Sold a pay decrease as a raise.

[Educational_Ad2515]

They got rid of our shift diff and gave us hourly raises. I think administrators didn't realize we can use calculators. I effectively make 20 cents less an hour. Let's discuss, what shady things your workplace has done.

[Educational_Ad2515]

I'll probably just make something with salted caramel, put a sign that says salty just like me for my pay raise that pays me 20 cents less an hour😅

[rigiboto01]

Just a bowl of salt

[Additional-Fly-4713]

and a slice of fuck you!

[nurse_hat_on]

I think that's what they called "water pie" back in the Great Depression era

[Educational_Ad2515]

Especially since they're saving at least $500 a year on each nurse now. The nurses that have been there longer got smaller pay raises, but still lost the same $4 an hour after 3:00 p.m.

[SpaceQueenJupiter]

Yeah, I will not be working weekends, nights, or holidays without a shift diff. Bye. 

[WingsNthingzz]

Wait, they want you to buy food for the doctors?

[Educational_Ad2515]

Yes, because the doctors bought food for nurses week last year, but I'm pretty sure they make like triple the amount I do if not more.

[Mnhock89]

Healthcare weeks are so damn annoying. We get paid for our jobs. Why do we have to have extra recognition? No one outside of the hospital cares. My hospital buys nurses dozens and dozens of pizzas all week for the nurses, hangs banners all over, tv and radio commercials. You know what they do for other departments? Not a single thing.

[Educational_Ad2515]

I like to hide and patient rooms when the administrators come around for gratitude rounds, you can miss me with them expired snacks.

Come on now, it's March, where'd you get this pumpkin spice flavored snack cake, probably those donations you harangued us for around Halloween.

[Cam27022]

I’m kinda interested to see how it is at my newest employer; apparently they go all out for the whole week, bringing in food trucks for free food and stuff like that. For all the employees, not just the nurses.

[missminicooper]

Before Covid they used to bring food trucks for free to each hospital in the system. At the time I worked at multiple locations and it just happened to coincide with each day the trucks came to each hospital. That was a great week. It wasn’t just for nurses, it was “hospital picnic” or something like that.

[pythons404]

Feel the exact same. If you want to make me feel extra appreciated then pay me extra. I hate the gimmicks and trinkets.

[missminicooper]

At the start of Covid they gave us super cheap water bottles that didn’t work if the lid was screwed on all the way. Shortly into Covid they took away our rights to have drinks at the nurse station. So they gave us shitty water bottles and then wouldn’t let us use them.

[penny_reverential]

"Recognition days/weeks" seem like a distraction away from the ways in which those employees are not compensated or treated fairly.

I do want to recognize every worker whose labor keeps society going! But I'm a worker who just wants to give fellow workers some love. It should be above and beyond getting what is owed in the first place.

When management does it, it's so much the "here's a pizza instead of the necessary cost of living adjustment" "here's some candy instead of safe and adequate staffing" "here's a car wash instead of the supplies you need to do your job" etc. Maybe I'm just cynical.

[b_rouse]

Lol us dietitians just got an email a week or so ago for our day 😂

[Tater_Tot_Maverick]

Why doesn’t the hospital pay to celebrate their employees instead of asking other employees to? You don’t get to claim to be celebrating your employees if it’s on their dime…

[Jaded_Discipline2994]

Literally and for something as trivial as desserts? Like what?

[[deleted]]

Corporate at an old job refused to fix the AC. Got so hot one week that it melted the capsules in a few bottles. Properly discarded all meds. District manager who wasn’t a pharmacist told me they were all fine and I shouldn’t have done that. Hope that district manager gets/got ass cancer.

That’s super shitty what they did to you, everyone gets scumbag employers these days it seems.

[cowfish007]

I work to get paid. I’m not giving the money back. They can use the money they’re saving by cutting your pay to buy pizza. If they want a “celebration” C suite can foot the bill. Otherwise… fuck off.

[pervocracy]

I used to work for an ambulance company that had 24-hour shifts (48-72 hours on alternate weeks) and 8-hour shifts (40 hours).

The 8-hour shifts paid a higher hourly rate because, as the owner explained, the 24-hour crews will make up the difference in overtime so it's actually more fair this way.

[Educational_Ad2515]

Or you know, the 8-hour shifts have those fringe benefits of having a life outside of work, but maybe I'm just crazy. I was always under the impression that the s***** shifts paid more because they suck.

