yippee...just lined up 2 more job references, so I've got the 3 I need

[magical thyme]

now I can complete my applications and get them out tonight, and hopefully get interviews, etc. befire I get fired. I put on them that I've never been fired...I'd hate them to verify my employment there only to have just been fired....

It feels so much better to get this back under my control

[In_The_Wind]

1. Congratulations! See. I told you that you could do it!

[JimDandy]

2. Do not bother to reply to me...

Hurry and get them out. And Good Luck to you!

[magical thyme]

5. I'm going to reply anyway...

thank you!

One application is complete except for filling in names and #s. That's the one I will put out tonight, and possibly one other.

I've already talked to my lab supervisor at my other, preferred part-time work. I've been per diem there for 2 1/2 years. I'm now set for Saturday 1st shift for sure, plus she said she'll help me in any way possible since I'm going to apply at a "sister" hospital within out same lab chain. So I'm phoning the lab chain tomorrow morning to see how to apply (there aren't any openings posted, but per diem is just fill as needed and I'm already trained on their systems and have been through their hiring and orientation process plus am experienced on their instruments, policies, procedures and protocols).

[JimDandy]

8. That is a long time

for a lab to rely on temp employees. I hope you can get a stable job in your preferred field.

[magical thyme]

9. they have mostly regular employees and depend on a couple per diems

to fill in spaces. Everybody starts this work as per diem, and then either is hired or not.

I could have gone part time doing nights 2 years ago, but I simply can't do nights and can't do 13 hour shifts, let alone both at once. The person who took the job is already having health issues and personal issues as a result, and she's 20 years younger than I am.

I had the opportunity to apply for a part-time day job there a year ago, but declined the opportunity based on the situation leading up to it. I'm hoping another one will turn up.

They basically shrank to a skeleton crew due to the merger of 2 hospitals into one full service hospital and one "urgent care" center. They can't afford to train anybody else, but now that our issues have had time to heal, hopefully will open a position for me now that I've reached out to them.

It's a long story, but I had a crazy start there, in part due to their previous hire who was a deadbeat/porn addict, one lead tech who hated me on sight, and a brain-damaged, alcoholic divorced janitor who, with encouragement from an idiot of a phlebotomist, decided I was going to date him and stalked and harassed me for my 1st year. I was reluctant, but forced early on in my new job, to file a harassment complaint against the phlebotomist who told him I was going to date him, which was a shitty way to start out and they didn't really quite believe me which is how I ended up being stalked. Anyway, he has been gone for a year now and moved far away. It has taken some time for me to heal.

[elleng]

3. Good you've got the references, and things under control.

Is it mandatory that you state you've never been fired, especially as it sounds like you think you will be???

[magical thyme]

4. it was a question on one of the job applications...

which I answered "no" too. I just don't want to look like a liar.

Where I'm at looks like they're going to replace us with temps for lower pay/no benefits, and I think I'm moving up the hit list. It wasn't lost on me when I returned to work there last January that the entire night team for my client was new except for the lead rep. New manager and all new people on the phones. How did a manager and 5 or 6 associates disappear all at once?

The VP started looking worried and distracted last spring -- he's usually smiling and friendly. Now, not so much. Just stays out of sight and looks worried.

Several months ago our manager told us they were going to be going through all our instant messages making sure we weren't using the system for non-biz use. Not a problem for me. The next night she told us they'd be going back in history...she looked worried. A week later, they walked 3 long-termers out the door for a old infraction. Since then people have been disappearing one at a time. One says she quit, but that may have been to save face. In the meantime, they have started putting temporary people out on the phones.

I had a perfect quality record until last August, when the external QC failed one of my calls. I contested it because when I listened to the recording it was clear they made it up. Seriously -- they said I didn't tell the S/O that their cost basis method was FIFO and there I am clear as day stating that to them. They made several other claims that were equally false. Failed calls are supposed to be "scrubbed" -- that is, multiple managers or leaders listen to it and see if it can be contested and to provide coaching to the CSR. I'm guessing because it was a long call, nobody had the time to because they'd pulled a 30 minute call instead of the usual 5 or so minute. After I contested it, my manager blew me off. I was never given serious feedback and they never attempted to contest it. Then I had a perfect month again in Sept. And then in Oct. none of my calls was pulled for external quality, but I "failed" internal quality using new, tougher standards than for external quality -- standards which they have never bothered to share with us. We don't get to listen to those calls either, so they can make any claim they want -- it doesn't have to be part of the client's or external quality's requirements and it doesn't have to even be real.

In the meantime, I found out a few days ago that my manager put me on "Verbal notice" for quality issues and if my quality doesn't improve I'll go on "written notice."

Meh. I'm being set up. Other associates have had failed calls over and over, and have had problems escalated to the client without being put on notice. Instead, they were pulled off the phones and given extra training, crossed trained onto smaller clients that can't afford external quality, etc. My guess is that this year will be a repeat of last year, and the manager and her team will all be gone with the new year, if not sooner, to avoid paying time and a half at Christmas.

[elleng]

6. Good, you did the right thing.

If the company will be laying people off for its own reasons, and your and others' dismissals won't be truly based on personal reasons, in the future you'll be able to explain they 'replaced us with temps for lower pay/no benefits.'

'Break a leg!'

[IrishAyes]

10. Best of everything to you.

That's my favorite part of retirement, not having to deal with business savagery anymore. I was stalked too - by a boss on more than one occasion. They take one look at a single woman and mistake us for easy targets. I'll never forget the venture capitalist who literally chased me around his office desk, yelling "You don't understand how business works!" As soon as the loan for my house went through, I stayed behind at lunch and gathered my things, leaving after I put a note on his computer. It said that I had copied his hard drive and if he harrassed me any further or even said one bad word about me to anyone, I'd turn the hard drive copy over to the Feds. He left me alone.

Now I had no earthly idea how to copy his hard drive, but he didn't know I didn't know and I did know there had to be stuff on there that could get him in big trouble. Just the threat was enough.

[magical thyme]

11. retirement -- so near and yet so far...

1 year, 10 months, 40 days plus the sale of my house at 150% of bankruptcy price. Not that I'm counting or anything.

[Phentex]

12. That's great! I really want to copy cat with just lined up 2 more mob references...

but don't want to steal your joy!

Great news for you!!!

[magical thyme]

13. Making me lol won't steal my joy...

Love it!!!! Go for it