Yes, many of the best people - whom I have worked with for a decade or more, have left. And the best of the replacements have all left, too. While a few good old timers are still sticking it out, most of the people I work with currently have no loyalty to either their coworkers (meaning they simply do not do their work, and those of us who still care are stuck with it as well as our own work, or they call in constantly, whether they are sick or not so again, we get stuck with doing the work of two people.) The reason so many good people have left is because of our snake of a supervisor, who stared about five years ago. This man lies as easily as he talks - we are actually shocked when he tells the truth, constantly messes with people just to show that he can (ie he is on a massive and constant power trip), and in general just runs around like a bull in a china shop destroying things for the sake of destruction, whether those things work or not. In addition, he really obviously hates women, gays, and whites and Asians - though he never outright says it so we can turn him in for it - he just lets his actions speak for him. Every gay and lesbian we had has left, because he makes them feel so uncomfortable - and one of those men who left is among the finest people I've ever known and a dear friend. It is horrible to see people like that - good people who are good workers - be driven out of a workplace over things that have absolutely nothing to do with work - while lazy grouchy bad employees are left alone. He never does anything about the rotten apples who are increasingly filling the barrell (in fact, he hired many of them). And he constantly adds work to the people who actually work - making them feel bitter and burned out, and some good people have gone over to the bad apple column as a result.
On a more personal level, I am really burned out on having to work with one particular person who I have to work closely with for 32 hours a week. She leaves all of her work until someone else does it - and someone else
has to do it, so the patients will receive care. She is always negative, and if she does not have anything nasty to say about someone she will make up nasty things untrue things on her own to spread around. She is paranoid, and attacks people for things she
thinks they have done or said, but they have not. I have seen her throw keyboards and stuff like that across the room in temper tantrums. The supervisors do nothing, because they never actually do anything about the bad employees. I stay as far away as I can, and try not to speak with her except about work related things, but there is a limit as to how far you can get away from someone in a small area.
After ten years of dealing with this crap with her, and five years of seeing a mass exodus of friends over poor and unfair treatment, I am reaching wits end. Throw in ever increasing duties (not even counting so often having to do the work of two or even three), and the fact that the evil supervisor is messing with me, too (soon I will have to come off of the shift I was promised to work when I hired in, and have worked for nearly 21 years to come in at 6AM rather than 1530PM just because he wants me to - a move which will cost me a lot of money in shift and Sunday premium - and yes, I have filed a union grievance) and I am just burned out and fed up. And he is forcing me to be trained to do duties that according to the national standards are above my pay grade level - and I have a union grievance pending over that, too. Yes, two union complaints from a person who has not had a single one in over twenty years.
I actually think I am burned out and fed up with health care in general. Everything is always an emergency, there is constant stress from the nature of the job, and I am really weary to the bottom of my heart of seeing sick and dying people on a daily basis.
I would really like to have a job where I get to see (and work with)
happy people for a change, if such a job actually exists.
Hell, at this point I would take a job sweeping up popcorn at the movie theater up the road if they offered health benefits. Free movies, no 6AM shifts, less pay but a lot less stress...
It really doesn't sound bad, and a five to ten minute drive straight up a main road rather than a twenty minute drive that crosses two freeways and the river and has a bunch of curves in the winter.
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I'm tired...actually just want to go home now, get some peace and quiet. Not long to go though.
