[nsmith_rn]

Recently I inquired about a full time position at a local hospital and I was turned down becasue I told her in the interview that I would not work mandatory overtime
Is this sick or what... talk about cutting off your own nose..
I do not understand.

[fiestynurse]

Good for you nsmith_rn! You certainly are better off knowing what kind of employer they would have been. All of us should be upfront about this issue when we are hired.

[NicuGal]

Isn't that discrimination?

[kjmta57]

In the state of calif we still have mandatory overtime unfortuntaly SB1027 has been watered down quite abit since it first was written and is now on hold

[nsmith_rn]

IT was about a year ago that I grew a spine.
I will not work mandatory ovetime
It is dangerous
and your right it is discrimination
against me becasue I have a life and do not want to work 50 hours a week

[nurse T]

Exactly! I just got fed up last week. I was on call and worked from 8am to 1130 pm, solid. I asked for help from my sup. about 4pm that day, all I got was " oh, you can do it." I tell ya what, I was so tired driving home, I could hardly see or drive a straight line. I let it be known that was the last time that I would do that. Sooo... dangerous. My sup's response was, " You're having family problems, Sometimes that carries over into your work." They'll just get some other nurse to do it if I quit. I don't care, I'm tired of being a weeny and being taken advantage of.

[nsmith_rn]

Nurse T your so right
If I hear " you can do it" one more time
I think that I am going to scream.
When I went to nursing school
I must have been absent the day that they said
we would be underapperciated, over worked, Under paid
and STRESSED out by the supervisors.
I am so glad I have this place to vent

[Jenny P]

Nurse T, your superviser said you're having family problems....? Hold on a minute! If you are like anybody else, the excessive hours of mandatory overtime can cause family problems! Your supervisor had no right to say that to you or anyone else! That was discriminatory and slanderous; and it has no bearing on your job.

[johnboy]

Our last union contract specified that there be no mandatory overtime except in case of extreme emergency, natural disaster, etc. It does give me supreme satisfaction to "just say no" to the supervisor. Too bad! I'm not their slave in the least. Perhaps if they hired some new nurses they wouldn't be in this predicament so often.

[nsmith_rn]

that is how they are treating us like
SLAVES
this is the 21 century and ( not to not include the men in our profession) But as a female dominated profession we as women are still being walked on.
Well I can say that my back is worn out.
It is time for the tred marks that mysupervisors have made to heal.