idaho
03-23-2007, 02:24 PM
Ok I'm pissed. Not just a little pissed but A LOT PISSED. A couple of months ago my companny announced that our tuition reimbursement policy was being modified to pay 100% of tuition and fees at local universities. This was an improvement from the tuition only policy we used to have. I was happy because it saved me an additional $250/class.
Because of this I started taking my MBA classes at a different university. It is a better program, I'll be done in 18 months vs 5 years, but it's slightly more expensive.
Now all of a sudden they have changed the policy again. Now they are saying that since we have some positions in the company where we have a shortage of labor (nursing - we're a hospital system) that they are only going to pay the 100% reimbursement for them and not for non-shortage positions (i.e. graphic designers, housekeepers, secretaries). The non-shortage people only get the original tuition only reimbursement which would be fine except that I've already enrolled in the other college. This wonderful little change in policy is going to cost me $1000.
I'm so sick of non-clinical employees (anyone without a medical background) being treated like second class dirt. They take our benefits away and give the clinical people more benefits. They are paying clinical people $10-20k sign-on bonuses but can't seem to give anyone more than a 3% cost of living raise. They are going to raise the starting salary of nurses from something like $18/hr to $35+/hr (or so I've heard). They are getting huge raises but no one else is. I won't even go into what they did to our housekeeping staff. It's just too mean.
I understand that there is a huge nationwide shortage of nurses and that we need to compete to get them but that doesn't mean you should treat everyone else like dirt in the process.
This is really getting old. Sorry for the rant. I needed to vent.
Because of this I started taking my MBA classes at a different university. It is a better program, I'll be done in 18 months vs 5 years, but it's slightly more expensive.
Now all of a sudden they have changed the policy again. Now they are saying that since we have some positions in the company where we have a shortage of labor (nursing - we're a hospital system) that they are only going to pay the 100% reimbursement for them and not for non-shortage positions (i.e. graphic designers, housekeepers, secretaries). The non-shortage people only get the original tuition only reimbursement which would be fine except that I've already enrolled in the other college. This wonderful little change in policy is going to cost me $1000.
I'm so sick of non-clinical employees (anyone without a medical background) being treated like second class dirt. They take our benefits away and give the clinical people more benefits. They are paying clinical people $10-20k sign-on bonuses but can't seem to give anyone more than a 3% cost of living raise. They are going to raise the starting salary of nurses from something like $18/hr to $35+/hr (or so I've heard). They are getting huge raises but no one else is. I won't even go into what they did to our housekeeping staff. It's just too mean.
I understand that there is a huge nationwide shortage of nurses and that we need to compete to get them but that doesn't mean you should treat everyone else like dirt in the process.
This is really getting old. Sorry for the rant. I needed to vent.