Why I Lost My Job!~ (A Vent)

 

 

 

A coworker went out on maternity leave to have her third child.  The transcription manger asked me to work full time while she was out.  I told her I would do my best.  I have medical issues going on that make it hard for me to sit and type 8 hours straight anymore and I had reverted to parttime two Autumns ago because of it.  She asked me to submit a schedule.  At the time, I had been working onsite because my computer at home was in the shop.  I really enjoyed it.  I told her I would like to drop my daughter off at school and come on into work.  I would work until about 2:00 PM, then leave to go pick up my daughter from school.  I would work the rest of the hours from home after she was picked up as I was needed.  My boss said okay.

 

Right after I submitted that schedule, I took a turn for the worse medically.  She had also told me if I forgot to clock in or out one more time, I would be written up.  She was going to write me up three times that last week, one for not working my schedule (I had submitted paperwork outlining my medical conditions, she said I didn't), one for forgetting the clock code (I didn't forget, I just used the wrong clock code), and one for telling one of the radiologists that I type for off (he so deserved it).  I had put up with his crap for two years.  I think I showed remarkable patience.  He is one of those kinds of people, you cannot please no matter how hard you try and believe me, I bent over backwards to try and please him to no avail.  The last weekend I had worked onsite with him, he reduced me to tears.  She wrote me up for insubordination.  She said I was insubordinate to her because I was to vent to her, not the doctor.  They didn't pay me enough to be abused by this man and to me, that is what is was, out-and-out abuse!~

 

My paperwork from my doc stated that I had cognitive issues such as concentration problems and memory loss.  I went straight to him and got it and took it back to her the last time she had written me up for not working my schedule.  I did not think it was fair that she was going to write me up for that again after I had submitted paperwork saying I had certain cognitive issues.

 

That last submitted schedule wasn't my schedule, it was a temporary schedule I was trying to work to help her out.  Nevermind that I got all of my work done every day, just not to their timetable (with only a couple of exceptions).

 

So.......I quit before she could write me up all those times.  I really think that is why she did it anyway, I think she wanted me to quit.  It's funny how my paperwork mysteriously disappeared.  She said I never submitted anything to her in writing about my medical conditions.  It was my word against hers.  I feel they should have believed me over her because I had 6.5 years in with them, she had only been there since the summer.

 

I have gone back to work for a former employer still doing medical transcription from home, but I don't mind telling you, it still hurts and that was the end of December.  I feel like when I needed the hospital the most, they turned their back on me.  I had always considered it a great place to work because their policy was "Go the last mile for your employee and they will go the last mile for you."

 

My former boss would have worked with me, not given up on me.  The only problem I had with my former boss is her mouth.  She loved to gossip and would go around telling things that should have been kept to herself being in a supervisory position, but given the choice, I would take the former overthe latter anytime.

 

I have thought about writing a letter with these points in them and request that my letter be put in my file, so if she should ever leave, it would be on record that I disagreed with all of her write-ups.

 

I had been written up twice before for not working my schedule.  Life has not been kind to us since we moved back to Alabama.  We had the issues of my son's divorce to contend with, I got wrote up twice (each time my former DIL filed court papers to take my son back to court for money.  I became inconsolable.  It felt like she was saying, the money means more to me than any of you ever did).  We also had my in-laws failing health to contend with and my medical issues, etc.  It did interfere with my work schedule.  I don't deny that.  We have a six-hour turn-around in transcription.  The reports need to be gotten out ASAP.  I understand that.  For the most part, I feel I did the best I could do.  The director over the department called me high maintenance.  I can't tell you how badly that hurt me, as I have always prided myself on doing a great job.  It felt like a knife going into my chest when she said that to me.

 

By quitting, it has left my family without insurance, but my stress level has gone waaaaay down, so in essence it was worth it.  I will have insurance again in 90 days.  I just pray nothing serious happens before then.  I have issues going on right now that need medical attention.

 

I have debated on whether or not to write a letter to HR and request that it be put in my file, but I really feel God leading me to let it go.  I have tried to give myself some distance from the situation to see if my perspective changed, it hasn't.

 

My prayer for the two superiors who were over me is that they never have to walk in my shoes.  As for the manager's "lie" that I never submitted anything to her in writing about my medical condition, I find it hard to believe that she would outright lie about it like that.  I would like to think she actually doesn't remember.  I guess I am too trusting.  I just know it still really, really hurts.

 

Signed,

 

Me