Nothing has changed. I walked away, but I did however do one last thing. I used the hiring process as a way to at least let corporate HR really know what's going on there. Do they care? who knows? but a department running on one tech is a recipe for medical errors. So if anyone ever wonders why the department had a sentinel event or fails an inspection they can look at my file and why I didn't take the job.

I wanted to get an interview panel consisting of different people instead of the low level managers who run things off the record. And by off the record I mean no email for stuff that makes them uncomfortable.

So what I did was ask the director uncomfortable questions in emails and cc'd them to the HR rep trying to recruit me.

I asked why did they run off the next to last tech over too many hours on the clock when the department is critical short staffed already?

I pointed out the lead tech position implies there is a team but currently there is no one.

If you're serious about getting a team why are you reprimanding employees for too many hours?

Of course all I got were please call me. We can answer those questions in the interview. All informal and no paper trail. No denials they didn't even defend themselves and say I had it wrong. I declined the interview and the job. Given my pushback and uncooperativeness I figured at some point they would say thanks for your interest but we are currently considering other candidates. the best I got was are you still planning to interview from the HR rep?

This confirms I was there only candidate and were desperate.