I started a job as a nurse manager of surgical services at a small hospital recently. It was my first leadership position and my director of surgical services seemed like she was going to be a great mentor to me. So color me surprised when shortly after starting, she announced that her last day was in three weeks. Well shit… The hospital had another director lined up, but she wouldn't be starting for another 6 weeks. So here I was, a new manager with no experience and only minimal training trying to keep a ship afloat in choppy waters while doing both my job and my director's. Administration (CNO, CFO, etc.) Promised up and down that I would have all the support I needed, but it was literally the 3rd day after the director left before I had the CFO chewing me out for over staffing. fast forward to the end of my 2nd week by myself and I've reached my limit. Staff morale, which was already low before I started was at a breaking point because they weren't getting their hours, I was on the CFO's shit list, and the CNO had barely said 10 words to me(So much for all that support I was supposed to receive). I wasn't sleeping well due to the stress and knew that I could not mentally or physically make it another month. My first goal was to do the whole “print out everybody's wages and leave them in the printer” revenge. But lo and behold only a director can access them. So on to plan B. Another reason for low morale amongst the staff was an unofficial policy of not approving time off until a few weeks before the requested time off. So the Monday of my third week I quietly went around to staff letting them know I would be looking at time off requests that Wednesday. Fast forward to Wednesday and I request a one on one meeting with the CNO. Surprise surprise she doesn't have time in her schedule to meet me. “Just 5 minutes!” I say. “Okay fine, I think I can fit you in around 11” At 10:55 every single member of my staff has every last time off request approved. Didn't matter if someone else had requested that date off earlier, if you wanted it, you got it. I then turned in my resignation to a surprised CNO, and grinned ear to ear as I walked out of that hospital for the last time knowing I had done what little I could to support my staff.
TL;DR Quit a job due to an unsupportive administration but approved all of my staff's time off requests before I left regardless if it overlapped with another staff member's time off.