Bait and switch!!

Lord knows I don't like to field my own complaints too often, I think it makes me sound pithier to just help everybody else out with theirs

Yesterday I was scheduled to work 3-11 but they called me the day before and asked me if I could work a one-on-one from 7-3.

Well that's just oodles of cash by my standards, and usually you end up 'beating the house' if you take your chances with working 1:1's because typically the person's in bed and confused, and frankly you only have to get off your duff if what they've tried (physial/chemical restraints/pain mgmt) isn't working. I like most of the staffing people, and I like the ideals behind my job and the hospital, and I love america, etc, etc, so I went in.

I sat down in the room for 10 minutes when a surgical tech comes in and says "they wanna see you up front." Management called and sent him in in my place, and put me out on the floor. Thank god the nice staffing lady came in at 8, and said I could go home at 3. She was mortified that mgmt switched me over, and was very apologetic. Thing is, staffing takes EVERY opportunity to tell us that they constantly need aides to come in and sit 1:1's.

I thought about walking off, not without telling people of course.. but I've been thinking it over, and while I realize some flexibility is necessary, when is shuffling people around too much?