Christmas Eve 2021, large hospital. My acting ward manager (a low empathy control freak who had somehow slid into the job without an interview and burrowed in like a tick) had rostered excess staff on.
We smashed the workload in half a shift then requested to sign off (using accrued leave). We'd been struggling through covid, we were beat.
Nope. She announced she'd deliberately rostered us on, on Christmas Eve, to “give us time to catch up on outstanding mandatory education modules”. The ones that she hadn't given us time to do during the year….
I was seething. Esp as all the senior staff had given themselves leave.
Next month I attended a general meeting with the exec as the employee rep.
Me, casually “so, when is that acting manager role going to be permanently filled?”
Exec “it hasn't been!? Well, we should probably look at a restructure while we're at it”
Several months later, unit management was restructured with employee input.
Her job disappeared. She applied for the new manager role….. unsuccessfully. Has had to leave the unit completely.
And she has no idea how that came about.