Re: Cutting salaries, taking vacation time...are they free to do as they please? Originally Posted by cathlabnurse83 
Yeah I'm sure there are "unemployed people" who will take my job. I'm also sure that nobody is going to walk in off the streets and be able to do my job. If you train staff, then jack them around until they leave, you will never have people who are truly experts in the area. When I leave, an agency cath lab nurse will take my place and they will pay him/her twice the amount they paid me. Not very smart IMO. The economy is bad, but I don't see a problem finding a job. I can make as much as they want to pay me filling pill boxes for elderly people in their homes. I am not going to just sit there and let them decide what they are going to do to me next. That's a good way to get run over if you ask me.
I realize this option is less available in many parts of the country, but...
A few years ago the hospital where I had worked for many years got a new CEO with a very "bottom line" mentality. One of his more famous statements was that nurses and patients at our community had been spoiled and that we were all used to care that was "too good" and that times were tight and we were going to have to get used to mediocre care as the new norm. The repeated mantra was "times are changing, if you don't like it go somewhere else." Some did, but some of us had a different idea. We unionized instead. That CEO and the other senior managers he brought in are all long gone - likely wrecking other hospitals - and we're still here.
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