Does your supervisor call & text you at all hours?

[CrazyGoonRN]

I am getting tired of my supervisor calling and texting me from a personal cell phone to ask me if I will work. It even happens during the night. I used to answer or reply back everytime but I am just so tired of it sometimes I just don't respond. I feel bad not responding.

Have you had this happen to you?

Do you always respond?

Thanks for your reply.

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

I'll remember this when I (hopefully) get a job as a nurse next year. I have a Google Voice number that rings a line at my house but also lets certain numbers ring through to my cell. It also has an option for "quiet time" when it only takes voice mail. I'm thinking that will be the only number they get for me. :)

Work only has my Google voice number for this reason. I have to be careful not to call from other numbers by accident because one secretary actually copied my cell phone number off the caller ID.

[RNnbakes]

You can actually block your supervisor's cell number.

[DizzyLizzyNurse]

Please reconsider that horrible font color. There's a lot of old folk here that agree with me.

Same with this young person. Had to highlight it to be able to read it.

[PediLove2147, BSN, RN]

If my work is calling me it is because they are cancelling me. I have seen times where we need a nurse but usually I am already working or they grab someone from the float pool. I do have my work set to a different ring tone just in case though.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

When I worked in the hospital I got called EVERY DAY. Sometimes multiple times in one day. My floor even invested in this stupid robot technology to call people (too poor to give anyone a raise but somehow can afford to buy this program) and leave them annoying automated messages. The robot calls came from a separate number and I very quickly blocked that number after I got called at 12:00 noon on a Thursday when I had worked Wednesday night and was already scheduled to work Thursday night with an automated message looking for someone to work Thursday night. Are you f*ing kidding me? You just woke me up 2 hrs after I finally fell asleep to ask me if I could work a shift that I'm already working? And not only did you wake me up, but now I know I'm in for another awful night since you just informed me that there were 2 sick calls. I wouldn't be surprised if people were calling out after getting these calls because they didn't want to face the horrible shift they knew they'd have.

I am VERY glad that I no longer work in the hospital.

[GadgetRN71, ASN, RN]

If I'm on call, I answer it. If I'm not on call, hell no!!

[Scarlette Wings]

I used to when I was younger and thought I had this insane urge to please everybody and that patients would suffer if I didn't go to work. I also didn't want the supervisor to dislike me. Was I stupid! They used me as long as I allowed it and when I left that hospital never missed a beat and did just fine without me.

I am over that 26 year later and I refuse to answer the phone unless I am on call and agreed to that ahead of time. The answer would be a very sharp H*^ no, and I mean no. I have a life and I missed so much of my children's lives when they were growing up because I had the delusion the hospital could not do without me.

[sharpeimom]

ok! ok! ok! 'tis back to the blue. i count myself among the "older folk" here! i graduated from college 41 years ago...

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

ok! ok! ok! 'tis back to the blue. i count myself among the "older folk" here! i graduated from college 41 years ago...

so, you couldn't see your own posts? :)

[sharpeimom]

nope, i could read them just fine, but my husband read over my shoulder and agreed with you that they were almost impossible to read.

you poor older folks...:uhoh21:

now i guess i should probably 'fess up... my husband is not quite two years older than i am!:rotfl:

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

I'm not old, just broken in.

[sharpeimom]

but not "rode hard":d