The hospital laid off 25 nurses from the emergency department last month, and are simultaneously complaining that we are working too much overtime. As I point out the next paragraph, keep in mind the company refusing to pay overtime that was worked by their employees due to their mandatory training.
The mandatory training this month is for ethics in the workplace. Here is the company’s official definition of ethics:
Ethical conduct means acting in a way that follows company values and the law.
What? Since when are laws or company policies ethical? It was the law in Germany to kill Jews. Segregation was the law. Your company policy mandates that we do this gay-assed training, even though you will try to get out of paying us for it.
As a thought exercise, they ask what you would do if you discovered 10 extra vacation days in your account. Would you tell HR, or would you take the vacation? Let me flip that- let’s say that you forced your employees to work an extra 12 hours on mandatory training, but you were already over budget and the company doesn’t want to pay the expense of overtime? Do you simply erase the hours from employee’s time cards, or do you pay them?
Yes, I am looking for a job. Sure there are lots of nursing jobs, but most of them are in the jobs no one wants to do, like home health care or working in a nursing home. No thanks. It’s the hospital slow season because the snowbirds aren’t here, so there aren’t a lot of good jobs available until winter. So, I may not find a job that I like for another few months yet.
17 Comments
Anonymous · September 11, 2024 at 8:46 am
Why not recruit some fellow investors and start a doc-in-a-box and run it the way you like?
Divemedic · September 11, 2024 at 10:04 am
I’m not a provider.
Jen · September 11, 2024 at 8:50 am
So you’re one of the 25? Sorry. My critical care certs meant I was spending more time on mandatory ‘education’ than I was getting in bedside hours. Not worth it. Wanted my life back.
Divemedic · September 11, 2024 at 10:05 am
No, I am not.
Robert · September 11, 2024 at 10:07 am
Good luck with your search!
And thanks for all the work you put into this site.
Plague Monk · September 11, 2024 at 11:11 am
II’m not trying to argue with you regarding home health and nursing home nurses; I’m curious as to why these jobs are considered undesirable?
In April, I had to have a partial amputation of my right foot due to stepping on a nail and not getting it treated until it was almost too late. I spent a week and a half in the hospital, followed by 5 weeks in a rehab facility/assisted living facility, followed by a few months of regular home nurses coming to the house. I’m still going to a wound care center every week as the injury heals.
The point I’m trying to make is that all of the nurses(and staff, from janitors to doctors) have been professional, courteous and cheerful. Most of them seem to enjoy their work, as far as my wife and I can tell. A few of them have had family issues. My wife and I treat everyone with kindness, pray with those who are willing, and make sure to rate them highly. Despite my Nom-De-Net, I strive to be nice to everybody and be a good patient.
Nate · September 12, 2024 at 3:19 pm
Those jobs would be undesirable to a nurse who’s spent their career in emergency/critical care. Nursing is an incredibly broad field and part of being a nurse is figuring out where you fit and what kind of work you can excel at. If he were a home health nurse, he probably wouldn’t want anything to do with the emergency department, beyond occasionally referring a patient there.
IcyReaper · September 11, 2024 at 11:16 am
Seems like the mandatory OT for training and not getting paid would make a good federal labor lawsuit. Does your contract allow for the non payment?
Birdog357 · September 11, 2024 at 6:51 pm
Pretty sure you can’t make a contract that violates the law…
Charlie · September 11, 2024 at 11:18 am
I retired from a SC medical university and hospital system in early July of 2021. I had been planning to go out in April ’22 but the implementation of mandatory DEI training on 30 June sped up my departure. Even though this training was administered through online training with eventual live seminars I wasn’t going to be around for the BS. Lucky for me I was able to retire or it would have been ‘suck it up buttercup’ until I could. Also the hospital authority head administrator at that time was a leftist who saw systemic racism everywhere so that factored in.
Nolan Parker · September 11, 2024 at 2:36 pm
If they are going to get all Gung-Ho about law and ethics, a fella might hand a 3×5 card to whoever is running that show with the law requiring employers to pay the employees, because otherwise, Slavery?
Aaand when someone is in a position to take advantage of someone else and they do it
That is unethical.
It’s just Gotta Sukk doing such a job and seeing just how little the people who have job security and big checks appreciate it.
Vitaeus · September 11, 2024 at 3:52 pm
They mean “compliant”, not “ethical”.
Thomas · September 11, 2024 at 8:40 pm
Is this the same Hospital that was so much Better than the last one you left a few months ago? If so, was the Bait & Switch visible fairly quickly? I just left a job that promised one set of duties, and then changed the job, after I was hired. Modern Companies are getting lousy to work for.
Divemedic · September 11, 2024 at 10:52 pm
I’ve been there for a year and a half. It’s still better than the last one, but every job sucks to a certain extent. It’s why they have to pay you to get you to come in.
Thomas · September 12, 2024 at 9:30 am
Thanks for the answer. Life is that way sometimes. I hope it gets better.
Stealth Spaniel · September 12, 2024 at 12:24 am
We need to start acting more like the Hassidic Jews and start our own Christian resources. Filthie ran some info on that on his website. They take care of their own-no outsiders allowed. Hence, DEI is a dead issue, colleges are replaced with trade training, and everyone can pay their bills cuz the community only employs their own. A very novel concept. As I have said, my mother was an RN and she had people bidding for her services daily. However……there were few foreign nurses and doctors, hospitals paid employees fairly, and ObamaCare or Communist Care were all unthinkable.
Thomas · September 12, 2024 at 9:33 am
You are correct, but it will never happen. Christians are not tribal enough. There will have to be a whole lot more persecution (and sadly, Death) before Christians in the West will start to form Tribes and help only Christians.
In Mexico, I’ve heard it called “Tio Taco”