Made a Do Not Rehire 10yrs ago, due to personality conflict

[nolaPT]

New Orleans, Louisiana. I work in Healthcare. I was made a do not rehire two weeks into a months resignation notice. I was leaving the organization due to unscrupulous practices by my supervisor, though that was not my stated reason. Week two of my notice I was out due to severe case of the bird flu (remember that medical scare). My first day back my supervisor came into my office and instructed me to back my personal belongings and leave. I told her I thought her to be an unfair and dishonest person (I don't advise this), she called security to walk me out. I had worked there one year had an above expectations review and received a merit increase. My supervisor was terminated several years after I left due to unscrupulous practices. The hospital I was made do not rehire at is now part of a 5 hospital consortium with all applications going through one central HR at my former employer, so now I am essentially a do not rehire a the vast majority of hosptials in the city. Any advice?

 

[drruthless]

New Orleans, Louisiana. I work in Healthcare. I was made a do not rehire two weeks into a months resignation notice. I was leaving the organization due to unscrupulous practices by my supervisor, though that was not my stated reason. Week two of my notice I was out due to severe case of the bird flu (remember that medical scare). My first day back my supervisor came into my office and instructed me to back my personal belongings and leave. I told her I thought her to be an unfair and dishonest person (I don't advise this), she called security to walk me out. I had worked there one year had an above expectations review and received a merit increase. My supervisor was terminated several years after I left due to unscrupulous practices. The hospital I was made do not rehire at is now part of a 5 hospital consortium with all applications going through one central HR at my former employer, so now I am essentially a do not rehire a the vast majority of hosptials in the city. Any advice?

It is said that a squeaky wheel gets the grease.
From personal experience I've learned that you do not get a choice of lubricants or how it is to be applied.
Louisiana is an employment at will state, meaning that you can quit for any reason at any time and your employer can fire you for any reason at any time.

File for unemployment.
Good luck.

 

[cbg]

This is entirely a matter between you and the HR departments of the various hospitals. If you can effectively plead your case with one or more of them and get the "no rehire" removed, more power to you. However, with limited exceptions that do not apply here, the law takes no position on "no rehires". The law is not going to force them to remove the "no rehire" but it's also not going to prohibit you from asking them to do so, either.

 

[commentator]

This person has probably worked several more places since then. And that's about the only thing you can do after you make a mistake, you need to put time and distance and other employers between you and this incident. There's no legal way you can put yourself in a position to be rehired there or at any of the facilities affiliated with this former employer. But I would not assume I was on all their "do not rehire" lists. I'd go on and file all the applications for positions that I could, and hope that perhaps as time passes, you'll be more distant from that situation. And whatever you do, if you happen to get an interview with any of those facilities, do not mention all the conflicts and difficulties you had with that particular supervisor.

It is possible that is more of an issue than any of the "do not rehire" policies in the world. After ten years, you should have some good references from other places you have worked since this incident where you made the mistake of burning your bridges with this particular employer. But if you spend a lot of time talking about this incident, this person, their deceitful behavior and your objections to it, etc. you stand in danger of making the prospective employer think you may be more trouble than you would be worth.