My medical lab has an aggressive turnover rate. A job as a lab tech requires an Associate's degree, offers overpriced and piss poor health insurance, and pays $17 an hour. Accordingly, we don't get the smartest, hardest working, most attentive people. I can't blame them – I'm exploring my options, too.
Because the job is something of a dead end, my boss's boss's boss put in her two weeks and there is no one available to replace her. The solution? Every supervisor is now responsible for two work areas instead of just one. They must now share responsibility with another supervisor, which means no one has total decision making authority. They have twice as many people to be responsible for and they don't get a raise or more work hours. To top it all off, they have no extra time to be cross trained because the decision is effective immediately.
My medical lab pulled in over $1 billion in revenue last year and the CEO of our “not for profit” hospital earned nearly $2 million.
If any of them have any options in life they will be looking for a ticket out. Don't get sick or hurt, America, because you might be fucked.