My Diary

Nepo Hire

Nepo Hire, a term I've come to hate the most. A term that means you only got hired because a family member works wherever you do or want to. You see, for only a few short weeks I was working as a unit clerk in a hospital where my mom also works. She's seen as a managerial figure in the unit I was working on. Though she doesn't see herself as that. For a while everything was perfectly fine. I was unaware that the nurses were seeing me as a nepo-hire. Though I should've had a clue with how one nurse decided to call my mom a pain in the ass in front of me (which is kind of true, she can be).  Sure, the nurses tried covering it up as if I wasn't doing my job correctly, but I know the truth.  The day I was fired I was told that it was because I couldn't speak Spanish (language barrier with those patient's families that only did), which wasn't in the job description, and I didn't "speak loud enough" on the phone. Later I heard I got lied to and nurses were complaining about me. And I just know it was because they saw me as a nepo-hire not because I did anything wrong. Though my mom will continuously deny that as the truth.  Sometimes she acts like she doesn't blame me for what happened and yet I think secretly she's full of shit and does.