Month: May 2022

A friend and former coworker left my hospital to go work at a private Botox center as an aesthetic nurse. The pay is about what I am making as an ICU nurse with none of the stress of the ICU. There’s an opening and I was considering it because I’m getting burnt out. On Thursday a nurse calls out of work. We’ll call her Sally. Sally is supposed to be the on-call nurse this weekend. My manager informs me that she hasn’t heard from Sally and just in case she is sick can I be the on-call for this weekend? I said no, and then finally agreed after being guilted. Then I was informed that I wouldn’t officially be the on-call but rather the backup if Sally was not available. Meaning I would be on-call but not getting paid for it. Well that was a hard no. I said don’t…

So basically, there's a child sx offender that works at my job. As a CSA survivor, this made me extremely uncomfortable finding out about this. I told my manager about it and not only did he not know, he didn't care either. I told my immediate coworkers that have kids, because I feel like they have a right to know, but the word has spread around to the majority of the store. Our management's response is “if you don't like it, get another job”. I have an inkling that HR might not know about this, as he had the job before he was convicted. If I call HR, can I be fired for this? I understand that its an anonymous call, but management is already eyeing me because they think I spread the word to the other departments when I didn't, I only told the coworkers that work next to…

Alright antiwork, this sub is awesome for sharing stories and what they wish they knew before going through a massive change in one’s life by quitting. I want to pull all of that goodness together into one place; have a learning from when you quit or something you think others should know when they quit…:share it here. The do’s of what to do when quitting and the don’ts of what not to do when quitting. Similar to a union, we are much stronger when we teach and learn from each other so really I want to hear it all down below so ultimately when I quit next month, I’m prepared going into it.

I’ve heard that the work place looks nothing today like it did pre covid. What are some changes/differences?

As the title says, my employer is now requiring us to install Microsoft Authenticator onto our personal cell phones in order to access our work email (not just from our phones, but from our work computers, as well). Installing anything that's employer-mandated on my personal devices makes me extremely uncomfortable– if they want us to do that, they should provide us with work phones, but I work in public education, so that's not going to happen. But for people who know more about the app than I do: Is it something that can send information from our devices back to our employer? I've looked around but haven't been able to find a definitive answer. I heard that it can show your employer a list of all the apps you have on your phone, which I already feel is too much information for them to have, but I mostly worry about…