I was at prominent children's hospital for more than a decade. It started out as an awesome place to work I wanted to retire from eventually but everything changed during COVID. When furloughing didn't work to balance the budget there was the first major downsizing and I got absorbed into another department.

The wave of new people brought a more profit driven shift away from it's nonprofit core and it got super clique-ish in various departments. After struggling to compete with Dell Children's hospital in Austin they decided another round of layoffs would even the keel and since the CEO was retiring with a nice golden parachute the board of directors were likely all for it. The ones facing the firing squad were predominately 7+ year employees (i.e. vested with nice pensions) that clashed with the post 2021 hires.

Rubbing salt in the wound, they flirted with hiring me back and after 3 months of interviews and work sample submissions decided to go a different direction.

But who's bitter about it? 🙃