Posted by: Alan Hartless in God's Faithfulness on Nov 1, 2008
So I work for UTMB under Correctional Managed Care (CMC). UTMB is about to layoff 4000 jobs due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Ike. CMC has promised that our jobs are safe. Because, our hospital was attached to UTMB on Galveston Island and the political battles going on, we will not be able to get back to the way things were for who knows how long, if ever. Thus, we are getting bounced around. Our job duties have changed multiple times thus far. Come Monday, they will change again.
For many, this change comes as huge inconvenience. Many will be forced to take huge pay cuts for they will go from nights (with shift diff) to days. For, many it will be a lifestyle change because we will be going from a matrix (working a few days on then having a few days off) and some from nights to a Monday through Friday 8 - 5 job. For many, it will be difficult because of family obligations that were met under the old schedule but will not under the new. It will be difficult because many are in school and were used to having certain weekdays off to study, go to class, complete assignments, etc. But now, all will change.
However, we still have a job when so many come this month will not. And that alone should overshadow all the inconviences stated above. Yet, so many people cannot for whatever reason see that and continue to wallow in their sorrows and inconveniences. I don't understand it.
We have all been promised that once things are back in order, we will be reuninted as a team, better yet, a family. But it will take time, maybe even months. We must learn to count our blessings, focus on the positives, stick it out and move on. We must keep in mind that "this too shall pass."