Antiwork

So I'm an LPN with a Diploma from a tech school. Currently it's school, working towards my RN BSN. Been an LPN for 7 years and have various fields of experience. From geriatric nursing home type of work to currently clinical dialysis setting. Our workload has been increasing rapidly with no additional help from additional staffing. Our company keeps saying it's because people don't want to work for us. Well with our current wages I can't blame them. I've been with this company for 4 years and have only seen a raises adding up to of a little under 2 dollars. And this was during the height of COVID. Nursing agencies have been increasing and nurses have been quitting in droves for what these agencies are offering. Pay is basically almost double depending on what cases you pick up. I'm posting here wondering if there are any nurses here who…

Basically the heading. Paladin is a terribly managed company who completely mishandled the covid pandemic. Managers were all working from home pretty much asap, while most of the rest of the office staff were forced to continue to work on site. I worked in a large room that housed 3 teams, so they moved two of those teams out in order to “comply with covid protocols” but moved both of those teams to a much smaller conference room and set us up facing each other so that we were all breathing at each other. One staff member had a girlfriend who returned from a trip in China and was ordered to isolate at home, he requested to be able to work from home temporarily and was promptly denied. So he tried to just use his PTO to stay home instead and was told if he didn't continue to come in…

But not really… I used to work at a pretty well known private members club as the head bartender. Most of the clientele were in the influencer business, or celebrities. Basically I was hired before the location opened, and there was only one person above me in my department, the bar manager. Upon opening we immediately found ourselves completely unable to keep up with all the bullshit going on around us. Every single day we were forced to work over hours, with not enough staff, and had to bend the rules constantly. Even if one of the members was abusively rude to us, we had to just take it and move on. The club consisted of 6 bars over 3 floors. Normally we'd have a minimum of 2 bartenders per bar but after a month the upper management forced us to downsize and many of the bartenders were made to…