"Management above supervisor can be very demeaning. There are managers that don't speak to you. Some are not approachable and will appear bothered if you approach them. They reprimand you for talking but they will carry on 15-20 minute conversations with each other. You can hear managers using profanities, discussing other employees and problems or just flat out talking about non work related issues on daily basis."

"Unfortunately I think that you may have taken someone who was a good subordinate and moved them into a leadership role. He has built layers between him and the staff to go through. His interpretation of company policy is skewed to what should NOT be expected. He has a small system running less than 1000 calls annually, but has two supervisors, a schedule person, a uniform person, etc. There are many things missing from the service that are a state rule - he doesn't understand that EMR is a state requirement."

"I believe that I was a victim of an aggressive, ambitious manager who saw me as a threat to her pursuit of power. I believe that she instigated my forced "retirement", which is the "messaging" that is being given to patients and coworkers alike. I am certain that a competent attorney would surely see much of the motivation to my job elimination as the result of discriminatory ageism (I am nearly 65)."

"12-14 hour days because there was no support for staffing, and the hospital keeps taking patients through the ED no matter how it impacts other departments. Constantly holding patients under anaesthesia in the OR because of the lack of beds on the floor and inability to move patients out of PACU, or even move our recovering patients to the overflow area in MY department (recovery). The space is monopolized by the CCO to house ER patients waiting for beds on the floor, upwards to 3 days. VERY POOR patient care and definitely impacts patient satisfaction, which the CEO demands we meet. It's a no-win situation."