Try putting a face on those losing jobs at Forum Health

Opinion: October 25, 2009 at 12:00a.m.

EDITOR:

I would like take the time to personally thank everyone in Forum Health management who was involved in the elimination of my job and my termination. I am a 53-year-old widow who has worked at Forum Health since December 1990. During my time there I have held various positions. When first hired, I worked in the lab. I then took a position at Beeghly Medical Park. We all know what happened there. I then came back to North and took a position in radiology. I was notified by my supervisor on Oct. 19 that Nov. 20 will be my last work day. I have no recourse. I am simply out the door.

Over the last 19 years of my employment I have seen CEOs come and go, always with their pockets full of money when they left. What makes management and their outrageous salaries any more important than my job? For a while, Buzz Pishkur was to get $9000 a week to consult. Charles Neumann will get $75,000 a month as an interim CEO. That is outrageous. How is any one person worth that kind of money?

All I ever wanted to do was come to work every day and do my job to the best of my ability. I no longer have that option. Since the untimely death of my husband five years ago, I need to work. I’m quite sure that no one involved in my termination even knows who I am or really cares about what happens to me. They will be all comfy in their nice houses with their big salaries to keep them warm this winter.

So to everyone in management involved in this turn of events, if you see me and my 78-year-old mother, who now lives with me, standing on the street corner, please throw us a couple of bucks to help out. I know you can afford it. Oh, and Happy Holidays to you and yours.

KATHLEEN COSTELLO

Boardman