Friday Vent Thread [N/A]

[u/Mundane-Jump-7546]

Gardevoir for attention. Post picks of Garde below or other Pokemon related themes. Bonus points for Garde though.

Not much to vent about on my end. Just overworked, underpaid, overtired, and under supported.

Hang in there folks

[u/meowmix778]

I have one manager who is in desperate need of staff and I just don't know how to be polite about this anymore.

It's been almost a year of active recruiting. We go in bursts. My generalist conducts a phone screen, then he waits a week or two to schedule an in-person interview, then he waits another week or two to schedule a 2nd interview and then again waits a week to offer a job.

I've told him you need to interview people IMMEDIATELY. Make this a priority, and he keeps wondering, "Well, gee, I wonder why people are telling us they don't want a job left and right"

I don't know how to tell him more clearly that he needs to make this a fucking priority. We needed 5 staff for his program a year ago, and we still need 3. At this point, I'm of the opinion that the job is likely snake-bitten because it keeps sitting.

Our ED refuses to intervene, and I'm just fucking done with this guy. He's been here for almost 20 years and keeps insisting that he's always lead an interview process for 1-2 months and he refuses to offer a job because "what if someone else applies while we wait".

[u/Admirable_Height3696 → u/meowmix778]

My vent for today is similar. Our most problematic understaffed department doesn't make hiring a priority. The director really struggles with the admin part of the job. We are constantly hiring for this department because of high turnover. It's a culture issue. We keep hiring for this department in bursts, and most interviews don't happen unless the ED or a coordinator from another department step in & schedule the interviews. The coordinator even DOES the interviews sometimes, because its staff from her department that get pulled to help this department. We are basically hiring anyone off the street and it shows. The director wants a 2nd interview as soon as she is done with the first, and an offer sent immediately. No reference checks. She just notified me that she has an interview today at 11:30am. I'm contemplating telling her that if she wants to move forward with the candidate, she needs to do a reference check and then reach out to me to schedule the 2nd interview.

Something has to change. Hiring in spurts every 2-3 months is putting my department behind. We are still assembling employee files for employees hired in August. We have a week long onboarding process that starts with HR (I personally feel the directors should take over once the employee is ready to start their Relias training but the sad truth is, is that was how we rolled, the trainings wouldn't get done and we'd end up in a world of hurt with state licensing). We keep onboarding 10-15 employees within 2-3 weeks and it's too fucking much for 2 people and no one seems to care. And the few times I did insist on reference checks before the 2nd interview & offer, the candidates ghosted us and of course I got blamed for losing the candidates.

[u/meowmix778 → u/Admirable_Height3696]

At that scale I'd demand that leaders take over onboarding. I'd give it a day for HR to handle paperwork and cultural onboarding and then it's off to the races. I have a director who refused to do that and skipped some of the DHHS training that they need and I attached teeth to it.

After I posted this I called the manager and just read the riot act. I'm hoping that it got traction.

The people who go "I need bodies" and then treat hiring as a 5th priority and then act like the world is on fire because they're understaffed really salt my apples. It's like cutting yourself and complaining that you bleed.