Longtime lurker, first time poster… I submitted my resignation letter today.
I’m a nurse at a hospital. The area in which I work recently experienced a blizzard that left power outages. This blizzard was not a surprise, and was predicted to be big, with 2 feet of snow, high winds, and power outages expected. Of course the power did go out, but luckily the hospital has generators to run essential equipment.
Throughout my shifts during this blizzard, not one member of leadership/administration was present at the hospital. Not one member of leadership/administration called to see how we were hanging in there. We sent an email expressing how disheartening it felt to be left like that. They called us in for a meeting and made excuses and deflected. They said, “do you think one of us should live here all winter?” I said during a predicted impending natural disaster, yes, one of you should be in-house. I gave examples of others in management/leadership roles around the community who stepped up to help their workers, or at least were around to boost morale. I got cut off and got told, “we are not here to talk about those guys.”
So, I resigned. I think more will follow. I hope they do some reflecting and realize that they are the problem.