feeling kindof kicked in the gut...
A couple months ago I applied internally for another per diem MLT job at another hospital within the lab chain. A couple weeks ago the lab manager there called me. After a day or 2 of phone tag, we connected on Monday, 2 weeks ago. Turns out they have 2 or 3 fulltime openings as well as the per diem. They've had a student in clinicals there who originally wanted the per diem, but now may want a full time.
So she said she'd have some idea what was going on and would call me toward the end of the week. Turns out our lab manager, who was recently promoted to "District Manager" was going to be visiting her lab that Thursday.
She still hadn't called me a week after she said she would. So last Friday I called and left a message.
Still no call back. 
Similar thing happened when I applied at a lab outside our system this past winter. I heard back from HR, who told me they'd sent my application on to the hiring manager. I never heard back from them again, but they did hire one of our night shift people away.
In the meantime, back in Feb, I had talked to our lab supervisor (now lab manager) to let her know that I was looking for additional per diem work -- I was giving her a heads up since her name is listed on the application as my supervisor and I wanted her to know I wasn't planning to leave this lab but my other part time job after April (when their high season is over). She talked about me maybe picking up some time at our sister lab, as well as Saturday am which is hard to fill. She said we could talk about it more in May.
A couple weeks ago I discovered she *slashed* my schedule in May -- from 1-2 days/week to 3 days in a 5 week month. And took off on vacation in London, which she must have known she was going on back in Feb.
So I'm sitting here checking my phone every time I come back inside and wondering what the eff happened. 
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Hang in there. 
When I talked to her back in February, she said she'd do anything she could to help me. She seemed really supportive. And every fellow tech that I asked to be a reference was happy and supportive.
I'm trying not to worry too much, but the not hearing anything from anybody is making me crazy. I had asked her to reduce my hours for April, during tax season, and told her I'd be more fully available in May. Instead, I got increased hours April, and slashed in May.
But she gets scheduling mixed up all the time; it's a chronic complaint. Now they're looking for someone else to take over scheduling.
I know they're going through a lot of changes right now. One of the MLTs at the sister lab decided she wants to work at the lab I'm at. She's been with them for decades, so what she wants she gets. They're training her at my lab right now, so it may be that the budget for me was cut to pay for her training time up here.
I just wish that I'd hear back from the other lab with the different manager. Even if the district manager cut her open positions -- which is entirely possible in the current environment -- simple courtesy would be to let me know "sorry." So maybe no news is good news in that she doesn't have any new information...
It's the not hearing from anybody, nobody to talk to, that has me feeling sick. It takes me back to 2002, when I was laid off and my old career crashed and burned. For 2 years after 911, nobody returned calls or responded to hundreds of resumes. Not quite nobody. One nasty HR person in Colorado wrote back and asked why she should consider someone 1500 miles away when she had hundreds of qualified people unemployed right there.
You start to feel like you don't even exist any more. Or exist only for people to kick.
