Complain more please! It is just an hour!

[Tait]

I am currently so over listening to a few people at work complain incessantly about the one extra hour we have to work tonight.

Bleech.

Tait

[eriksoln, BSN, RN]

:DBeing that I only work 8 hr shifts, it didn't bother me. Not like it did the 12 hour people.

Had I been working a 12, I would have been guilty myself.

[eriksoln, BSN, RN]

Whine about working an extra hour? What about trying to complete 8 hours of night shift work in 7 hours in the spring?

Yeah, I like this less..........much less. I had the easiest night I've had in a long time last night.

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

I must be nuts. I appreciated the extra hour because I actually felt caught up BEFORE my shift was over.

[HM2VikingRN, RN]

WE DON'T GET PAID FOR IT! Management says, "What goes around comes around and over the years it evens out..." It sucks!

Report this to your state wage/hour division. I have never worked anywhere that did not pay for this time. (Most places I have worked required us to take an hour of vacation in the spring to cover "spring ahead")

We are paid for fall back.....

[caliotter3]

They always say that it all comes out in the wash next year. But I have never seen that happen with me. And I've never been paid the extra hour. What irks me is the oncoming shift using an excuse to come to work an hour late. We all have the ability to reset our alarm clocks, it is not an impossible task.

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

*whine*

[mamamerlee, LPN]

I can't imagine a state labor board agreeing with the idea that hourly workers do not get paid for all of their hours. And most places will pay you for 8 in the spring as a good-will gesture. Employees should not be penalized on either side of this coin.

[Woodenpug, BSN]

It's a silly tradition; both the whining and the time change.

[DolceVita, ADN, BSN, RN]

WE DON'T GET PAID FOR IT! Management says, "What goes around comes around and over the years it evens out..." It sucks!

That is just un-Canadian!

[catshowlady]

They always say that it all comes out in the wash next year. But I have never seen that happen with me. And I've never been paid the extra hour. What irks me is the oncoming shift using an excuse to come to work an hour late. We all have the ability to reset our alarm clocks, it is not an impossible task.

I think I would be sorely tempted to call those with a history of arriving late at 2 am to remind them to reset the clock. You'd just be trying to help them out, right?

:paw:

[nursemike, ASN, RN]

I always work weekend nights, so I get both the spring forward/fall back. (We get paid for the actual hours worked, by the way). Last night, though, we were short from 3-7 and overstaffed from 7p-7a. So they asked me to come in 3-11, and I missed the evil hour.

My first year as a nurse, though, I was in stepdown with a pt with a lumbar drain, drain 20ml Q2H. Worried myself sick for the first couple of hours--do I switch to odds when the time changes? But I was busy as all get-out, and when 0200 came (the first time) I was late (30-40 minutes) getting to my drain, so I got an extra chance. Of course, I later learned that drains don't have to be on the even hour. I could perfectly well have gone midnight, 0200 DST, 0300EST, O500EST, and so on. But I also learned that the world doesn't end if you're an hour late, so I'd probably stay on the evens if it happens again. The rare times we have one on odds, they usually end up on evens because someone forgets.

It's one of many things, I've learned, that nursing tends to be meticulous about, while neurosurgery (and most other services) are happy if you're anywhere in the neighborhood.

ETA: My actual plan, I now recall, had been to drain 10ml at 0200DST, and 10 more at 0200EST, but it didn't work out that way.

[nursemike, ASN, RN]

I think I would be sorely tempted to call those with a history of arriving late at 2 am to remind them to reset the clock. You'd just be trying to help them out, right?

:paw:

EXCELLENT!!!