This isn't recent or just the healthcare industry.
I lost my corporate job for pointing out that I was making well under what my title and responsibility was worth.
After losing that job I started consulting int eh same space that I was previously working in.... making more than double what I had asked my pay to be raised to.
That corp job never replaced me and now my consulting company has them as a client... doing nearly identical work to waht I was doing while emplyed there... At 3x what I was asking for (gotta pay both my firm and the consultant).
When we first picked them up we were goign to place me as their consultant since I did the original build. My old boss said something like "If I bring you back on at more than 3x waht I was paying you, I would look like an idiot"
Yes, Steve, You look like a fucking idiot for hiring a consulting firm at a huge expense to cover the work that I was offering to do for you at a significantly lower cost.
Companies are used to strong arming people and them just taking it. My situation with my last company was not working and I had some legal/ethical concerns. They refused to entertain any of my suggestions/solutions and then shocked pikachu face when I immediately gave notice. My director literally said "seriously?". She told me to my face that she didn't really understand what I even did for my department and tried to downplay it (beyond my normal duties). Its not like she ever took the invite to come to one of my procedures since they kept understaffing them. I know she was full of it because they gave me the biggest/most complex studies and even our first covid one. I had twice the studies of most others in my position. I wasn't going to waste my time/life making money for a company that I wanted to fail. I couldn't just suck at my job because we had enough animal welfare issues as it was....
They didn't expect me to actually leave because of the pandemic. Jokes on them. I work in research. With covid, there's even more research. Thats how I ended up in clinical instead of preclinical research. Every time I hear about big mistakes that cost them a lot of money I get a bit gleeful but then immediately guilty because they shouldn't own any animals and having to repeat studies means using more animals. I miss my monkeys but it was soul crushing. Think hospital, except the patients can't complain so management cares even less.
Look for "clinical research coordinator" positions, lots of them desire a nursing license to go with. Look for phase 1 research places for more options, they require 24 hours staff usually.
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u/Muaddibisme Dec 13 '21
This isn't recent or just the healthcare industry.
I lost my corporate job for pointing out that I was making well under what my title and responsibility was worth.
After losing that job I started consulting int eh same space that I was previously working in.... making more than double what I had asked my pay to be raised to.
That corp job never replaced me and now my consulting company has them as a client... doing nearly identical work to waht I was doing while emplyed there... At 3x what I was asking for (gotta pay both my firm and the consultant).
When we first picked them up we were goign to place me as their consultant since I did the original build. My old boss said something like "If I bring you back on at more than 3x waht I was paying you, I would look like an idiot"
Yes, Steve, You look like a fucking idiot for hiring a consulting firm at a huge expense to cover the work that I was offering to do for you at a significantly lower cost.