Does your supervisor call & text you at all hours?

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I am getting tired of my supervisor calling and texting me from a personal cell phone to ask me if I will work. It even happens during the night. I used to answer or reply back everytime but I am just so tired of it sometimes I just don't respond. I feel bad not responding.

Have you had this happen to you?

Do you always respond?

Thanks for your reply.

Specializes in Acute Mental Health.

I even get text messages from my old job asking for help and the carrot..."we're willing to pay $10 over your base". I know it's going to be bad there and am grateful I left.

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Specializes in LTC.

I had one supervisor that if she didnt get you she would call and text REPEATEDLY over ten minute span and leave voicemails up to hte point of saying I know you're there call me back....when I wasn't there nor could I or WOULD I go in......it was 7 voicemails in 10 minutes the last time she did that.

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Specializes in Emergency & Trauma/Adult ICU.
I had one supervisor that if she didnt get you she would call and text REPEATEDLY over ten minute span and leave voicemails up to hte point of saying I know you're there call me back....when I wasn't there nor could I or WOULD I go in......it was 7 voicemails in 10 minutes the last time she did that.

That scenario ... would prompt a discussion with human resources or that supervisor's boss ... or both.

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"we're willing to pay $10 over your base". I know it's going to be bad there and am grateful I left.
The lure of extra money doesn't work with me.My free time is sheer gold!
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Specializes in LTC.
That scenario ... would prompt a discussion with human resources or that supervisor's boss ... or both.

If I'd had the cajones to do it I should have.....that's just plain harrasment...esp when it was just because shedidnt wanna go in and do it herself....then she ended up getting coverage for it and didnt tell me so I went in anywya.....I dont work there anymore

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Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.

[color=#a9a9a9]we have a landline and my husband and i each have cellphones using our landline's company. when i worked, i also had a cheapo dollar store-type cell that cost $10 per month for a prepaid card and the phone cost about $20.

that was the only number work ever had for me. when that one rang, i automatically knew who was calling and could answer it or not.

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If you let them call you all of the time, you will go crazy.

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I was so happy when caller ID came out.

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Specializes in School Nursing.

I am sympathetic, but I also know how hard it is to be a supervisor, and have to try to get someone to work......Many times having to go in myself and work way too many hours. I am so glad to not be at the top ANYMORE. It is an unpopular place to be!

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Specializes in ICU.

Our supervisors come over to the unit when they have to make their calls. She is busy as it is, and when she has to sit there for an hour or more calling everybody under the sun trying to cover shifts it is a pain. It's painful to watch them have to go through that. So I always answer my calls if I am awake (I turn my ringer off when I am asleep). I just tell them no if I don't want to work.

I don't do the texting thing. I guess I am old fashioned. That seems unprofessional to me. Also, if you don't want to be bothered, give them a landline, then if you go out on your day off, you won't be home to deal with the call.

I see people who refuse to turn off their phones at work. I will see them texting and taking calls at 2, 3 or 4 in the morning. Their phone never leaves their side. They would never leave the house without it. And yet, when work calls it always goes to voicemail. I think that's a pretty big tip off you are screening your calls. When you make it clear to everyone at work that you cannot be "out of touch" with your friends for your shift at work, they probably think that means you are always available to be reached at all hours of the day and night.

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I have not read all post, so I am sorry if anyone has hit on this, but the way I look at it, and have advised others to look at it (INCLUDING pts I have had that were going crazy with family calling thier cell phone) is this.

I have a cell phone for MY convinence. No one else's. It is is so *I* can make/return calls when *I* want. So I can be available to take calls when *I* want. Period, end of story. No guilt. It is your convineince, not to be a leash for work or anyone else to always be able to get ahold of you (now kids with cell phones is a little different)

If my son is somewhere and may need to call me, I have it on loud. If I am expecting a call I have it on loud. Otherwise, who knows what it is set on. May have it on silent or even airplane mode all day. If i only had a land line like i did when I was first on my own, I wouldn't have a phone on me when I went out, when I was at the store, out to dinner, at my parents. I would get a message when I got home, and return it if it wasn't too late to. Why not treat a cell phone the same. Yes do not be rude, do return a call, but you do not have to always be available to answer just because it is on you.

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Specializes in Peds Medical Floor.

When working nights full time and going to school full time, my phone was always set on mute. Now, unless I'm specifically waiting for a call, it's still on mute. At my old job I had a piece of paper written in LARGE CAPITAL LETTERS do not call between *this time* and *this time*. I reported the supervisor who continued to call me at those times to HR and it wasn't a problem afterwards.

I pick up time if I feel like it and when I feel like it. I owe my job my 40 hours a week AND THAT IS ALL.

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