Pet Peeve

[BookwormRN]

Please bear with me, but I really need to say this! My pet peeve is when people say to me, "Oh, you got your RN degree." Or "So and so is going for their RN."

Hello, people! When you go to school, you earn a diploma (not so common anymore) or a degree (such as an ADN, BSN, MSN, etc). Becoming a Registered Nurse involves taking the NCLEX exam, passing and becoming licensed by the state. It is THEN that you BECOME a Registered Nurse.

Ok, thanks for letting me vent. DH teases me about this peeve all the time, but I can't help it. Just because someone earns their ADN does not mean that they have permission to practice as a Registered Nurse.

I feel much better now!

[queenjean]

Oh but the worst was our pinning invitations had the word "broach" for "brooch". I was so embarrassed. My classmates said "who cares, no one will notice". Well, my family noticed.

According to my dictionary, it is pronounced the same. I've never heard "brooch" pronounced without a long "o". How are you pronouncing it? Like book?

[psalm, RN]

Major pet peeve coming up here! Not really work related except that I am hearing it from coworkers:

Those women who say "Oh, I can't do that, or buy this because my husband won't let me spend the money!" Steam is rolling out of my ears and I will probably have to go down to ER to be treated for the stroke I'm going to suffer from the hypertension from trying to hold in the words that want to come out of my mouth! Someone hand me the duct tape fast!

These are not young naive women - these are mature, otherwise presumably intelligent working professionals - and they ALLOW someone to tell them what they can and cannot do with the money that they earn!

I'm convinced that feminism is well and truly dead now and am going off to join the dinosaurs.......

...well, maybe they are using that as an "excuse" to not buy or do something, it's an easy and acceptable out for that generation. Not all of the women of that generation are feminists or 100% feminist. They are the "young naive women" of their generation who chose and now choose what parts of feminism they want to accept...and they might not even call it feminism.

As Neil Young once sang, "Don't let it get you down-n-n..." I can see why it would be a pet peeve, though...

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

major pet peeve coming up here! not really work related except that i am hearing it from coworkers:

those women who say "oh, i can't do that, or buy this because my husband won't let me spend the money!" steam is rolling out of my ears and i will probably have to go down to er to be treated for the stroke i'm going to suffer from the hypertension from trying to hold in the words that want to come out of my mouth! someone hand me the duct tape fast!

these are not young naive women - these are mature, otherwise presumably intelligent working professionals - and they allow someone to tell them what they can and cannot do with the money that they earn!

i'm convinced that feminism is well and truly dead now and am going off to join the dinosaurs.......

perhaps what they *really* mean is "i can't do that because my husband and i have discussed how to spend our money, and that particular thing was so far down the list it isn't going to see the light of day until the kids are through college and the mortgage is paid." married people who have pooled their money and are respectful of one another do try to set priorities together, and sometimes it's just easier to say "my husband/wife would kill me" rather than explain the whole priority setting thing to someone who probably won't understand it anyway. i'm just guessing here . . . .

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

perhaps what they *really* mean is "i can't do that because my husband and i have discussed how to spend our money, and that particular thing was so far down the list it isn't going to see the light of day until the kids are through college and the mortgage is paid." married people who have pooled their money and are respectful of one another do try to set priorities together, and sometimes it's just easier to say "my husband/wife would kill me" rather than explain the whole priority setting thing to someone who probably won't understand it anyway. i'm just guessing here . . . .

how dare you come here making sense. the nerve.

[lpnstudentin2010, LPN]

my husband does that -- drives me up a wall. is it something about speaking spanish before english? or a n'awhlins accent?

luckilly i made it through that school year without murdering her. lol. just kidding.

[bagladyrn, RN]

perhaps what they *really* mean is "i can't do that because my husband and i have discussed how to spend our money, and that particular thing was so far down the list it isn't going to see the light of day until the kids are through college and the mortgage is paid." married people who have pooled their money and are respectful of one another do try to set priorities together, and sometimes it's just easier to say "my husband/wife would kill me" rather than explain the whole priority setting thing to someone who probably won't understand it anyway. i'm just guessing here . . . .

wish i could think it was that, but the conversation was about internet access (she, like me is a traveler here at the hospital) and i mentioned the wireless card i got. her actual words when i raised my eyebrows at the previous comment were : "my husband controls all the money". not "we discuss all expenses before spending".

yesterday i told my d-i-l that if i ever heard words like that out of her mouth i was going to slap my son! just one of those things that affects me like nails on a chalkboard!

if you think my reaction is strong you should have heard my mother recently when a neighbor of hers stated that she wasn't going to vote "since my husband died and he always told me who to vote for". i had to find an excuse to get her out of there fast as i could see her about to explode!

[psalm, RN]

Wow, bagladyrn, that type of control would send up red flags with me also!! That would be more than what I had suggested...and more than a pet peeve.

[mc3, ASN, RN]

"Sonimeters" It's centimeters.

That's my pet peeve.

It's like pronouncing Target like "tar-jhay".

Me too!!!!!

mc3:paw:

[Scooter321]

According to my dictionary, it is pronounced the same. I've never heard "brooch" pronounced without a long "o". How are you pronouncing it? Like book?

That was my first reaction too, queenjean, but then I figured that NatKat was talking about a printed invitation. The word was misspelled. (Why do I always wonder about how to spell "misspelled"?) :chuckle

[Seth_NZ]

Orientate.

Dilatate/dilatation.

Not. Words. I will never let you defeat me, semantic drift!!! Just because the dictionary people threw up their hands and made them okay doesn't mean they're right! ::shakes tiny fist at the sky::

about the word orientate....i find that weird myself as well. i'm in NZ and people use 'orientate' rather than orient. there are a lot of words alright, not just orientate, but oh well when in rome...