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We've been losing qualified medical personnel left and right...
A 40% raise, retirement and family health benefits is all it takes. Lost 20 % in the last 6 months and all but one landed at our competitor a not for profit.
It was not always like this...
20 years ago we were a magnet for the best and brightest.
Management changed and it has been downhill ever since... We are a for profit and the Physician owners are not seeing enough profit.
The latest straw is a use it or lose it vacation policy...
Problem is several have put in to use it and have been told no because there is no one to cover for them since so many have left...
Contrary to the title... we do realize it and many have responded by leaving...
IF everyone would simply start taking their vacation - this would no longer be a problem. The problem lies when one or two people start forfeiting their vacation (management included) ~ then everyone else is measured by that yardstick.
Take your vacation people!
When you are dying - you will NOT wish you would have worked that one additional day . . . . . . you'll lament at the lack of vacations you took; the fun you didn't have; the family you didn't spend time with.
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I used to accumulate just to have more available if I did decide on a long one, and was up to 400+ hours. This past year, I have taken a total of 3 weeks, and have one more week coming up in November. I never worry about my employer
thinking how well they managed without me, on the contrary it's more likely that things will pile up and they will be glad to have me back since no one takes my place. As a manager, the director I report to has to handle any issues while I'm gone and doesn't like to have to get that much into detail. We can only accumulate up to 440 hours now or will have to sell back the excess. Most of my people are at about 100 hours on the books, and earning about 200 hours a year.
Thought these were pretty obvious ways American workers are getting screwed. Even worse when you look at Canada and European counties who are making policies that give workers more time off, shorter days, and better work life balance. To succeed in America you got to work like a horse just to stay afloat.
#3 is right on the money. With the competition for jobs and the economy in general, I feel many employees like myself feel a 'pressure' to not take too much time off due to work schedule.
I'm sure some of you may poo-poo this notion and this article in general, that's fine, perhaps you work for yourself and all, but it's the reality for a lot of workers.
My employer is described in this article, even the HR regional director said the company was all take and no give. While corporate is starting to get more stringent with lunch breaks (read: they got busted) I make the concerted effort to take my lunch (the full hour), and because I work in the field if I'm not home 30-60 min before my shift ends I won't write/respond to email until the next day. I also won't answer phone calls or texts after hours and when I'm on vacation all work related electronics are shut off and put in the closet.
"To succeed in America you got to work like a horse just to stay afloat."... agreed, the rest of the world hates the American worker. The corporations all wish we would go away so they could hire cheap foreign labor. We are just in the way of them making huge-r profits.
And politicians really just seem interested in buying more votes by pandering to the undocumented and the people w/govt jobs.
For the record, I have always taken all of my vacations, I only get 2 weeks total - no paid sick days, only unpaid. What irks me is when these companies don't let their new hires take ANY paid time off for the first year. WAY to burn out your new employees
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