifts over 15 hours over the holidays without any breaks at all, and was treated like absolute shit for wanting to sit for five minutes.

I took the front desk position immediately because of how awful I’ve been being treated. Two weeks ago, I learned that one of the other leads, who was the newest lead before I stepped back up, has been talking mad shit about me to everyone behind my back for months. Not only that, but someone has been spreading rumors to pet parents that a previous employee, a close friend of mine that I’m moving in with in April, was abusing dogs and that that is why she no longer works at the daycare. This person is someone I know extremely well, that would be the opposite of who she is as a person. I learned that all the other shift leads except me were told this, and specifically told not to say anything to me, or the associates that are friends with her. It feels very suspicious to me - I’d think they’d want the people who are friends with her to know if she legitimately did do something. But from what I’ve been told by the one person willing to tell me about it, they were not shown any kind of evidence (there are cameras everywhere and if something had happened there would have been meetings with the whole staff per company policy and the videos would have been shown to the leads) and basically told “trust me.”

That’s already bad enough. Then yesterday, after work at the vet, we stopped by to get some stuff on our way home and I said hi to some of the people at the daycare part of the store. I was texted almost immediately after we left by an associate on staff that the shift leads immediately began talking shit about both me and my friend as soon as we left. In front of associates and where they could be heard by clients. That is so insanely unacceptable. I’ve already caught them spreading rumors about current and previous employees at the store and caught them lying directly to my face multiple times over the last six months. I’m tired of the Mean Girl bullshit that’s been taking over the daycare for months now, and I honestly won’t be surprised if I’m not given the chance to have an exit interview after my last shift tomorrow because they know I’ll call out everything that’s been going on to whoever comes from HR to do it.

I’m just so tired of the way they’ve been treating us and the shit talking and spreading rumors. I don’t feel like I could stay there anymore even if I hadn’t learned about them talking shit about me to associates, because it absolutely would make it hard to work with any new people who come in and don’t know me. I’m so sad to leave, but I feel free knowing I won’t have to deal with the middle school drama from a bunch of grown ass adults anymore

[reasoningdaily]

Boss Decided To Fire Good Employee Because They Refused To Come In On The Weekend

Boss Decided To Fire Good Employee Because They Refused To Come In On The Weekend

The OP and the said boss had disagreements in the past, but this time, the OP stood their ground and refused to budge.

The OP tells Bored Panda that he shared this story partly out of frustration and just wanted to vent. But he also wanted to make sure that he didn’t make the wrong next step. “I also hope my story can help be a warning to people,” the Redditor tells us. “That despite how hard of a worker you are, and how much they claim they value you, you are replaceable to them.”

The OP also told us more about what the unpleasant work environment at his last job was like. “[It] was up and down a lot,” the employee admits. “I had workers who I got along with and others who I butted heads with.” According to the Redditor, one colleague would “throw tantrums all the time,” and u/TylPlas26 has recounted these stories on other subreddits before.

“Another worker acted like a know-it-all,” the Redditor goes on. This individual would boss the OP around despite not having the same government training. “Luckily, I [ignored] him on that because a few things he suggested would actually be against the law [or were things] that would get me into a lot of trouble.”

“Another worker gave me the silent treatment a lot and was insulting me behind my back,” the Redditor tells us. There’s also a longer story with this individual, which the OP recounted for us as well.

“Last year, I had to have minor surgery. And there was a miscommunication on when I would return. So he was called in on the day they thought I was returning, which was his day off. After that, he started the silent treatments.”

“I don’t know where the miscommunication was. I suffer from a TBI (traumatic brain injury), so my memory can be off. So I don’t know if it was me who miscommunicated or [if] the staff heard me wrong.”

“But because of my TBI, I suffer from frequent and intense headaches that would keep me in bed the whole day. Every time I would call out [of] work sick because of one, this coworker would go back to giving me the silent treatment for a week or so,” the Redditor shares.

According to the OP, the boss was also not a dream manager

As for the OP’s boss, the Redditor says that he lacked communication skills. He had many more similar stories and shared one about a stolen day off. “He crossed out one of my vacation days without consulting me in any way within a week of my vacation starting, saying, ‘I didn’t realize how [short-staffed] we would be when I approved it. So I figured if you were still home, you could work it.'”

The boss also repeatedly demonstrated how he didn’t respect OP’s time and personal life. He tried to get the OP to make deliveries past his shift. “When I refused, he said he could do what I was gonna do that night while I do the delivery.” When the OP’s grandma went into surgery, the boss apparently wanted him back on the job the next day.

“He would always promise customer or friends deliveries from where I worked, without first checking to make sure it was possible,” the OP goes on. For some time, the author was also the only driver doing deliveries, but the boss didn’t have a problem assigning him more, even if his day was full.

A lot of these deliveries were also to the boss’ friends or family members – not sketchy at all. “He lacks any kind of leadership skills that a boss needs to possess,” the Redditor believes.

So, as a person working in retail for 15 years, the OP also has some wise words for people whose bosses take advantage of them. “Don’t be afraid to stand up for yourself,” he says. “If they demand for you to give up your regular time off, don’t.”

“If they don’t value your time off, it means they don’t value you as a person. They only see you as a body that’s helping [bring] money for them. Money comes first, employee lives and wellbeing are so far down their list, [it’s] virtually nonexistent to them,” the OP concludes.

[anneswritingnook]

What Goes Around...

This is the final piece from The Writer’s Mess writing challenge, where I had two songs “I think We’re Alone Now”, and “The Middle” to write two characters with an adversarial relationship. I ended up with office adversaries for this one, playing off the older woman stuck in the 80’s and a younger intern doing all the work. It started off sad, but gets a twist in the middle of it, that I think…

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[avian4653]

Sometimes I feel like I'm just a quickly trained A.I. like whoever was in charge of teaching me just decided to hand me to a newly hired intern who knows nothing about teaching A.I. so they learned as much as they could before they needed to work on me but it wasn't enough and I am now the reason they switched career paths.

[yellow-lemon-lime]

If you think unions aren’t good for nothing, let me tell you about the baker trainee, whose parents told his boss “Don’t pay him, he gets allowance at home” When the boy told his union, they were straight on the case, and he got 100.000s of DKK in compensation

Don’t be fooled by thinking your workplace will never screw you over

[from-the-field]

The Home Depot

Whenever I get a Homer Badge, a Bravo card, or some employee-of-the-month plaque in lieu of a living wage for the more than ten years of service I've given The Home Depot, I think about Marie Antoinette telling the French peasantry they can eat cake. Then I think about guillotines.

[lonestark-blog]

How To Cope In a Bad Workplace

How To Cope In a Bad Workplace

You’ve come to the right post if you want to know how to cope in a bad workplace and seek an alternative whilst working in one. For you there could be many reasons why you detest working in a particular environment. For me there was several reasons but I had to learn how to cope in a bad workplace whilst building my business.

Indications That You Are In a Bad Workplace

There are many signs that…

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