So my soon to be former job in the caregiving industry has managed to alienate and disillusion me so badly from caregiving that I want nothing further to do with the field and once my notice is finished on May 8th, I will never work in caregiving again due to the mistreatment and horrible management of our clients and employees…
Examples in the last year and a half of why I flipped out this week and gave my notice in bereavement card form…
– Staff making constant false allegations against people they don't like just to get them fired.
– Being forced to work 24 plus hour shifts (which is illegal as hell, even in Tennessee).
– Purposely pushing back a client's COVID test so they would test negative so they didn't have to quarantine a house. (Saw this first hand and if the company denies it, they're full of crap)
– Ignoring an employee's multiple requests for PTO for mental health issues when the company KNEW they had mental health issues, triggering a mini-psychotic episode on the way out due to their negligence.
– Employees showing up 2 to 7 plus hours late and no disciplinary action yet we get written up if we aren't able to fill out a note for a shift at work due to technical issues on the program THEY installed.
– Micromanaging needlessly past the point of excessiveness in issues that didn't matter yet not enforcing what does matter.
– Being paid less than many fast food employees when we have actual lives in our hands.
– Condescending bosses who instead of trying to fix issues choose to double down that nothing is wrong and try to write YOU up for legitimate issues with the company.
– Management on down phoning it in professionally when COVID hit during a time we should have been more united than ever.
– Management knowing about bedbugs in a house I work out and deliberately sitting on their asses doing nothing to fix the problem.
There's a lot more examples I could list but these were the most egregious considering the field I am on the way out of. I loved caring for our clients but when management makes it clear by their actions they don't give a damn about them or staff, I want no further part of that culture.
Long story, if you're in caregiving… GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN!