Hospital Worker Fired

Tomasito, 2008

Redding Hospital Worker Fired!

One of the big hospitals in Redding CA , where I currently live, has fallen on very hard times in these days of hard times.

But they have been taken over by another “hospital saving group” from out of town that goes around saving sick hospitals—and makes them profitable (just temporarily--for the new management only) if not well, again

I read in the local newspaper that this new administration will close the unprofitable parts of the hospital—but will resuscitate the highly profitable Emergency Services.

The Hospital Savers Group (headed by doctors, of course) fired most of the sick hospital's existing employees and many of them were quite surprised.

One surprised staffer was a nurse who had worked in the Emergency department for eighteen years. She was one of the first to get the ax.

Now nurses, like other old-fashioned workers, used to get periodic pay raises—to keep the best trained, etc., staffers on the job. The employer—the hospital in this case—showed it's employees that it cherished their long service by rewarding their dedication with MONEY!

But, of course, if there is a NEW EMPLOYER—like our Out of Town Hospital Saving Group—it doesn't owe those high paid long-time staffers the time of day. It is AX time for THEM!! And put the money in the pocket of the NEW administrators until the hospital finally REALLY dies and who cares about THAT anyway—they don't live here!

I think this is a little part of the reason that Mr Greenspan—the longtime money man of the U.S. government--said he had a wrong notion about what business is all about when the economy crashed because “there was no adult supervision”.

American business used to be about people working together to earn a living—and now it about administrators working to make themselves as rich as possible as fast as possible and then get away with the loot—and let the workers find other work—if they can.

I worked for Montgomery Ward when it crashed and I was working for Mervyns when it was bought by Hostile Takeover Inc. which has driven it into the ground.

Looks to me like it is a good time for Greed in High Places and a bad time to be a worker.

Tomasito, 2008

...