Well, I want to say first that I fully understand that hospitals expect you to be at work no matter what the weather.
I always go. I go for other people. That's why I have a four wheel drive. However, sometimes there is bad timing. Such as major snow that falls heavily and rapidly.
I got up, took a shower, got in the car to go to work. I swept it off the night before, got gas the night before, washed my uniform and had it pressed in case the power went out.
I warmed up the car, went off my driveway...moved about 15 feet and it slid into the yard.
The vehicle would not move.
So for the first time in years...I don't call in sick but maybe once a year. Never for weather.
I have PTO right? Lots of it because I never call in.
Get this...hospital is not allowing me to use my PTO for that day.
Freaking ridiculous. So if anyone else makes an attempt and wrecks. Call the news right after the tow truck. The general public should know that hospitals don't care about the safety of their employees. So this crappie about the fact they do? They can stick it as far as I'm concerned.
I would like to take a moment here to thank everyone for all the nasty comments and wish you all well in your future endeavors.
Yes I am totally with you. Most of the comments are nasty, rude and crude. I am so glad to see your post and I am out of here. I just wonder why the administrators keep allowing the same rude, crude posters to continue.
Denying PTO because the OP can't get to work in the snow is punitive. I might add I find it childish and mean spirited too.
How would any of us like it if our employer decided when and how they'd pay our PTO requests?
If the OP is given PTO with every other absence, then the weather shouldn't be an exception.
The boss can write you up, lay you off, or give you points, but denying you what's yours isn't right.
News flash. Hospitals DON'T care about the safety of it's employees. We are worker bees, and our only value is how much work can be extracted from us on any given day.
Here's another news flash......There is NO law requiring employers to give you PTO in the first place. If they do give PTO they may not discriminate in its disbursement due to race, religion, gender, etc... So they aren't "denying you what is yours." WOW! Entitlement attitudes seem to be rampant in nursing today......I don't understand it. It's not like they are mandating you to put something potentially dangerous inside your body like a flu shot. Entitled attitudes might change if their house caught on fire without any firefighters available. Or, someone broke in and assaulted them without any policemen available. 911 what is your emergency? Sorry, no one is available today.....it's snowing. Ridiculous!
I would like to take a moment here to thank everyone for all the nasty comments and wish you all well in your future endeavors.
No one is being nasty.....I think you were just expecting everyone to agree with you......AND as you can read, they don't. No nastiness implied (rolled eyes) but if you don't want a job where the life and death of your patients are dependent on you being at work then go find an administrative nursing job. There are plenty out there. Medicaid or some type of insurance. Or, some home health jobs might be a good fit for you. But you can't have it both ways. You can't be a lifesaver and a loafer at the same time.
I get that your angry but let it go. You can't change things now. You didn't go to work, you don't get PTO, but you had a day at home where you were safe in warm in your house. I'm sure there were others at your hospital that are in the same situation you are in. Suck it up and move on.
@ springchick,
I almost thought your post was one of understanding until I read the last sentence. Do you advise your patients to suck it up as well? Ha!
It never ceases to amaze me at how 'compassioNot' nightingales have become.
So you are this filled with rage because of what ONE anonymous human being wrote about you on the internet? Why give away your power and serenity so easily?
Since you don't want to pursue this with your hospital, what do you gain personally by continuing to stay so angry about it? Lashing out at others doesn't change anything, it just keeps you upset.
But maybe you like feeling upset, I don't know.
Are there others where you work with similar feelings about this? Seems like there would be power with numbers.
You all are missing the point here. We have all felt jilted by hospital mgnt. If anything, this post wasn't for anyone to gang up against a fellow nightingale but to allow venting of what was felt as a slight from management.
Obvious this person has no clue and doesn't work in health care, it is blatantly illegal to make someone work 24 hrs in a row. In CA, one cannot be made to work more than 12. Every state I have worked in as a traveler, 16 hrs max can one work. Even then the last 4 is mostly "volunteer" I am not talking about staying over until someone gets in from the ditch..... a manager, a float pool or number other people will cover the load, and I have even had the national guard to take folks home and deliver them to the hospitals and nursing homes at shift change. NO ONE works 24 hrs at least not if they care about their license
Well I think it is time to hang up the stethoscope and kick off the nursing shoes. I sure hope I won't be working into my eighties as this person must be close to being an octagenarian. Good on him/her if he/she can work that long though. They did say something about being born before 1970 in their post, not having graduated from nursing school that year. He/she must have been born in the forties or thirties. Wow, they must have seen and experienced a lot in that time span.
It used to be common (standard) for people to go to a 3-yr hospital diploma school fresh out of high school, and many people were licensed RNs at the age of 21 or 22. That poster would hardly have to be "born in the forties or thirties." S/he might not even be 65 yet. I went to nursing school at 25 in the early 1980s, and was considered "old" by the school's standards.
It used to be common (standard) for people to go to a 3-yr hospital diploma school fresh out of high school, and many people were licensed RNs at the age of 21 or 22. That poster would hardly have to be "born in the forties or thirties." S/he might not even be 65 yet. I went to nursing school at 25 in the early 1980s, and was considered "old" by the school's standards.
A person born in 1950 would be only 20 years old in 1970. They would be 18 in 1968. 18 plus 3 equals 21. They would be 21 in 1971. So if they graduated in 1970 they would be only 19. Hence they must have been born in the 1940s or earlier. Hence they must be 67 or older. A 65-year-old would be born in 1951 and would have been 19 in 1970, not old enough to have completed a 3 year program by 1970. It is really nice that this person is able to work so long and would be fascinating to hear about their varied experience and all the changes they have seen over the years. Oh unless they are an LPN. Then it might have been a 6 month program, in which case the person could have been born in 1950 and may be a young and sprightly 65-year-old, but still a senior nonetheless, and worthy of our praise for such a long and glorious career. Reminds me of the words of the British national anthem -- long may she reign over us, God save the queen.
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