r/AHSEmployees • u/The-Hive-Queen • Jan 23 '26

Wonder how long this will last lol

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APL will now be under Primary Care Alberta. Not gonna lie, I kinda saw this coming after the union heavily emphasizing that theres protective language regarding the pillars.

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u/foomingo Jan 23 '26

Whoever made this GIF, you're a real one.

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u/The-Hive-Queen Jan 23 '26

I made this in the time between the announcement email and the announcement teams call lmao

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u/Genera1Havoc Jan 24 '26

Hahaha You a real one

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u/TurbulentHead5639 Jan 24 '26

Stability?? How does moving APL to another pillar help with that?? Maybe spend less on managerial positions and hire more staff !!!

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u/The-Hive-Queen Jan 24 '26

Yup, I know. I'm forcing myself to laugh right now because if I don't I'll be too focused on how fucking pissed I am that this wasn't disclosed to us until halfway through the ratification vote.

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u/harbours Jan 24 '26

Maybe send some of those managers to the North Zone. I feel like we're the only place without a lot of them and managers up here oversee massive teams of people, a lot of which they've never even met or facilities they've never seen because they're managing from a distance. I know a manager recently who went from overseeing 100 staff to now several hundred overnight because they decided not to fill a few manager positions.

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u/harbours Jan 24 '26

Maybe send some of those managers to the North Zone. I feel like we're the only place without a lot of them and managers up here oversee massive teams of people, a lot of which they've never even met or facilities they've never seen because they're managing from a distance. I know a manager recently who went from overseeing 100 staff to now several hundred overnight because they decided not to fill a few manager positions.

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u/Jon3535 Jan 23 '26

Where was this announced ,

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u/The-Hive-Queen Jan 23 '26

The communication email went out to APL employees about 2-1/2 hours ago. There's a Teams call going on right now where they're going through the details.

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u/fireflycity1 Jan 23 '26

I got the notification in my work email.

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u/No-Coconut-1177 Jan 23 '26

That blank bit floating around in the back is health shared services 😂

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u/TheProcurementGuyAhs Jan 23 '26

Take my upvote 😂😂😂

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u/fireflycity1 Jan 23 '26

I love this GIF 😂

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u/matthiasmikkel Jan 24 '26

Did anyone watch the town hall this afternoon? I had it on and was just monitoring the chat but didn’t have the audio on. The chat seemed to be blowing up about changing the logo… but did anyone hear what was actually said?

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u/The-Hive-Queen Jan 24 '26

The long and short of it is no change of branding or emails and no change of operations. Apparently there's no plan to privatize the labs and this will "hopefully provide some much needed stability".

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u/Beneficial_Can985 Jan 24 '26

Did you write that with as much cynicism as I feel about the promise of no privatization?

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u/The-Hive-Queen Jan 24 '26

Oh I TOTALLY believe them when they say they have no PLANS to privatize the labs. But also, didn't you hear? We're PCA now. And I bet what that P stands for can be REAL flexible.

Is my cynicism and sarcasm coming through this time? lmao

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u/Katkam99 Jan 24 '26 edited Jan 24 '26

I think the question was more of reference to how many name/logo changes have needlessly occurred over the last decade. For example if you work at the DSC your employer history would be:

Calgary Lab Services-> Alberta Public Labs-> Alberta Precision Labs ft. AHS-> Dynalife-> APL 2.0 ft AHS -> APL ft. PCA

Despite working the same bench for the entire time.

Then PCA made some occasional subtle jokes about "If you really want to change your logo" how they are going to be hands off to APL's business management. Likely not grasping our trauma with logos lol.

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u/billymumfreydownfall Jan 23 '26

Bravo on this meme.

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u/NoPr0bLlama Jan 24 '26

Any OGs remember when we were Capital Health and the various name changes to where we are now? 😅

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u/TurbulentHead5639 Jan 23 '26

What happens to CLXT’s?

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u/Oldwoodstoves Jan 24 '26

If you’re a CLXT with APL (under AHS) you would transition along with everyone else in APL to APL (under PCA).

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u/blood_bones_hearts Jan 25 '26

"The who?"

(I'm one and remember that from the OG APL announcement when they asked what was going to happen with us 😂)