Switching from private care to working a facility SUCKS. My mom was an at home care giver who worked privately, she was disabled herself so she can’t work most normal jobs, however, the type of care giving my family provides is usually either emotional or end of life care. We wouldn’t be changing clients or showering them ((seldom at least)) and most of it was driving clients to and from places, helping with medications and picking them up, laundry, grabbing them food, etc.
It was more like a personal assistant. My mom and me both decided to do it together and I would often tag along to help and our clients always enjoyed having someone younger around.
I decided going into care giving at an assisted living facility would be great! It was a perfect fit for me!
Wrong.
I asked for PM, fuck even morning. I got night shift. Ok, I’m sure it’s not that bad, I get home every day at 6 am and I’ll just sleep till 1-3 in the afternoon and be awake till my shift starts at 10. My first mistake was thinking this, unfortunately with how exhausted I am after work I’ve started sleeping almost 12 hours because I cannot handle the fatigue. Any less and I pass out at work. My family never sees me any more, I only eat one meal a day if I even eat, and I’m severely depressed.
I work in the dementia patient center and it is horrendous. I work by myself at night trying to do countenance on more then half of them, meaning every one gets changed every two hours. Some nights it isn’t horrible and I only change a few people. Nights like tonight I have two residents with diarrhea, one lady refuses to get changed or up, and the others are just generally wet and need to be changed. Some of these people can’t even walk and I’m expected to flip over fully grown men so I can wipe their asses.
I’m making 19 an hour. I’m forced to stay up to 40 minutes last my scheduled time due to morning shift never being in on time. One of the benifiets of working here was free lunches! Gourmet food cooked by chiefs!!
Unless your night shift! You get jack shit! I mean I get it, no one is cooking this late but it feels like false advertising. I’m constantly getting yelled at by residents, almost assualted, and then when I reported a coworker for calling me slurs my manager simply said it wasn’t a big deal because not everyone gets offended by those words.
I’m sick of this place. My bonus is coming and I honestly wanna say fuck it and just quit today. I was waiting till my check fully goes through but I don’t think I can wait another three days of this hell.