The world we live in. So I have a friend who has been working at a hospital in the operations dept. he has been with them for seven years now. He is what you could call “third in charge”. When Covid hit, both of the people who were his superior left. The hospital asked him to take over as interim head of the department. He agreed and during this time he lead the department into becoming a well oiled machine. People enjoyed working for him and he was continually lauded for doing an amazing job. Better than those before him.
He stuck with the job through Covid, at a hospital which as you can imagine was hell. Well the other day he was told that they wanted to give him the position on a permanent basis. Remove the interim title, raise his pay etc.
However, it’s company policy that department heads have at least a bachelor’s degree. He doesn’t. So in order to have the job he’s been doing and doing well in an extremely tough time he needs a bachelors degree.
They have said they will give him the job officially when he gets the degree. Until then he stays interim. Here’s the kicker. The degree technically doesn’t need to be in his field or related to the medical industry. Absolutely pathetic. Are they offering him a reduced schedule or financial aid for the now required schooling? Nope.