The evil that men do

I just got news, it's unofficial, that my manager came back from vacation and they asked her to leave. I knew what goes around will come around for her but this soon? i was expecting it to happen later. We've had so many people quit on our unit it's pathetic. Staff are complaining and unhappy. Each day i pray i have a job. I was actually planning on quitting sometime this year before my evaluation.

I've been reading the book of Daniel and i was thinking about how God humbles these proud rulers. Last year, i thought Belshazzar's destruction came too soon. Looks like i'm seeing something similar manifest.

Nothing is permanent in this life. My manager was someone with great nursing skills. How to talk to people and deal with staff was a whole different issue. I feel like she worked hard and she did suck up to the administration. She was the on-call person at odd times when i'm sure no one else wanted to be on call, like during the snow emergency and on weekends. I know she put her heart into her work on the unit. I know she's saved the hospital money. She did do some unethical stuff, such as not paying people who stayed over after 7:30 to complete their work, she made us clock out after work for staff meetings and while she kept us there for 2hrs, she only paid us for 45minutes. She threatened people, she knew very well that the job market for nurses is bad and she brandished that fact around and said i'll fire you and hire someone else because i know many people who can't find a job. She was petty and flaky.

I guess there's soo much management can take. I wondered for a second if she took a minute to wonder why people were leaving our unit. But then i figured that if she's looking at it from the point of view that they're quitting because they can't do the job and i can always hire someone else, then she's likely to see herself as the major reason why people left. We've had 5 techs on nights quit, 3 on dayshift, so many nurses have quit it's not worth counting. I think the recent exodus of 5 nurses from dayshift this month, including one who's worked there for 9years did it.

Oh well, i feel relieved. Whew! exhaling....