So here I am, sold my soul to the University rip-off: Undergrad from Ivy League, MBA, RN (just finished out my nursing degree, long story), doing my thing. The Owner of our company, let’s call him Dr. J , is at a company dinner and we get to talking.
I work in Clinical Research so it’s in my wheelhouse but it’s a grind. Constantly traveling, pay isn’t great, no benefits.
Well, Dr. J starts out lamenting that the company is loosing money. I make some pretty rudimentary suggestions: market analysis, cost vs. ROI, and market share. We talk shop on different diseases we were currently doing research on, new FDA regulations, little hospital humor, whatever. At this point I’ve been working in hospitals for 3 years so I know how to talk to MDs. Well, Dr. J asks me what position I was in and was flabbergasted that I was “In the Grunt Pool” and offers me a job in the Research and Development department on the spot. His department.
I was ecstatic! He’s the owner right? Dr. J followed up and was told I was going to be contacted by HR, they would post a job position for so many weeks yadda yadda. But the job was mine. Even brought me in to some high level meetings and gave me a project to “tide me over”.
Wweeeelll HR called today to discuss Dr. Js “informal offer” and how “sorry” they were that they didn’t actually have a position for me. And that I am to resume my duties in the grunt pool.
I’m being shipped out to the west coast next week for god knows how long.
How can they do this?? Do they not know how utterly demoralizing this is? I hate work.