WHAT?!?!?!

Wow, I love when you get information that would make a huge difference in the way you approach things, especially after you've been working really hard to make something happen and then you get blindsided with the information! I found out today that I am ineligible for rehire at one of the hospitals here in town. I have been applying for jobs and talking to different people and sending my resume and such an NO ONE told me that I was ineligible, not even the people in the human resources. SERIOUSLY?!?!? Um, that would have been extremely helpful to know, I could have started the appeals process much sooner but no, I had no idea. Thank goodness that the nurse recruiter called me today and told me. She also told me what to do to appeal that status. I have talked to the human resources department multiple times in the last several months and they failed to tell me this little nugget of information. It would suck to tell someone that, I understand that but why give someone a false sense of hope??? Why not just tell them? I am going to take my letter of appeal to the hospital tomorrow. I hope that I will be able to speak to the director of human resources so that I can get this situation straightened out.

The worst part of this is that I got fired for doing the right thing...I won't go into details but suffice it to say that a supervisor was having a relationship with another employee and it caused a huge amount of chaos. I tried to go to the director multiple times but was told to go to that supervisor. I told the director repeatedly that this supervisor was part of the problem but he refused to listen. The employee left her email open and a friend of mine printed them out so I took them to human resources as a last resort. Then I got in major trouble in my department for not using the chain of command, which I had, and then I subsequently got fired for a supposed "infraction". I should have checked the validity of this infraction because I'm sure that it was untrue. I did what I was supposed to and documented it but that didn't make any difference in the end...mainly because the people that I worked for wanted me gone because I had exposed their supervisor for his wrongdoing. No good deed goes unpunished I guess...but I'll get it all straightened out and then get a job.