I'm a nurse, and have been for about a year. I found a job with a detox company a short while after earning my license, and I've loved the work, in no small part due to my boss.
My boss, a nurse with 15 years of experience in the field and a level view of the world, has made working for this company a dream. When we need time off, we get it, she frequently offers bonuses for people that take overtime, and comes in herself to help with the grunt work when the goings get tough. With her help, I went from a baby nurse, to someone who can really hold their own in the field, as well as equipping me with the tools that I need to continue to better myself as a nurse in the future.
Then yesterday happened.
I was gearing up for my daily workout when the medical director of the company called me. She asked if I had checked my email yet, and when I replied in the negative, she told me that my awesome boss had been fired, effective immediately. The director really tried to play the emotional side, asking how I felt, offering to let me vent and stuff like that, even played the card that she had a background in therapy. I just told her that I was in shock, and needed time to process. After that, she asked two more things; if I could come in to cover the shift she had fired my boss off of, and I'd want her position and to become the new DON.
I just told her that I would think about it and hung up.
I ended up taking the extra shift, since I could use the extra money and I wanted to learn from my coworkers what had happened. After a little while, we agreed not to talk about it in the building, at the behest of one of my CMAs who knew what had happened, and so we went out to the bar after our shift and had a long talk.
Turns out, one of the executive managers, a racist dickbag, had been sexually harassing my boss for a while; following her to the gym and making inappropriate comments, sending her sexually charged text message like “I got that dick,” (gross) and “come over to my place.” She eventually stopped going to that gym to avoid him, and screenshotted all of the messages. She sent them to the medical director as a form of complaint and was repeatedly brushed off. Eventually, he carried the behavior into the workplace and she firmly rebuked him there, saying that she wanted nothing to do with him.
At this point, he started targeting here. Demanding time off requests if she was a minute late, having his assistant loudly talk outside of her office during phone calls as intimidation, and refusing her requests for supplies and time changes for her team. After reaching out to a friend in a different company's HR, she compiled all of her evidence, and turned it in to the medical director as an official grievance. The day after, yesterday regarding this post, she was fired without a stated reason, only being told that she and company were going separate ways.
With her being the awesome mentor that she is, I'm going to do all I can to keep in contact with her, and after getting to work today, I realized that I have zero desire to work here (was a bit too buzzed last night to realize how pissed I really was). I'll be looking for different employment, that's for damn sure, and I won't be doing anything extra to help out the company until that time comes.
It just sucks, because I really fucking loved this place and the people I worked with. Now, our group is splitting up because of blatant favoritism and bullshit.