Worst Birthday…UPDATE!

UPDATE!
So I was offered a new job today, working with my old nurse practitioner who had left the practice earlier this year. The job is not near what I was making, but better than I was hoping for! So yay!

And Stopped by my old practice…just a month and it’s already changed so much…everything I loved about it feels gone….like the new owners sucked the joy out of the practice and my old co-workers because they are, indeed, in it for the money rather than the patients…so very sad to see. But I guess in the end, it’s a good thing I was let go, because it hurt so much to see the change and I know I wouldn’t have been happy working there anymore.

So fingers crossed for me that the new job goes well and I figure out how to juggle the change in pay. 🙂

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Just wanted to complain I suppose. July 16th was my birthday. My whole office got called in for an after work meeting where we had the bomb dropped on us that we had been sold to another company. I world in a medical pain management office as an x-ray tech and have been there for 8 years. It was hard work, and sometimes frustrating, but it really was one of the best places and the best group of people and doctors I have ever worked with. They were like my family. Fast forward to yesterday. All of my co-workers from the docs to the managers to the front desk and nurses are angry and afraid. People are crying and worried. Many of us are the only provider in our households due to layoffs and other reasons…people are threatening to quit. The new company promised no one would lose their jobs, but the past weeks have been lies after lies after lies as they systematically categorized us and found many of dispensable because they are, apparently the sort of people to argue .44 cents on a five thousand dollar item. A relaxed and happy “family” that worked really darned hard to make our patients happy was betrayed, and destroyed when they laid a number of us off yesterday (some of us quit because they couldn’t stand the methods and attitude of our new “owners”). But since the sale isn’t done until next wens, we are forced to go back in and finish up the next three days or risk our measly 12 weeks of unemployment while we all try to find jobs in a field and city where there are none.

Needless to say, I was laid off. I’m devastated. This job was my home. I’m the only provider in my family, and my pets, my son, my husband…they depend on me. In three days I don’t even know what I’ll do. There are no jobs in my field out there right now. Even if I find anything, I’ll be starting at the bottom again. I thought I would retire from my practice…and now its gone..my job and the unique culture it provided. I won’t even have any insurance and the meds I take for my migraines are over $800 without it. I’m so scared and so worried and so tired of crying.

So I guess keep an eye out…I may be selling a lot of my collection in the next few months since feeding my family and paying my bills has to be more important…but…this all hurts so damned much.