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​Giving Staffing a Good Name

You Caused This!

I recently received a cover letter of a therapist wanting to join Stambush. Here is what it said in part

Dear Mr. Stambush:
I am interested in applying for a position as a full-time (title omitted) advertised on your website. Stambush Staffing is well-known in the Houston medical community and I am impressed with your reputation for providing quality staffing in a variety of settings. My current facility has used Stambush Staffing to fill our needs and the therapists are always top-notch.

Without taking up much more space, I would like to thank you all for being “top notch” professionals and the reason this letter exists. Sometimes you may think nobody is watching you, but they are. This is why we have the reputation we have. You, and people like you, caused this.

Watch Out for Non-Compete Clauses

Without taking up much more space, I would like to thank you all for being “top notch” professionals and the reason this letter exists. Sometimes you may think nobody is watching you, but they are. This is why we have the reputation we have. You, and people like you, caused this.

“Not fair,” you say. I agree. I think the meaning of the Non-Compete Clause in the contract is to prevent an employee from going to work for a rival in a certain area. If a therapist says that to the prospective employer, the prospective employer just might agree, especially as long as the therapist doesn’t ask for too much leniency. Of course the confidentiality clause should apply and the exception should be written very narrowly to exclude an established staffing agency.

Why did I write this? It recently happened.  A therapist went to work for a company and signed a non-compete. This therapist worked a few weeks and hated it. The therapist quit and wants to join Stambush, where we can put him/her in another facility close to his/her former employer. Unfortunately, the non-complete clause prohibits the therapist from doing this.  Yes, I have called the facility to see if we can get an exception, but I haven't even gotten a return phone call so far.

Non-Compete Clauses are alive, well, and enforceable in Texas.

Disrespecting the Profession Leads to Lower Standards of Care

We have known them all our lives. They were the kids who went overboard, got greedy, got lazy, and messed things up for everybody else. Well, today those kids have grown up to be adults. Some even run companies, and others join companies like them. That in itself is sad, but it gets even worse when you think of this happening in the health care professions. How do we fix this? I think we cannot be shy about it. No, we don’t have to call people and/or companies out, but the way we work, the things we stand for, and the company we keep go a long way to raising our professions' standards of care.