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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 10:57 PM Original message |
My 51 year old sister has lost her job of 23 years. The Nursing Home sold out. NEw company elimina |
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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. additionally, just last year she won the Social Services employee for the year in nursing homes |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 10:28 AM Response to Reply #1 |
38. Can she write to the Gov and ask her for help? A state job, maybe? |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
2. ...that "personalization" can be assimilated... |
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Cant trust em (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:04 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Affirmative. Employee no. 34258 will assume the workload. |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 12:12 AM Response to Reply #2 |
21. They'll push it off on nurses and others that they are required to |
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DCKit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
3. That's not the economy, that's "The Corporation". |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:04 PM Response to Original message |
5. I feel so bad for your sister. I know how devastated I was when I |
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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:07 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. They live in a rinky dinky town with one small hospital and the one nursing home |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:15 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. How close is the nearest affluent area? I dont mean Rich, but |
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Jane Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:21 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. My mother had private caregivers for nine years in her own home. |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 10:27 AM Response to Reply #7 |
37. g-ddammit greenbriar! the hits just keep on coming. |
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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 11:57 AM Response to Reply #37 |
39. My other sister does in home health care and maybe my 51 year old can do that too |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 12:10 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. I know. Have a friend & one relative who do it. It's a growth industry. |
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Clark2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 03:54 PM Response to Reply #7 |
47. Are there any at-home nursing services? |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
6. Companies don't want employees with any length of time |
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greyghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 12:11 AM Response to Reply #6 |
20. Exactly, the hotel industry is famous for this maneuver. Older... |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 01:05 AM Response to Reply #20 |
27. The USPS is doing this. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
8. Who bought them (only if you want to share) if you know? |
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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. I don't know the name of the company |
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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 01:56 PM Response to Reply #10 |
43. Is it called Manor Care? |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:11 PM Response to Original message |
9. Your sister would have a perpetual job in Florida. |
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jillan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
12. What's so sad is that they people she helped needed her as much as she needed her job. |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
13. They most certainly will not assimilate that position |
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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:30 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. It was Medicalodges but I don't know the name of the new company |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 12:16 AM Response to Reply #15 |
22. Some for profit company |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
16. I work at a nursing home |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
17. You sister is NEEDED!!! |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-25-08 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
18. She should talk to a discrimination lawyer who does age discrimination cases. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
19. Our nursing home is bad like that |
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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 12:36 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. she is limited as she lives in a rinky dinky town |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 01:10 AM Response to Reply #23 |
30. I saw that after I posted |
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Lithos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 12:43 AM Response to Original message |
24. I'm sorry, that has nothing to do with the economy |
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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 12:52 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. my other sister has worked there 31 years she is currently the bookeeper |
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Lithos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 01:07 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. I would be too |
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1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 01:04 AM Response to Original message |
26. not always bad. how about where your sister always wanted to live? |
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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 01:14 AM Response to Reply #26 |
31. Oh if it were that positive. but not reality |
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1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 02:02 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. oh. ok. my bad. nevermind... n/t. |
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w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
29. as a nurse,let me say... |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 02:31 AM Response to Original message |
33. I'm sorry. |
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eilen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 05:48 AM Response to Original message |
34. Maybe she can |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 06:06 AM Response to Original message |
35. And it takes a very special person to take care of our elderly and disabled |
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seafan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
36. Would that be a nursing home taken over by The Carlyle Group? |
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Joanne98 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 02:06 PM Response to Reply #36 |
44. That's what I was thinking. But google doesn't show the sale... |
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YvonneCa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
41. She needs ... |
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greenbriar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 03:44 PM Response to Reply #41 |
45. you make good points that I hadn't even thought of |
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YvonneCa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 03:53 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Yes... |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-26-08 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
42. With 23 years of senority her salary was probably very high. It is sad |
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