It’s not the size that matters, but how you use it.
Words never spoken to me, I swear. No, really. It’s just an idiom.
One week ago today, I walked in and gave Nascentia my things: my clinical bag, my equipment, my electronics, my trunk bin, and my ID badge.
8 months earlier it had seemed like the right move to seek employment with Nascentia. They were looking for a staff therapist and I was miserable, despite my apparent success in middle management. I had an opportunity to not deal with the toxic and back-stabbing personalities in my workplace, make equal money, and work in my car again. No more meetings. No more politics. Just me, one on one with patients again.
It was nice.
2 days ago, I sat in the parking lot of my next employer looking at the single entry to a single level building with no windows. Oswego Health’s entire office comprises nearly the same square footage as the space devoted to the employee cafe at Nascentia. I won’t have an office (not for a while, anyway). I’m back in meetings. I need to learn names, roles, who to kiss up to for what, and keep my head on swivel. No more working from my car. All of that for an extra $20,000 per year. I’m not sure that it is worth it, but I couldn’t afford not to.
I have convinced myself that it isn’t the size of the building that matters, only the people in it. There are a mere 10 people who consistently work in the small office in Fulton, I will make it 11. Now, I am one of the people in that small building, and I am one of the most influential.
The company has to grow a lot in the next months It needs to build out its own IT, billing, performance improvement/excellence, and rehab departments. The intake department needs some fine tuning too, as does the auditing department. Oh, and then there is the whole COVID-thing too. They need ideas. They need discipline. They decisiveness. They need experience. They need leadership.
They hired the right person for the job.