Lately there has been a lot of changes to our family and as well as the world around us. This has impacted a lot of significant changes.
First of all, Da's job, which he has been working at the hospital as an IT tech for the last twelve year, his position with a few of his coworkers, was outsourced to a contracting company at the beginning of the year. He will still do the work at the hospital but his paycheck will be from the new company along with other associated benefits. In the initial month, there wasn't much changes, however as months progress, a lot of things changed. The management changed from Chris Brown to new managers with the new company, in fact there was two managers, which both are 'remote' managers. This means they are coming from the new company and are not always on site to manage the staff, since these new managers manage staff from other hospitals too. These managers have a very different style of management and since this is a large contracting company, it seems like all their care about is bottom and numbers and metrics, so since the change occurred each and everyday the management want numbers to be reported, which is contrastly different from the previous management.
With that said, Da have been very actively looking for other job opportunities. He was informed of the changes about a year ago but he he wasn't actively looking, but since this change and especially the new company culture of just seeing employees as a number, don't seem to value the employee talents, and much of the responsibilities have been taken away to basically not doing what he used to do, Da has been spending much of his time looking for a new job. Since Da had become complacent in his old job, he hasn't really looked for a job in over 10 years, much has changed in the IT industry. He needed to polished his resume, he has been talking to friends, church friends, school, and reaching out to many places to get a lot of pointers and how to apply for jobs. He has applied to many websites and sent out many resumes since late 2019.
He learned that during the holidays or end of year, there aren't many companies responding back to his applications. Then after New Years, there were some responses, but only phone interviews. Then around February a infectious disease called Corona Virus or Covid-19 surfaced and became a global pandemic, which impacted the entire globe, including US and making job finding impossible. ( Covid-19 will be discussed in a different post.) So this pandemic literally shut down all businesses or forced many employees to work from home. Since this impacted the US economy and many businesses, many companies aren't hiring anymore so Da's not getting responses from employers that he applied to.
Although he's thankful for still having a job, he still has to report to work everyday at the hospital. As the confirmed cases of patients climb at work, reaching over 19 confirmed patients, he's taking more precautions to not contract the virus and definitely not bring it home.
So while there has been a lapse in our family posting, it is due to Da trying to figure things out, using a lot of resources and time to find another job, and diligently staying safe during the continual changes and impact of this Covid-19 virus.
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First of all, Da's job, which he has been working at the hospital as an IT tech for the last twelve year, his position with a few of his coworkers, was outsourced to a contracting company at the beginning of the year. He will still do the work at the hospital but his paycheck will be from the new company along with other associated benefits. In the initial month, there wasn't much changes, however as months progress, a lot of things changed. The management changed from Chris Brown to new managers with the new company, in fact there was two managers, which both are 'remote' managers. This means they are coming from the new company and are not always on site to manage the staff, since these new managers manage staff from other hospitals too. These managers have a very different style of management and since this is a large contracting company, it seems like all their care about is bottom and numbers and metrics, so since the change occurred each and everyday the management want numbers to be reported, which is contrastly different from the previous management.
With that said, Da have been very actively looking for other job opportunities. He was informed of the changes about a year ago but he he wasn't actively looking, but since this change and especially the new company culture of just seeing employees as a number, don't seem to value the employee talents, and much of the responsibilities have been taken away to basically not doing what he used to do, Da has been spending much of his time looking for a new job. Since Da had become complacent in his old job, he hasn't really looked for a job in over 10 years, much has changed in the IT industry. He needed to polished his resume, he has been talking to friends, church friends, school, and reaching out to many places to get a lot of pointers and how to apply for jobs. He has applied to many websites and sent out many resumes since late 2019.
He learned that during the holidays or end of year, there aren't many companies responding back to his applications. Then after New Years, there were some responses, but only phone interviews. Then around February a infectious disease called Corona Virus or Covid-19 surfaced and became a global pandemic, which impacted the entire globe, including US and making job finding impossible. ( Covid-19 will be discussed in a different post.) So this pandemic literally shut down all businesses or forced many employees to work from home. Since this impacted the US economy and many businesses, many companies aren't hiring anymore so Da's not getting responses from employers that he applied to.
Although he's thankful for still having a job, he still has to report to work everyday at the hospital. As the confirmed cases of patients climb at work, reaching over 19 confirmed patients, he's taking more precautions to not contract the virus and definitely not bring it home.
So while there has been a lapse in our family posting, it is due to Da trying to figure things out, using a lot of resources and time to find another job, and diligently staying safe during the continual changes and impact of this Covid-19 virus.
