Anyone else Salaried here?

Yes, our case managers are salaried. I've learned to be bendable. There have been days when I've left home at 9am and been home before noon. Those are beautiful days. There have been some downright ugly ones too.

If you're not getting any of the perks and all of the disadvantages, maybe greener pastures are in order?

Yes, our case managers are salaried. I've learned to be bendable. There have been days when I've left home at 9am and been home before noon. Those are beautiful days. There have been some downright ugly ones too.

If you're not getting any of the perks and all of the disadvantages, maybe greener pastures are in order?

I took a beautiful day today, there was a "mandatory meeting" at 8:30, I was there at 8:15, by 8:45 no one else had showed, so I called my administrator and went to my first appointment. I got a call from the secretary at 9am saying "we are ready for the meeting now," I told her I was halfway to my first visit-I wouldn't be there. Last monday, I was out a total of 16.75 hours (7 visits, and one pronouncement of death), I decided today I wouldn't have another one of those days, so I went and did my 4 visits--this morning when I called my boss I told her I would do my visits, then go home because I wasn't having another day like last monday. at 3pm, she beeps me and tells me she wants to "talk with me." I called in, she said "we need to meet tomorrow to make sure we are on the same page with your hours---she says I only worked 42 hours last week, so I shouldn't have a full day off.....

I'm bringing a list of the last 4 weeks with pay stubs to prove hours worked...

I'm about ready to just go back to the hospital. I made a few dollars less, but the on call at this place is killing me-10 shifts a month (we only have 3 nurses and I"m the only full time person.

thank you for your input. I like the greener pastures. sometimes I just need someone to confirm what I already believe. (that is how it gets when I'm overly tired).

linda

I appreciate the flexibility that comes with most salaried positions and wouldn't want to give that up. I put up with the disadvantages so that I can enjoy the advantages -- and I make sure that I don't work so many hours that it's unreasonable. I've become very good at documenting my work so that there is no question that I have earned my pay within a time frame of 40 - 45 hours per week.

I probably wouldn't have such a hard time with it if my administrator put in more hours also. She writes on her time sheet 8:30-5p, but she is never there before 9 and i've never seen her stay until 5.

Thank you for your input. I really don't mind the 40-45 range, but there have been weeks when I"ve ran in the 50-54h range (when our census was higher), but that was in march and april...

---she says I only worked 42 hours last week, so I shouldn't have a full day off.....

linda

I was salaried for almost 17 years. It's easy for managers to fall into thre mindset that if you work 40 that's ok.

Regarding comptime for the hours over: federal law doesn't require that an employer grant any "take-back time" when over 40 hours, so you need to google your state employment laws to see if it's a provsion. Otherwise, it's at either the employers discretion, or bound by their HR policies.

On the other hand, if you work less than a full day, you should still be entitled to a full days pay.

I'm salaried but I am not a case manager. You will rarely see me come in before 8:30 but I am often there until 6p and usually don't take much more than 15 or 20 minutes for lunch, unless its a business lunch. I get calls from staff sometimes in the evening or morning and I take administrative call rotation. I read the on call report from home and sometimes write emails while still in my bunny slippers in the morning and will often spend an hour or more of my "day off" dealing with issues at work via cell phone or computer as well. While sometimes this doesn't amount to much, sometimes it takes up a significant portion of my weekend or evening. We are allowed to "take back" our overtime, but it almost never happens. Being salaried is a different mindset. Its pay for whatever the job takes, not for the hours you are compensated for. Its up to each of us to set our limits on what we can do and still maintain a balance in our lives.

Its up to each of us to set our limits on what we can do and still maintain a balance in our lives.

Unfortunately, I am not good at setting limits. I feel the weight of this position crushing me to the point I can't take a deep breath. There is no one to back me up (last monday I worked 16.75 hours and my manager wouldn't even go check on one of my patients for me--as I couldn't be two places at once). I not only am expected to see all the patients, but when the secretary needs to go to lunch, they expect me to rush back to work to cover her. There is a salaried social worker, but she is assertive and works only 40 hours a week. On top of that, call for 10 nights a month in addition to the patient visits, and deaths, it's consuming me.

I don't have balance to the point i'm physically ill.

Saying "No" and regulating your time are learnable skills.

I'm the only full time nurse there, except for the administrator and social worker, and they are rarely in the office.

Saying "no" is what I need to learn.

Thank you for your input. I just have to make it 7 more days, then I'm on vacation for 10 days...that will help me regroup.

linda

There is definitely a give and take to salaried positions. It works for me because I work with a great team. I think that makes all the difference. We allow each other down time and just do what needs to be done to pick up the slack. I try to take solace on my really busy days by remembering that we do good and honorable work.

I've noticed in the majority your threads that you have never felt good about where you're at. That says it all.

Hi,

I have to chime in I have had two different salaried positions and each of them expected the same you do what they want when they want. I have noticed at my place of work certain people don't have to take on extra and others are expected too. It is out of hand. We now have new management and it is getting worse the new team talks to us as if we are not human. They send offensive text messages and I have spoke to other nurses who are just as upset as I am. At one time this was a decent place to work but it has gone down the tubes. The new sup seems to think that we enjoy running 40-50miles out of our way to go into another nurse's territory that is refusing to do an admission. Needless to say I have cut back to PT I plan to teach in the fall and I do plan to quit entirely at some point. I am basically just staying on the books until I finish my practicum for my MSN. But in reading the posts I don't think salaried positions are for everyone there were good days where I worked in the past which made up for the long stressful days. But lately the long days with extra work have become a commonality and it's burning nurses left and right.