'They said they'd fire me if I didn't sign': Company with high turnover institutes new policy on resigning, prompting backlash

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    Font - This has to be illegal!!! I hope you all are doing well and had a great weekend! Starting today, a new policy will be put into place regarding the appropriate time for submitting resignations. Due to the extensive amount of time training takes, finding suitable replacement scribes within a standard 2 week period is impossible. Moving forward, we expect everyone to provide us with at least a 30 day resignation notice for Emergency Department scribes and at least a 45 day resignation notice
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    Font - Anyone who fails to provide management with the proper notice will be separated from our company in poor standing. Leaving the company in poor standing means you will not be eligible to be rehired or return to our company in any capacity, you will be unable to use or any of our management team members as references for other jobs, school applications, or other opportunities, and we will inform the physicians you work with that we do not recommend them writing letters of recommendation. Ex
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    Font - My best friend works as a medical scribe in Texas and a lot of worker(like 6) recently quit because of bad pay ($12/hour I believe) and bad working conditions such as being forced to work multiple over nights in a row with no night differential/bonus.
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    Font - colostitute 10 hr. ago Totally legal for them to decide to never hire you again without the notice they are looking for. Totally legal for an employee to give them no notice and just resign without notice. Why would anyone want to return to a company that pays s and does this? 2.9k Reply Share
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    Font - RobbieNguyen OP. 10 hr. ago So the problem that bugs my friend is that they'll "inform" the providers(physicians) to not give us a letter of recommendation for medical school and whatnot. I don't even think the providers care about this and usually will help out their scribes but that's just my perspective. 834 Reply Share
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    Font - skywarka 7 hr. ago . That's why you don't give them any notice whatsoever. You ask the physicians for letters of recommendation while you're secretly looking for other work, then submit resignation effective immediately once you have something else lined up. 1.9k Reply Share
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    Font - OkSmile 8 hr. ago I had a company ask me to sign an "acknowledgement" of a similar policy. I marked it up to be "mutually reciprocal", ie both parties required 30 notice to terminate the employment. They refused the markup. I refused to sign the unilateral version. They said they'd fire me if I didn't sign. I said that was always their option, and would cost them unemployment. They grumbled but backed down. But certain HR jerks hated me ever after. 725 Reply Share ...
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    Font - kleveinRipperThird - 8 hr. ago This kind of bull is the stuff that shows that employers these days truly have lost their minds. How about I do this, bro: rather than give you 30 days notice, Ill give you the bird and you can f off, which is what you were planning on doing anyways. Reply Share 192
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    Font - ndnd_of_omicron 10 hr. ago "No." is a complete sentence. Lol. Dont threaten me with a good time. This is some "irs gonna go on your permanent record bull 154 Reply Share
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    Font - redditnearme. 10 hr. ago If they fire, downsize or lay you off you won't get thirty to forty-five days notice. Quietly start your own transcription business and then quit with no notice once you're making enough to replace your income. 111 Reply Share
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    Font - ThickNeighborhood191. 6 hr. ago If you escape incorrectly, we won't enslave you again. Win-win 104 Reply Share
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    Font - Chilled MonkeyBrains1. 9 hr. ago This sounds like empty bluster. They're pretending to have the upper hand while actually panicking over staff shortages that they themselves caused. The wording borders on comical: why would you care if the Chief Scribe stupidly adds you to a schedule that takes effect after you've quit?
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    Font - Think: If a scribe gave notice because he/she already has a new job offer, then obviously a reference, if any, from this current facility doesn't mean squat. So even assuming the threat is real, the scribe wouldn't need to worry about it until the next job change (possibly years later), and then only if the new employer felt like checking more than the most recent reference.
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    Glasses - POO emueller5251 - 10 hr. ago LOL! How are they going to prevent people from using employees as references?
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    Font - RobbieNguyen OP. 10 hr. ago That's what I said! The doctors my friend works with hate this company with a passion...as far as I know the company is hired by the hospital so they have no right to ask to not give a letter of recommendation. They can ask but I don't think the providers care.
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    Font - Extreme-Degree8023. 8 hr. ago 1. Can this be posted on the company's social media and hiring sites? LinkedIn, Indeed, FB, whatever else. They should be ashamed/shamed.
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    Font - 2. I'd use the screenshot, or better yet, the document with company logo, in lieu of reference letter along with the resignation I would be giving them that would include the details I'd want a potential new employer to see. "Respectfully submitting the customary 2 week notice as an employee with stellar attendance and performance...etc." They'll look like the they are.
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    Font - 3. I'm curious if Dept of Labor says anything about this sort of thing.

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