[NPInfo] i just got fired!

[Carla Anderson]

I was just thinking of something else, I agree to come over after church what a loser.. sorry, makes me mad and I want to say something stronger.  But if you were only working a half day a week, she was hardly paying you at all, and so therefore it sounds like she is firing you for being "disabled" not for "not being able to afford you" .. I think you may have a case against her.  She would have to "prove in court" that she could not afford to pay you 1/2 a day a week.  She would never be able to prove that, so she will have to give you a settlement. I had a friend of mine who was a PA, and she interviewed with 5 doctors before deciding to open a practice together with the one doctor. Then after about a year and a half, without notice, he started shorting her pay check. Then he put her desk in the hall, and took her phone away... He told her that she was not earning her keep so he did not have to pay her as much anymore.. He tried to get her to quit by making life
 miserable. She took him to court and WON!  He had to pay back payments of unemployment, plus everything that he left out of her normal pay..  So if you think it is worth a shot, go for it, what she did was really a cheap shot!  Carla/Oregon

Jeffrey Hazzard <jeffnp27 at yahoo.com> wrote:  For starters you can give us all her name and phone number so we can give her a piece of our minds. Let's just deal in actuality: The doc you worked for is a P.O.S.

There might be some recourse. But it would be murky and you might not end up with anything. Fortunate for you (us), our jobs seriously outnumber us NPs. 

I'm most happy that you have the wherewithall and capacity to be indignant and advocate for yourself after all you've been through.

As for your ear, it shouldn't be a problem. That's part of the reason nature gave you two!

Lynda, what I wrote you was not idle chatter. WE ARE ALL BEHIND YOU. 
Jeff Hazzard, St. Petersburg (today)

Lynda Woiblett wrote:
Well, My boss, the doc who owns the practice, stopped by my house after church this morning to tell me that she had thought it over very carefully and that she could not afford me any longer. (Guess that 60,000/yr was just so much more than I was worth). 
I understand that not being there for the past 5 weeks has made it bad for her, but I took no salary for the time that I have been off on sick leave. She gave me no notice or severance package. She said she would not cancel my health ins. until the end of the month. She said that she decided to tell me this way so my husband could be there for support. (I almost actually said out loud "How thoughtful of you". But I did not. I just got home from packing up my office. I also know that having to take time off for more dr appts than I ever thought I would have is hard on the practice. I had started back 1/2 days on Thursday, and there is no way I can do a full day yet. 
I am still too upset to start polishing the CV and looking for another job, but is there some recourse that I might have? I had no contract and that is one lesson hard learned today...although I did have one at my last job and there was so many ways to get out of it that it was pretty worthless.
And how much disclosure do I have to give my next employer re: my hearing loss? I am afraid that I will not be able to get another job when someone finds out I have a total hearing loss in one ear.
Sorry to cry on everyone's shoulders but I am in a spot that I have never experienced before and have no guidance.....and I am doubly scared because we just bought another house and have not yet sold ours so I am going nuts thinking about double mortgage payments!
Thanks in advance for any advice you can share..
Lynn W
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Carla R. Anderson, FNP-C
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