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I've been on the schedule regularly for 4 years. Initially 2-3 days/week, until I took a p/t time (after it became clear they weren't going to have any openings any time soon) and then 1-2 days/week from March through Dec, and then just a couple days a month Jan and Feb.
There are 2 people retiring at the end of the year. They suddenly hired the per diem who is a friend and been in this lab for a couple decades, plus they hired back another tech who used to work in this lab and left 18 months ago.
No job posting, no warning. I found out when I checked the schedule at the UC center a couple weeks ago, saw they'd finally posted the Sept. schedule and I wasn't on it.
Told me the following week that they were now "overhired" so can't schedule any per diems until both techs retire. That means not until January.
Apologized for forgetting to call me the Saturday after the schedule was posted. Like they didn't know before then, and couldn't possibly have told me face-to-face the week before when I was at the hospital on a weekday.
It's called adding insult to injury. 
It sounds very corporate. So sorry. In the long run you'll come out ahead. Just wait and see.
sometimes it takes actually getting into a situation that's always been fairly flexible, and is now demanding hard hours, to sharpen one's perspective.
I've seen more than my fair share of folks who think they'll love being full time at the barn, but once the daily drudgery sinks in, they bolt. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. These part timers may find the laid back treatment they've been getting all these years at the lab changes as they need to step up to the plate and press hard into the collar.
Good luck. Sounds like you didn't burn any bridges which is always good.
being bought out by a bigger hospital in the same town. The newspaper articles say they'll be able to re-apply for their same jobs at the bigger hospital. I suspect they're saving her from that, even though she was doing per diem on the side at that hospital for a while. She probably couldn't cut it there. The problem for all of us is the lab chain has all the advanced bloodbanking and microbiology sent to them, so 2 key sets of skills are lost. Use it or lose it.
She's a medical technologist and when I first trained there had just been promoted to Blood Bank section lead. My first week in that rotation, she had a typing discrepancy and totally melted down, shrieking, "I don't know what to do, MT, I don't know what to do! I've always been a generalist! I don't know what to do!"
It was so surreal, I thought she was testing me. So I took a deep breath and calmly said, we'll just look at the manual to see the procedure. I looked it up and it turned out all we needed to do was draw an extra tube and send it to the reference lab to be worked up. Any xfusions in the interim would be ONeg. But she wasn't testing me. She was just in total meltdown, running in circles shrieking. It took a while to calm her down.
She's sabotaged me a couple of times, and I'll never forget the night we had a body fluid and she was screaming at me and screaming at me, until I told her if she didn't stop screaming I'd have to leave. At which point she started screaming, "GET OUT! GET OUT! GO HOME! EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU HATE IT HERE, SO JUST GET OUT!" I can't remember anything after that, other than that I managed somehow to process the body fluid. I just can't do even simple math when people are screaming at me.
When I told the night tech they'd hired her back, he was in shock, lol. "What?!? Why did they hire J back? She left here...doesn't loyalty count for anything?"
Dollars to donuts they had a big meeting with the rest of the techs to let them know they were hiring her back. They did that when they moved D, the tech I've been covering for while on disability, back from the UC to the hospital. Nobody could stand D.
The other one is still 2 days/week and will still tell them when she is and isn't available. She married to a big name in town (she has the same last name as the town mountain). And she's from the high school group -- they grew up together, went to school together (and never really left when they went to work together).
Although they are in downsize by attrition mode, I never expected this with D out on disability for good, 2 techs retiring and 1 due to retire at any time. It just makes no sense. 
I'm hoping I get hired at the animal shelter. I put an application in on Thursday. They have 1 day week/open with possibility of more days in future.
hope it all works out 
I'm glad you can get out of that toxic place. Yeah, toxic.
Take care of yourself (I know you are!) and let us know how things are going...
