I'm feeling like shit today. I missed work yesterday with a fever, ended up being covid negative which actually works against me in this instance. You see even though I'm a nurse in a large hospital network, we do not gain any sick time. We only get PTO. So in order to miss work today I would have to use PTO. Which in itself isn't that bad. But I work in a clinic that is closed on all federal holidays but guess what….there are no paid holidays either!!! So everytime there is a Thanksgiving, Christmas, New years, Martin Luther Kings, Memorial day, 4th of July, any sort of holiday that falls on a weekday….that deducts PTO from me also. So it makes it nearly impossible to build PTO.
I'm engaged to a wonderful Filipina. We have a K1 visa applied for, it's been applied for 14 months now and is nearing completion. We are only awaiting an appointment for her to do her interview and then our family will be put together. This is all I have wanted for god knows how long. We've been long distance for almost 3 years now and before COVID this entire process only took 5 to 7 months.
When she arrives here I'm going to need to take time off whether I have it built up or not. So I'm constantly stressed tf out about how much PTO time I'm NOT building up. Then on top of everything else I end up with this cold. Yesterday I had a fever, working was completely out of the question. The fever did break but I feel AWFUL. I should not be around patients today imo. But it takes me 3 weeks to earn back a sick day. And I did one of those YESTERDAY!
How can a medical provider have such a shit policy for taking care of people that take care of people???