Antiwork

Throwaway name because hospitals don’t fuck around. I’m not sure how I feel about this sub, but this is my story of how my last job came to a somewhat sudden end. I am a nurse and this pandemic over the last two years has been quite a ride as you can imagine. I loved my job, I loved the coworkers, the community I served in, and generally liked the management. As a nurse I’ve always felt like hospital administration and sometimes doctors viewed my profession as cattle, and treated us as such. They often leverage our empathy for patients and community to guilt/exploit us. In the middle of the pandemic it was time for the union contract to be renegotiated. I though “perfect, we’ll get a decent raise, our value has never been more apparent. Nope, the administration gave a 2.1% raise, I’m not sure of the specifics but…

Simple boss is ass, wont let me get a day off like vacation or sick without consequence. I just want a few days. So easy fake a rapid test get my 5 sick days or 5 vacation days auto approved by government standards. Tried the soda idea on my home tests, it did not work using diet coke. Please ideas!!!

Initially auto rejected by the recruitment website for this organisation, recruiter called full of apologies asking me to interview, agreed as didn't want to be rude. Interview didn't go well, forgot the company's values etc. What stuck out was being asked if I can cope being thrown in at the deep end as both members of this team will be leaving before I would start? Has this ever happened to anyone else and got the job and did ok? Am I being silly or is this a red flag? I have an offer from another company so I'm not bothered either way but it seemed strange.

I can not relate to you in your 4 house problem when I am struggling to survive, ok?

Sat in the office today listening to the HR manager and other senior managers moan about how x or y company keep recruiting our staff members – like they've been headhunted, rather than gone somewhere that they are fairly compensated for their time. Here's a thought – actually pay people what they are worth so that they don't want to leave, then if they actually DO get poached your competition has to pay the premium… Why is that hard to understand?

I was looking through my bookshelf and found the self help, get rich book she gave us and just remembered this. My first Christmas working at this backbreaking, partially dangerous, physically demanding job, she gave us $1 scratch off tickets instead of a Christmas bonus. Annoying but what can you do? My second Christmas working there, she gave us all a choice to choose between three different self help, get rich books. I don't remember what the other books were, but they were $20 a pop. There were ten of each self help book, so thirty books in total. She spent about $600 on shitty self help books instead of using that money to help us out on the holidays and give us a little Christmas bonus. The book I got was “The Latte Factory” Fun.