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erieangel -> Forced to take vacation (6/12/2013 1:57:02 PM)
The Youth Lodge has been closed. All of the clients have been resettled into new lodgings, some into their own apartments, others into Fairweather Lodge. Those who moved into their own apartments were transferred from my case load to new mobile psych rehab workers last week; the others were reassigned as of today. I now have a total of 2 psych rehab clients who have not yet been reassigned. I am waiting for my clearances to come back so that I can start in a new department as a peer specialist with the same agency. Because of my lack of a caseload, I am being forced to burn vacation time until I can start the new position. This stinks because the MPR director knew she was going to transfer me to a different department a month before the Youth Lodge actually closed but she did nothing about having me start getting my clearances. In fact, when I asked her about them several weeks ago, she told me "HR is taking care of everything. You don't have to worry a thing." I should have known better. I needed to get my fingerprints for the FBI clearance. And the PA child abuse clearance is requires information HR wouldn't have had access to. And HR never got in touch with me until last week--in the middle of the move of 18 people. So now I'm stuck burning all my vacation time and double holidays because I simply have no work to do. In fact, this week, I think I'll log a total of 20 hours, if I'm lucky. And I'm taking all of next week, too. Spur of the moment. I'll have nothing to do. And nothing to do at home and no place to go because I didn't plan for a vacation at this time. This really sucks. I'm trying to stay positive. At least I still have a job. But I'm depressed right now.

Rule -> RE: Forced to take vacation (6/12/2013 2:36:05 PM)
Maybe you can be a dogwalker and switch to doing dog psychology like the dog whisperer?

erieangel -> RE: Forced to take vacation (6/12/2013 4:17:20 PM)
That would be fun if I didn't have mobility problems. I don't get around well when there is snow and ice on the ground. I do love dogs though. I love to walk, too.

DarkSteven -> RE: Forced to take vacation (6/12/2013 5:56:30 PM)
The writing's on the wall. Look for another job like yesterday.

littlewonder -> RE: Forced to take vacation (6/12/2013 7:27:46 PM)
Agreed. Start looking for a new job. I have a feeling you have basically been "laid off" and that other job may not really be there waiting for you.

TheLilSquaw -> RE: Forced to take vacation (6/12/2013 7:34:34 PM)
Hope for the best prepare for the worst. I'd personally talk to HR find out exactly what's going on. Have positive energy, hope for the best but be prepared for the fact you might need to start looking for a new job.

LafayetteLady -> RE: Forced to take vacation (6/12/2013 7:38:27 PM)
Is it possible to ask them if you can take the time off unpaid and keep your vacation time? You might also want to check with the department of labor laws for PA about whether they can do that when the time off is not your fault. If they were letting you go they would have to pay you for your unused vacation time, and it is possible that they might simply be telling you to use it up rather than pay it to you. I realize that seems to make no sense, but it is still possible. You keep saying how this supervisor doesn't like you, so she may be getting some satisfaction in knowing that you are waiting by the phone to go back to work. Time you could AND SHOULD be using to look for another job. We told you months ago to start putting out feelers for another position somewhere. Now you have the time off to do so.

erieangel -> RE: Forced to take vacation (6/12/2013 8:20:53 PM)
Yeah. When word came down that the Youth Lodge was closing, I started looking for another job. The best I could do was a part time position at the Mental Health Association. I need something full time. I really don't want to relocate, either, because I'd rather stay near the kids and the grand baby and I finally own my home with no mortgage. I got my fingerprints done last Friday. And I dropped the paperwork off for at state representative's office (if comes back faster that way) for the PA child abuse clearance on Monday. So the other job is going to be there, in fact I've talked to the peer specialist supervisor late this afternoon. She's excited to have me coming into the program (I've known her for about 20 years, ever since I was a client of the agency). The CEO is glad I'm staying as well--he knew I was looking. I do need to readjust my internal clock because I'll be going from an odd second shift of 1pm to 9pm to a straight first shift of 8:30 to 4:40. So I'll have to get up by 6 am in order to make to work each morning. I live only 10 minutes from where the Youth Lodge was located. Now I'll have to drive across town to the main office, then spend much of the day on the road traveling from client to client. So, as I think about it, a short vacation, would be nice, but it could take weeks to get the clearances back. I have nearly 200 hours of vacation time, plus most holidays are doubled. But we haven't had very many holidays yet this year and I've actually taken those days off, so those holidays are down to a single day available. I really don't want to start to from scratch again. It took me 5 years to build that time, taking a few days off here and there, sometimes a few hours here and there. Tomorrow I am going to talk with the peer specialist supervisor again, in person. I have to go to the main office anyway. She mentioned today that I might be able to shadow other peer specialists while waiting for my clearances. That way, I won't have to burn all my vacation time and I'll still get paid. I won't be doing any actual work, which is all right because I have to change my thinking any way. I'm used to doing the work of a mobile psych rehab worker. A peer specialist is totally different. Shadowing the peer specialists may help me to unlearn my previous job.

Lucylastic -> RE: Forced to take vacation (6/13/2013 9:22:47 AM)
Good Luck Erie, I hope you enjoy your new path!!!

erieangel -> RE: Forced to take vacation (6/13/2013 4:12:18 PM)
Thanks!! I got the fob today that lets me access the entire main building. I've worked for the agency nearly 5 years and have just received a fob. I feel special [:)] In other news: While at the main agency, I was waylaid by one of administrators who was concerned about an email I had sent yesterday. The supervisor at Fairweather Lodge wanted me to send an email correction about a progress note I had written. Because I temporarily did not have access to my email account, she had me send it through her email. It caused quite a stir because that was a violation of policy and procedures--we aren't supposed to use other people's email accounts. And this was a supervisor having me do it. But after I explained to the administrator that the supervisor had logged me onto her computer and stayed in the office while I composed the email and why I was using her email, all was good. It helped that he happened to have found me in the IT department while having a VPN installed on my netbook so that I can access email on that until I get a desk at the office. So after a week, I finally access my work email and what do I find...an announcement that there is an opening for a psych rehab worker!! But it seems somebody resigned last week, 2 weeks after I accepted the job as a peer specialist. I decided to take the move anyway. The peer specialist supervisor and I get along while I don't trust the psych rehab supervisor and don't think she likes me or trusts my ability. In fact, I called her about the psych rehab position and she said that my position at the Youth Lodge wasn't really a psych rehab job. Say what??? Most psych rehab workers specialize in 1 or 2 of 5 domains. I had to learn to be proficient in all of them--even the ones in which I am not personally comfortable in. Plus I had to take care of the house business. Not really a psych rehab job?? It was much more than a psych rehab job.

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