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erieangel -> Vacation--May not be good (5/9/2013 8:15:15 AM)
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OK so my boss tells me to take a 3 day vacation because I haven't had a vacation in more than 2 years and I'm maxed out on the vacation hours that I can accrue.
To clarify, I've had time off work during those 2 years, but they've been sick days and mental health days. I haven't really taken time off work just for the hell of it--just for the sake of taking a vacation.
So anyway, my vacation started yesterday. On Tuesday, I found that my boss was going to be in an important meeting yesterday morning that would, in part, deal with the future of the program for which I work. Budget cuts and the fact that our program currently services only 6 people, at maximum has been of concern since the change from county funding to HMO funding for services.
Of course, I would have rather have not known about the upcoming meeting, at all. I would have preferred to have gone on vacation totally oblivious to what was going on at the agency. I knew some it. The house is being taken over by another program, which we've known for over a month, but it had been expect even when that was announced that our program would be moved, because the agency is moving quite a few residential programs around. But knowing about the meeting, I asked my boss to let me what he finds. Otherwise, I would have obsessed about it all weekend. So he called me yesterday afternoon. The program is being cut. My boss told me he is trying very hard not to take it personally. This program is his baby...He conceived it, designed it and ran it for 7 of the 10 years it has been in operation.
So now I'm not obsessing about what is going to happen with the program. I'm obsessing about what is going to happen to the kids we serve. I'm afraid those boys are going to fall through the cracks. Many of them only remain in treatment because of their involvement in that program in being in treatment is one of the conditions of living there. Without that safety net, they will make the wrong decision, refuse treatment and end up homeless or in prison (where a few of them actually came from to begin with).
And honestly, I'm also worried about my future. My boss could not give me an answer about where they are going assign me once the program closes. I understand that. His meeting was with the CEO, fiscal department, board members and other administrators. Staffing issues is a departmental issue. My problem is the woman in charge of the mobile psych rehab department really does not like me. The last time I talked to her, she was all nice and sweet to my face and then went to my supervisor and complained about everything that I had said. She's going to try to find a excuse to get rid of me.
I told my boss that I've been there nearly 5 years. I'm good at my job. I've had a lot of client who have said that they like me, that I've helped them a lot. In the time I've been with the agency, there have been many people hired to psych rehab positions. There have even been peer specialists hired to psych rehab positions. If closing the Youth Lodge now means that they now have too many employees, I should not be one to go, the last person to have been hired should go. I told my boss I would fight for my job and get an attorney if I have to. I've been a good employee, loyal employee. In nearly 5 years I've had only 1 write up, I've worked holidays, weekends, overnights, whenever needed. I've been on call without on call pay. I've been called into work at 2 am and on Christmas. I've been cussed at, hit, propositioned and had my car vandalized. I've been drugged, had money stolen and personal belongings destroyed. And its only been in the last 6 months that I've grown tired and frustrated about it. Its also been in the last 6 months that I've had a recent mental health relapse, which has a lot to do with my response to things at work.
The top boss, of course doesn't know any of this. She's been on the job less than a year and has had only a few encounters with me. But I think she took an instant dislike to me the very first time we met. My supervisor agrees that I should fight for my job and I believe he will be in my corner. He loves me. He understands me. He also hates the program director with a passion. After all she wrote him up because I turned to her to a second opinion after getting one from him. She claimed a lack of supervision on his part.
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