I have a full time job but some coworkers suggested I could apply to a department with a manager who seems to be a complete sociopath and seems to always need personnel.

In said department, there was a nurse that worked part time to finance her bachelor to be a physician assistant with the promise to be hired afterwards. She was sometimes very talkative and a gossip but otherwise a good nurse. Barely a week before the contract was to be signed, after she got her degree, she was told they found a better candidate with more experience so they wouldn’t hire her.

Obviously, she used all her sick days and then quit. Why would anyone work for a manager like this?

Chilling and very sad that people are sometimes like this. She was used.

Would you work for a manager like this? Because some coworkers would like me to apply to work for this guy,because they’re always shorthanded. I’m not asking because I need this job, but because it’s always good to know what other options you have before looking elsewhere.

Believe people when they show you who they are would apply here.

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Maybe. It depends if you have an exit strategy.

    I once was a customer advocate for a big hosting company. Most of my supervisors were fine but one kept telling the employees to find ways to reduce claims, even if the customer was right and we didn’t respect our SLAs. I pushed the issue a bit but he ended up replying with the French expression “tu ne vivras pas d’amour et d’eau fraîche” (you will not subsist on love and water), meaning that I needed money, a job, and that I should do what he’s telling me to do.

    So I went on my lunch break, composed a resignation letter and sent it. When I came back from lunch, that supervisor was incredulous. “You’re not serious, are you?” It was indeed not a good financial decision for me, but I simply went back to my previous employer, whom I left in good terms.

    Now it’s a decadeater, I have another job with a big company that’s trying to force everyone back to the office, even if your doing desk work. I don’t have to deal with this, am overqualified, and my supervisors know that I will probably find something else before being forced into useless commuting.

    All this to say, I’d avoid it if possible, but if they are really that short handed, and I keep in mind that this may/will not last, I might also try for a while. It really depends on how much trouble all this would be personally for me.