I need job advice for my husband:Please helpful replies. (employee, tips)

[GivemeAnswersplz]

We moved to a new city in April when he was offered a job in a hospital here. We uprooted ourselves when he got a job where they made it seem he would be doing a job that needed a go getter with experience to fix up their department.

He's in materials, not a doctor or nurse. He has to provide the operating rooms with materials, stock, and so on for operations.

They never trained him for this job properly; he has plenty of experience in inventory, stock and so forth from another hospital where he ran the dept single handedly. However this place is not like that. It's much more stressful and hectic.

They never trained him in their numerous and outdated and varying procedures. They are unwilling to do it any differently dispite his suggestions and ideas about standardizing information to make ordering and inventory easier.

Instead they just told him he is not meeting their unrealistic standards.

In fact, apparently no one who has ever held the job, he found out, has been 'good enough' including the woman who was in the position 20 years.

His manager rules the dept with punitive measures. She has a large amount of responsibility and routinely yells at the staff. She cries about how much overtime SHE has to work. When he was hired he was told they would have occasional overtime but now she says he was told it was a requirement of the job (he will work overtime when he can).

He often misses breaks or lunch and is constantly doing something. It's like trying to fill in a hole with a spoon.

The workload is really a job for 2 people and he cannot ever catch up. Meanwhile they have someone else 'helping' out who doesn't do anything. The other day the boss yelled at my husband for 'not doing his job' in front of the 'lazy coworker.'

Now all the stress of the job has come to a head. My husband is looking for other work but with the recession it's not easy.

Does anyone have any tips to deal with 'psycho bosses' and 'lazy coworkers?' He has ALWAYS been praised at any job he'd had but this one is just a bad fit.

I don't have a full time job due to family commitments with our child, who due to autism, is home schooled for the present time.

The stress is bad all around. We've gone through bad patches but every night he comes home angry and moody and takes it out on us.

What do you do when you are doing the best you can and the boss just insists you suck (despite them telling you last week you were doing a good job?) and other coworkers saying you are doing a great job?

[STT Resident]

A hospital has a pretty extensive hierarchy so your husband's boss has to account to people above her. It seems obvious from what you say that this job isn't going to work out for your husband as it stands but there is something he could do which might work out.

He's had experience with this sort of job before and knows how it should be run. If I were him I would write to the boss with a copy to the boss's boss and whoever else on the chain is relevant and point out (without going into too much detail) how time is being wasted and why things aren't running as smoothly as they should, at the same time offering suggestions on how to improve productivity and reduce costs.

You've already uprooted yourselves for this job, it's not going to work out as its presently set up and your husband really has very little to lose by demonstrating that he is indeed the person they were looking for when "they made it seem he would be doing a job that needed a go getter with experience to fix up their department."

Good luck!

[Hemlock140]

Hospitals are usually big enough to have someone responsible for handling employee relations, and handle harassment complaints to avoid lawsuits.

Yelling at an employee is grounds for discipline and even dismissal. If there are witnesses to this kind of behavior a formal complaint should be made with witness names to support the claim. Have him check the written policies for any details about the process. Naturally such a complaint will not make his boss happy, so there could be some unpleasant times ahead, but people have the right to be treated with respect. He could certainly talk to the right person in HR about his options before making a formal complaint.

[manderly6]

I know this is extremely easy to say and not easy to do, but your husband just has to not let it get to him. Jobs are only stressful if someone lets them be. He pretty much has to stop caring.

And of course look for another job.

[mash potato]

Originally Posted by GivemeAnswersplz

His manager rules the dept with punitive measures. She has a large amount of responsibility and routinely yells at the staff.

How long has your husband's manager been in that position?

If she has a large amount of responsibility and has been there awhile, chances are her managers are going to side with her if he complains to someone other than her. He could lose his job just for going over her head.

If he doesn't complain to someone else, he has to put up with the manager.

If he continues to accept being yelled at, they'll keep him. They probably know the job is impossible for one person. She'll probably stop yelling if he yells back. It's all about how far a person thinks they can go. If he yells back, they'll probably still keep him, with the small possibility that he may lose the job.

In the long run, it sounds like they will put up with whomever is in the position, as long as that person continues to produce and accept poor treatment. They'll probably keep him until he leaves. The question is, how much nonsense is your husband willing to accept before he decides that something has to change?