Tomorrow my mom has her final chemo treatment. She then has eight weeks before the double mastectomy and reconstruction. She's doing well - great, even - and was planning on returning to work after the long weekend, at least until she had her surgery (at which point she would be off for another 6 weeks). Except she won't be going back, since the medical clinic she worked for decided that it would be cheaper for them to outsource the job she did. So they gave her two weeks notice.
Two weeks. As if they hadn't come to this decision weeks before. Instead, they waited until right before she was planning on returning to let her know that she had no job to return to. As a result, she missed an opportunity to take over the job of a retiring friend in a clinic she enjoys working in. And given the fact that she's about to face major surgery in two months time, and has just finished 4 months of chemo, she's not exactly in a position to be looking for more work.
You would think that an employer who deals with sick people all the time would have more compassion. What a bunch of fuckers.
Seriously.
