Ok guys, So I was helping my friend look for NP jobs on various job websites. I decided to look on Craigslist for ads. I search my city (Houston) for their medical job ads. I see an ad calling for 50 bussers needed for a wedding event facility (The Bell Tower on 34th is the name of the event facility). So I think to myself "why would an advertisement for bussers be in the medical section?" and LO AND BEHOLD.... this is what the ad said:
A Perfect job for Nursing Students! If you think like a Nurse this job is a match.
Our Goal Is To Deliver Excellent Events No One Will Ever Forget!
We have many exciting and rewarding career opportunities for leaders who want to be a part of creating spectacular one of a kind events. If a commitment to excellence, uncompromising quality, and world class customer service is important to you, then come join our team!
Accepting Applications for
BUSSERS -- with possibilities for growth and advancement
^^^ Yep... you read that right. I had to reread the first sentence a couple of times.
FIRST OF ALL, why would ONLY nurses be targeted?? Why not just say a perfect job for students? SECONDLY, nurses actually save lives, our care matters (unlike what our CEOs might say lol). Why would our schooling and knowledge be seen as equal to the skill set of a job that requires no education?
Needless to say, I wrote them a nasty email. I wrote:
Hello, I was just reading your ad. I am a nurse and I was wondering how cleaning up event spaces equate to "thinking like a nurse". What do you mean, exactly? Nurses do more than cleaning up after people. We handle critical patients and actually save lives. We deal with life and death situations. So I really urge your company to stop demeaning an entire profession and calling on our students, in particular, to feel like a simple task such as bussing, is the same with the critical thinking skills needed to be a Nurse. I will no longer support your event facility and will be sure to alert every nurse (and nursing website) I come across about your ad, if it is not rectified.
Regretfully,
A LIFE SAVING RN
I urge you to not support this company and if you know anyone in the HOuston area, please tell them to not support this company, as they clearly have such a low view of us. Am I overreacting? Am I justified for feeling "some type of way" about it??
It's not just the OP. It seems like nowadays people are just looking for any opportunity to be OFFENDED. Pretty soon, the only acceptable subjects for discussion will be the weather.
Right now the pro snow and anti snow groups are arguing, though.
I would have some angst for the posters of this crap on Craigslist.
Some comments on here clearly come from people that never worked as bus boy/girl and never tended a bar. I did back in early 90-s in Europe. Started out as bus boy in the Irish Pub. My manager was an Irishman.
I remember to this day how he used to tell me to "go check the bathroom" every 15 minutes, mop the urine, feces and other bodily fluids off the floor and then come back and squeeze between tightly packed, belligerent and drunk patrons to change their ashtrays and collect empty beer glasses. We'd run out of beer glasses well before midnight and the worst thing was that the patrons would not let go of their glasses (and ashtrays for that matter) until all beer in them was gone. All the while they smoked cigars, peed and defecated on the bathrooms floors.
It was a brutal, non-stop ordeal. After two months of this nonsense I almost quit, but the day I was set to do so, the manager told me to go behind the bar to become a bartender trainee.
So, I am of opinion that I'd rather wipe a sober patient's ass than deal with drunk and belligerent ********, of which the latter does not require "thinking as a nurse" and has nothing to do with it.
I would have some angst for the posters of this crap on Craigslist.
Some comments on here clearly come from people that never worked as bus boy/girl and never tended a bar. I did back in early 90-s in Europe. Started out as bus boy in the Irish Pub. My manager was an Irishman.
I remember to this day how he used to tell me to "go check the bathroom" every 15 minutes, mop the urine, feces and other bodily fluids off the floor and then come back and squeeze between tightly packed, belligerent and drunk patrons to change their ashtrays and collect empty beer glasses. We'd run out of beer glasses well before midnight and the worst thing was that the patrons would not let go of their glasses (and ashtrays for that matter) until all beer in them was gone. All the while they smoked cigars, peed and defecated on the bathrooms floors.
It was a brutal, non-stop ordeal. After two months of this nonsense I almost quit, but the day I was set to do so, the manager told me to go behind the bar to become a bartender trainee.
So, I am of opinion that I'd rather wipe a sober patient's ass than deal with drunk and belligerent *******, of which the latter does not require "thinking as a nurse" and has nothing to do with it.
Meh. You could have quit at any time.
Not sure why the "Irishman"needs to be out out there.
Sometimes as nurses we wipe drunk, belligerent asses, too. All in a days work.
There is similar adds recruiting nurses for real estate in my area craigslist....
I don't find it offensive. It's just suggestive that most nurses have great people skills, organization and can multi task and those qualities compliment many different fields of employment.
It was exactly this. I went through and found one for education, engineering, and students in general.
As we suspected. So now we know. This was like a form letter with only the type of student differing, depending on which demographic they were targeting. Not picking on nursing students at all.
One more waitress story. My very first job at 16 was at McDonalds. After 2 years of fetching & carrying for customers, I made a vow to myself to never take a job as a waitress, no matter how dire the circumstances. Fast forward through years of stay-at-home mom, nursing school at age 35, graduation at 40. Very first job on a step-down trauma floor in a very busy regional trauma center. Making my way out of the Pyxis room/patient kitchen with a tray held high (literally a serving tray such as used in restaurants) full of sodas, ice, servings of Jell-O and oh yes, a couple of meds for the patient. I literally stopped in my tracks with the awesome/awful realization that I had indeed, just gone to school for 4 years in order to become...a WAITRESS!
I actually wasn't offended by it. It is for student nurses and they probably love student nurses because they are hard workers. Also, gotta say, doing this type of job is really very closely related; the busyness level is very similar. Obviously this company values nursing students over other students...who knows maybe the owner or manager was a nurse or has family that is nurses and wants to hire student nurses. It's kinda of a complement I think!
blondy2061h, MSN, RN
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Right now the pro snow and anti snow groups are arguing, though.