Yeah. Me. I lost my job of 7 years last year, despite consistent above average reviews, and then all of a sudden they started writing me up for the strangest things, and refused to provide me with documentation that I had done them. It took over a year to find another job, and that one was through an agency and I realized I didn't want to sign on with this company when the regular employees told me they were having difficulty getting paid.
In the meantime, I was contacted, interviewed, AND HIRED by the hospital I'm working at now (yes, it's FT and that's why you haven't seen me around here much lately
) and things are going quite well. Sure, I feel like I'm stumbling sometimes, but that's normal with a new job.
I had to hire a lawyer to get my unemployment, and at that time, he told me that in his 30 years of practice, he'd seen about 200 wrongful dismissal cases from the hospital. I saw him again in January for another issue, and he told me that in recent months, he was seeing 3 a week, and they were all telling my story - long term employees at the top of the pay scale at low risk for suing, and they were finding ways to kick them out. And ALL my co-workers I saw or posted with on Facebook said this place did me a huge favor.
They'd quit in a microsecond, but they have student loans or families depending on them, so they're kind of stuck.
There was another hospital that let me go after 4 months; this job experience was so bad, I briefly considered surrendering my license. Several years later, I was asked in an interview why I left Hospital X after 4 months, and I hemmed and hawed a bit. He put his pen down and said, "You can tell me the truth. I've been told many times that Hospital X is a very difficult place to work at." Earlier this year, I was asked about it in a phone interview, and I said I was a poor fit for the job (which was true, even without embellishment) and he said his agency had had so many problems with that company, they didn't do business with them at all any more.
As for CVS, when they took over the Osco in that town, the pharmacy experienced 100% turnover within a matter of weeks. Several months later, I attended a reunion of an old employer (long story) and found out that the same thing happened at EVERY CVS merger store in the Quad Cities, the Twin Cities, and Madison, Wisconsin. Even people with kids in college, disabled spouses, etc. chose to walk away rather than put up with all that crap.