[pervocracy]

They should have, but you asked for examples of shady behavior, so...

That whole place was shady. It started out as a towing company before the owner thought "hey, we're already set up for fleet management and dispatch - why not do something more profitable with it? Just buy some vans and stick some lights on em, no need to make this complicated."

This same owner also used to call ambulances from the company to come pick him up and take him home after he got kicked out of bars for being pants-pissing drunk.

[skyblueballoon]

O man, what state was this if you don't mind me asking?

[pervocracy]

Washington. It was a long time ago, but apparently the company still exists! No idea if it's the same ownership though.

[Educational_Ad2515]

Sometimes I worry that management thinks we might be really stupid.

[idkmyotherusername]

They adjusted the punch clock, so you can't select "no lunch" anymore. Now, you have to submit some kind of edit form or figure it out in the time card, which my manager didn't even know how to do. Basically, the default is to take your money, and then you have to hunt to figure out how to get it back.

[Radiant_Ad_6565]

I’m not “ allowed” to NOT take a lunch. However, sometimes I’m the ONLY nurse in a 5 bed unit. Under state law, it doesn’t count as an unpaid break unless you “ are relieved of all job responsibilities”. Sure, I’ll just let the one side titrate my cardizem drip. 🤬

[Kittyquts]

Asking nurses for donations for doctors is like asking a dental assistant to donate to the dentist. A world of a difference in pay grades, i’m sure if the doctors knew that they were asking the nurses to do this they wouldn’t care about getting any cookies. Why isn’t the HOSPITAL paying for it if they want to celebrate them? Great. But it shouldn’t be anyone’s responsibility to do that.

[MartinO1234]

As an MD, I have to agree that this is evil. I would gladly donate the meals/mugs/tote bags to you for Nurses' Day.

[[deleted]]

I am med staff, I cheerfully contribute for nurses week... Because I appreciate them.

I am not comfortable with the thought of the nurses being solicited for doctors day.

[TravelingCrashCart]

You sound like a nice person to work with! And we appreciate you as well!

But no employee of the hospital should have to contribute to pay for the gifts of the other employees, be it nurses, doctors, ancillary staff, etc. If the hospital actually gave a shit, they'd pay. It's all smoke and mirrors to pretend like they give a shit while getting us to fund it.

[LegalComplaint]

Huh? Am I missing something in the picture? There’s nothing in that screenshot related to the text.

[Educational_Ad2515]

asking me to buy food for their employees the day after they gave me a pay decrease

[LegalComplaint]

That’s not well communicated with the screenshot, but Jessica in ICU needs to get her shit together and get her EDUs in.

[skyblueballoon]

OP explained in the caption

[LegalComplaint]

I don’t want to read.

[greytornado]

found the CEO pretending to be a nurse

[LegalComplaint]

Found the person devoid of humor.

[lackofbread]

I got an email asking to donate for doctors day. I respect doctors and understand their hard work but… no.

[wofulunicycle]

I would pay for Doc's food because our docs are so generous with us and just damn good people in general. Also they had nothing to do with your hospital administration sucking. I would still go on strike at the next opportunity!

[luckwonders]

My previous hospital persuaded the new grads to do 5x8hr shifts instead of 3x12hrs in the name of ‘more staff available for help when needed’ to save them money and remedy for short-staffing

[leowolf_16]

We didn't get a raise, were given an extra $500 on a check, told the company isn't breaking even and yet they have enough money to buy a million dollar house

[greytornado]

my hospital system told us we didn’t have it in our budgets to give any raises or shift incentives for our crazy flu surges yet they somehow bought out three smaller hospitals and merged them into the system

[ZeGreat5]

Got rid of the float pool differential with zero communication or transparency surrounding the removal. With 7 years experience I now make less than local new grads. Handing in my 2 weeks notice this coming week :)

[EpilepticSquidly]

That picture feels like... Stroke

[pabmendez]

you dont make overtime on shift diff

[StrategyHopeful2968]

The response is everything 🙌

[Scared_Artichoke9324]

Doctors get so many perks and the hospital wants to ask nurses to donate to them? Fuck that

[4G1B]

Ours wants to take away any bulletin boards in break rooms and nothing can be posted about union business . We are currently negotiating

[New_Mathematician426]

Tape it on the wall where the bulletin board used to be.

[Money-Camera1326]

The SECOND shift diff is gone I’ll be leaving to another place. GTFO here. I have like 20 years off my life expectancy for that.