CI/Staff Gifts -- Venting

[firstyearstudent]

I am getting nickeled and dimed to death. This semester we have three separate clinical rotations. It always seems to be $10 for the CI gift/gift card, then another $5 to $10 for treats (donuts, cookies, etc.) for the staff. This semester I'll be lucky if I get by with $45. Let me be clear, I appreciate what these folks do, but I'm in school and my family is strapped. I'm not cheap, just broke. Sometimes I skip lunch because I don't have $3.50 to spend at the cafeteria.

I'd prefer just to give a token gift and a heartfelt note and photo of the group. Some of the CIs are very aware of our limited finances and actually beg us not to get a pricey gift, but at the end of rotation, here I am coughing up another $15...

[s.carter]

:angryfire I generally do not get involved in bickering and back and forth on this site, but this is one of the rudest things I have seen posted.

You have obviously never gone hungry or gone without. I have nothing but disdain for you and can't believe that you would post this to someone on this site. Grow up.

I am absolutely serious, I would be glad to help someone who desires to get a gift for their CI and does not have the means to do so. How is offering to help someone rude? not that I need to prove my poverty, but my car is about to get repossed and I still have not paid for the Med-Surge class I just passed. so now I have to decide if I want the credit for the class or if I really need the car to get to class. I dont have a mortgage to worry about, we allready sold the house in an effort to lower the bills. its hard for us because me and my wife are both in the program and I cant work more than 40 hrs a week and study enough.

be careful with disdain, it is not a good quaity.