Catscankim
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So my supervisor decided to retire early. She was supposed to hang her hat in January, but spoke with her financial advisor and he said it was ok to do it now...effective July 1st.
We have become friends and talk almost every day after work, to complain about work LOL. It usually starts with a text from one of us to the other "so get this..." Then we go back and forth a few times until one of us gets tired of texting and finally just calls the other.
Now that she is retiring (EARLY), I am transitioning to supervisor. Don't congratulate me yet. As it is getting closer, I am starting to realize what a total disaster this is going to be. My director is thrilled to have the position filled right away to make it "seamless", but that also means we are losing a tech, so that is going to stress out a department that was short staffed to begin with. Also, one of our coworkers is going on FMLA for baby leave...so there's two.
We have one traveler tech, that finally said yes to renewing her contract. We have a traveler coming next week that needs training. So this is going to relieve some of it, but they came with weird set hours that really does not fit with our schedule, without moving our full timers around, which makes them mad.
We have two "borrowed" techs from a sister hospital (its corporate), that are being called back home...effective July 1st. Going to be short now 4 techs. I don't know what to do about scheduling. It is a medium-sized hospital (about 400 beds). Level 1 trauma and comprehensive stroke hospital.
The other day I texted a guy asking if he doesn't mind if I schedule him for some overtime on July 8th. He responded "I already scheduled my vacation that week". WHAT??? Are you kidding me? The way it worked with scheduling time off is that my supervisor had a calendar hung up in her office and people just wrote their names on the calendar or texted her their request. I can't work that way. I have been a supervisor before. So when she announced her retirement, and when I knew that I was going to take her place, I hung up a "time off request form"...that the REST of the radiology department uses, and told everybody that they needed to fill it out to get time off confirmed. It also has a spot the approve or not approve. THAT is the way it is supposed to work.
I had work tonight and I got a security guard to open her office where the calendar is located, and this person put his name for one week off for every month over the summer, two weeks for August. I took the calendar down. I already made it clear that that was not how it was going to work anymore. I already have my own system and I told them that. Using the form is not something I made up...this is our departments official form and my boss never enforced it. Now I have to deal with somebody already putting all kinds of time off on the calendar. UGH.
The thing is, I'm not officially supervisor until July 3rd (the start of the new pay period after she leaves). It was a sneaky thing for him to do...just drew lines all over the place for weeks off at a time. And he's the one who complains that he never gets to take time off, but when you look at this calendar, he is the ONLY one who gets it. You know how many times my name is on this calendar? TWO. And they weren't whole weeks at a time because I know the staffing situation. I would just simply tell her to schedule me a few days to decompress (after working sometimes 13 days straight). He doesn't work crazy hours like that. He is our "grumpy old man"...been there for 30 years, but not quite ready to retire.
Only being 6 months into the year, he has already had two/two week times off. One for his surgery, and one because his wife had knee surgery. When he came back from the wife's surgery, he was back for 3 days and was back out for his already scheduled time off.
I'm gonna ask tomorrow, but I don't know if I am allowed to say no at this point, when that's the way my supervisor did it all the time. This shouldn't be approved vacation time, especially since I already said that we need to use forms. BUT I'm not supervisor yet... Right now I am interim/in training for the last two weeks. But then again, we also always followed the unspoken rule that everybody gets to pick a week during the summer according to seniority, THEN you get to go back and pick for more time after everybody has gotten their week. When I asked my supervisor what I am supposed to do about this, she tells me it's my call because it is after she leaves.
I might need to invoke my director to say that no time off until staffing improves. I hate to do that, especially in the summer. And I don't want to make my mark on my first day. AND we are a pretty stressed out department already. I have stared at the schedule a hundred times trying to figure out how to give it to him and I am drawing a blank. I have tried working in 10-hour shifts, 12-hour shifts (we do 8's). We simply do not have the staff to cover his shift no matter what creative scheduling I come up with.
We have become friends and talk almost every day after work, to complain about work LOL. It usually starts with a text from one of us to the other "so get this..." Then we go back and forth a few times until one of us gets tired of texting and finally just calls the other.
Now that she is retiring (EARLY), I am transitioning to supervisor. Don't congratulate me yet. As it is getting closer, I am starting to realize what a total disaster this is going to be. My director is thrilled to have the position filled right away to make it "seamless", but that also means we are losing a tech, so that is going to stress out a department that was short staffed to begin with. Also, one of our coworkers is going on FMLA for baby leave...so there's two.
We have one traveler tech, that finally said yes to renewing her contract. We have a traveler coming next week that needs training. So this is going to relieve some of it, but they came with weird set hours that really does not fit with our schedule, without moving our full timers around, which makes them mad.
We have two "borrowed" techs from a sister hospital (its corporate), that are being called back home...effective July 1st. Going to be short now 4 techs. I don't know what to do about scheduling. It is a medium-sized hospital (about 400 beds). Level 1 trauma and comprehensive stroke hospital.
The other day I texted a guy asking if he doesn't mind if I schedule him for some overtime on July 8th. He responded "I already scheduled my vacation that week". WHAT??? Are you kidding me? The way it worked with scheduling time off is that my supervisor had a calendar hung up in her office and people just wrote their names on the calendar or texted her their request. I can't work that way. I have been a supervisor before. So when she announced her retirement, and when I knew that I was going to take her place, I hung up a "time off request form"...that the REST of the radiology department uses, and told everybody that they needed to fill it out to get time off confirmed. It also has a spot the approve or not approve. THAT is the way it is supposed to work.
I had work tonight and I got a security guard to open her office where the calendar is located, and this person put his name for one week off for every month over the summer, two weeks for August. I took the calendar down. I already made it clear that that was not how it was going to work anymore. I already have my own system and I told them that. Using the form is not something I made up...this is our departments official form and my boss never enforced it. Now I have to deal with somebody already putting all kinds of time off on the calendar. UGH.
The thing is, I'm not officially supervisor until July 3rd (the start of the new pay period after she leaves). It was a sneaky thing for him to do...just drew lines all over the place for weeks off at a time. And he's the one who complains that he never gets to take time off, but when you look at this calendar, he is the ONLY one who gets it. You know how many times my name is on this calendar? TWO. And they weren't whole weeks at a time because I know the staffing situation. I would just simply tell her to schedule me a few days to decompress (after working sometimes 13 days straight). He doesn't work crazy hours like that. He is our "grumpy old man"...been there for 30 years, but not quite ready to retire.
Only being 6 months into the year, he has already had two/two week times off. One for his surgery, and one because his wife had knee surgery. When he came back from the wife's surgery, he was back for 3 days and was back out for his already scheduled time off.
I'm gonna ask tomorrow, but I don't know if I am allowed to say no at this point, when that's the way my supervisor did it all the time. This shouldn't be approved vacation time, especially since I already said that we need to use forms. BUT I'm not supervisor yet... Right now I am interim/in training for the last two weeks. But then again, we also always followed the unspoken rule that everybody gets to pick a week during the summer according to seniority, THEN you get to go back and pick for more time after everybody has gotten their week. When I asked my supervisor what I am supposed to do about this, she tells me it's my call because it is after she leaves.
I might need to invoke my director to say that no time off until staffing improves. I hate to do that, especially in the summer. And I don't want to make my mark on my first day. AND we are a pretty stressed out department already. I have stared at the schedule a hundred times trying to figure out how to give it to him and I am drawing a blank. I have tried working in 10-hour shifts, 12-hour shifts (we do 8's). We simply do not have the staff to cover his shift no matter what creative scheduling I come up with.
