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I've always been the one giving to others "Go Fund Me" pages here and on Facebook as well as ones posted on KTLA-5, never thinking that I would need to ask for help...but here I am! I need your help!
In January 2017, I excepted a job as a practice manager with a large medical specialty practice in Los Angeles! After being out of work for over a year due to an illness and 2 weeks after my 61st birthday and $65 in my bank account, I thought this new job was a God send! The cherry on top, it was in downtown LA! Anyone who knows me knows I love LA and it was my dream to one day move to LA ! Finally after coming out of the worst and hardest year of my life, I thought things were finally turning around for me.
I started my new job right away commuting daily on the Metrolink train, Metro subway, and Metro bus, then walking 4 blocks to my dream job. I promised my boss I'd move into LA asap. I found an apartment that would be ready to move into Aug 1st!
My new boss gave me an advance on my pay to help me with the application fees! I started the process of moving into LA! At the same time I was digging myself out of the financial hole that being out of work for over a year had put me in. Slowly but surely things were finally looking up.
I loved my new job and as hard as the commute was I stayed focused on my job and counting the days till I would live 15 mins from my office! I was so excited and thankful that my life was turning around! Or so I thought! To say "hind sight" is 20/20 is an understatement.
As the weeks passed I started noticing several collection notices and collection calls. My boss passed it off as discrepancies and asked me to refer them to her bookkeeper- so I did.
I’d try to order office supplies and her credit cards were being rejected. This was starting to become an everyday event. I asked the bookkeeper if the practice was in financial trouble, she said no!
All the while, I noticed my boss meeting with other doctors. She told me she was going to add another doctor to the practice but it did not set right with me, as she did not see enough patients to justify another doctor!
So I googled the doctor whom she claimed would be joining the practice, it turns out he's a doctor with a practice of his own.
OK, she's selling her practice???
So I point blank asked my boss if she was selling the practice and she told me “No, and I had nothing to worry about”. That's what I wanted to hear!
Then on Wednesday came late notices on office-rent and staff parking passes That same day my boss told me she decided not to switch over to EMR (electronic medical records) a project I'd been working on for 2 months-we were to start the transition in 6 days! She would not give me a reason why!!
Then on Friday she told me due to financial hardship she had to let me go! I remember her saying stone faced "thank you for your service”.
I felt like I had been sucker punched. I could not breathe or speak.
I don't know how I made the long commute back to Union Station, let alone back home without breaking down into tears. I think I was on auto pilot and I woke up on the train (when a friend who never takes the train, did so on Friday) asked if I was ok! She could tell I was visibly upset and shaking.
Longer story short I found out that my bosses practice was indeed for sale. I was hired to make the office " appeared to be stable" so the sale would go through smoothly.
My boss knew from the day I was hired she was in deep financial trouble and I would be short term.
What hurts is her dishonesty has now put me right back into the financial hole I had been digging myself out of.
I needed a job and would have accepted short term! She fed into my dream of moving into Los Angeles, all the while knowing I did not have a future with her practice! Had she been up-front and honest I would not have made plans to move into Los Angeles from Ontario California where I have lived for the past 17 years!
This has put me into a huge hardship and it's so embarrassing! I'm totally and absolutely devastated both financially and emotionally! I don't have money for rent, car loan etc! I need to swallow my pride and ask for your help! Please can you help me!
If not for me, please do it for my pets! I have 4 rescued orphaned cats that have been with me 9 years and a cockatiel bird who turned 23 last week. I will be homeless in a matter of a few weeks! I do not want to lose my family. Please help!
Also please keep me in your prayers that I find another job...and soon!
Thank you for your time and any support you can give
-Lynn Childers
In January 2017, I excepted a job as a practice manager with a large medical specialty practice in Los Angeles! After being out of work for over a year due to an illness and 2 weeks after my 61st birthday and $65 in my bank account, I thought this new job was a God send! The cherry on top, it was in downtown LA! Anyone who knows me knows I love LA and it was my dream to one day move to LA ! Finally after coming out of the worst and hardest year of my life, I thought things were finally turning around for me.
I started my new job right away commuting daily on the Metrolink train, Metro subway, and Metro bus, then walking 4 blocks to my dream job. I promised my boss I'd move into LA asap. I found an apartment that would be ready to move into Aug 1st!
My new boss gave me an advance on my pay to help me with the application fees! I started the process of moving into LA! At the same time I was digging myself out of the financial hole that being out of work for over a year had put me in. Slowly but surely things were finally looking up.
I loved my new job and as hard as the commute was I stayed focused on my job and counting the days till I would live 15 mins from my office! I was so excited and thankful that my life was turning around! Or so I thought! To say "hind sight" is 20/20 is an understatement.
As the weeks passed I started noticing several collection notices and collection calls. My boss passed it off as discrepancies and asked me to refer them to her bookkeeper- so I did.
I’d try to order office supplies and her credit cards were being rejected. This was starting to become an everyday event. I asked the bookkeeper if the practice was in financial trouble, she said no!
All the while, I noticed my boss meeting with other doctors. She told me she was going to add another doctor to the practice but it did not set right with me, as she did not see enough patients to justify another doctor!
So I googled the doctor whom she claimed would be joining the practice, it turns out he's a doctor with a practice of his own.
OK, she's selling her practice???
So I point blank asked my boss if she was selling the practice and she told me “No, and I had nothing to worry about”. That's what I wanted to hear!
Then on Wednesday came late notices on office-rent and staff parking passes That same day my boss told me she decided not to switch over to EMR (electronic medical records) a project I'd been working on for 2 months-we were to start the transition in 6 days! She would not give me a reason why!!
Then on Friday she told me due to financial hardship she had to let me go! I remember her saying stone faced "thank you for your service”.
I felt like I had been sucker punched. I could not breathe or speak.
I don't know how I made the long commute back to Union Station, let alone back home without breaking down into tears. I think I was on auto pilot and I woke up on the train (when a friend who never takes the train, did so on Friday) asked if I was ok! She could tell I was visibly upset and shaking.
Longer story short I found out that my bosses practice was indeed for sale. I was hired to make the office " appeared to be stable" so the sale would go through smoothly.
My boss knew from the day I was hired she was in deep financial trouble and I would be short term.
What hurts is her dishonesty has now put me right back into the financial hole I had been digging myself out of.
I needed a job and would have accepted short term! She fed into my dream of moving into Los Angeles, all the while knowing I did not have a future with her practice! Had she been up-front and honest I would not have made plans to move into Los Angeles from Ontario California where I have lived for the past 17 years!
This has put me into a huge hardship and it's so embarrassing! I'm totally and absolutely devastated both financially and emotionally! I don't have money for rent, car loan etc! I need to swallow my pride and ask for your help! Please can you help me!
If not for me, please do it for my pets! I have 4 rescued orphaned cats that have been with me 9 years and a cockatiel bird who turned 23 last week. I will be homeless in a matter of a few weeks! I do not want to lose my family. Please help!
Also please keep me in your prayers that I find another job...and soon!
Thank you for your time and any support you can give
-Lynn Childers
Organizer
Lynn Childers
Organizer
Ontario, CA
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