They Think I'm Working Christmas??

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Ok so where I work they apparently don't tell the staff what they're working Christmas because they don't want to hear the moaning...(?). Well that has annoyed me already, but I had calmed down because I'm already working Sunday from 7pm-7am....so thats Christmas YES??

Well I go into work last night and there is the schedule. I'm working Sat and Sun 12 hrs ending Monday am and they have me down for going back for 3-11pm???? WTH??

Now I'm really worked up. Annoyed. Pissed off..you name it.

I ask the staffing coordinator and she says some nonsence about Sunday night not counting and she had to put me on Monday also..maybe I could switch with someone "LMAO".

Now mind you, I've asked all my kids and their families to dinner on Monday. I figured I'd go home, put the turkey in and nap. I'd be fine yea? Well NOT IF I have to go back to work.

I am not cancelling Christmas.

I left a note under the staffing coordinators door stating that because I cannot come back on Monday without any real sleep AND they failed to let us know so we could schedule our LIVES I was not working monday. Thank you very much...

As expected my phone just rang. DON.."Joanne give me a call so we can talk about the schedule." I didn't answer it!!!! I know I'll have to call back..eventually, but shes going to say "Work or be fired."

Thats the way its done there.

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Without nurses my employer wouldn't have a hospital.

I think I like you......... :Santa1:

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Specializes in Palliative Care, NICU/NNP.
I think people whine entirely too much... if its your regularly scheduled hours you work... it'd be another scenario if it was forced overtime or something, call me crazy but without your employer you wouldnt have a home to go to and have family over for christmas... so missing out one year to give back to your employer and even more importantly your patients shouldnt be reason to cry.. and as far a finding out three days in advance we also get our schedules about 5 days before the next schedule is up due ot the fact that in the past people whined so much i think its a good thing... less whining means less of a headache for me

Total disagreement. Why are you whining about people that whine too much? Just because you get your schedule five days ahead doesn't make it civilized.

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Specializes in PICU, surgical post-op.
Nope no union. And I clock out when I'm done in the am..usually more like 8am lol.

I should probably hate my union for the fact that I had to stand out on the sidewalk for a month in monsoon season this summer, but I have to say I'm more pro-union than ever. We fought for respect, and we got it ... better health coverage and the rat president of our hospital was just kicked out. I would never work without a union.

Not that that helps your current situation at all ... *sigh* If I wasn't working 4 days straight up through Christmas, I'd offer to come on over and help out! =) (Unless you work with old people, because, lets be honest - they kind of scare me!)

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

I would quite happily agree to work Christmas if my workplace would agree to pay me triple time for coming in to labor on the holiday. :)

Otherwise, count me out!

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

i just found out this afternoon (december 22) that i'm working christmas. i'm thrilled! dh is working, and i didn't want to sit home alone! (of course, my situation is much different.)

i can see why the op is upset -- that's fracked up on so many levels. inadequate notice, inadequate rest between shifts!

but i couldn't resist sharing my good news.

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Specializes in LTC, Home Care, Medical Offices, Plasma.

hey yall,

my last real nursing job was ltc, our staffing person put up a sheet before the end of october, for us to bid for our holiday shifts. we also knew before thanksgiving what our holidays were for that season. no one grumbled... and we all had a chance to plan.

stace

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Specializes in med-surg,sa,breast & cervical ca.

That is just unacceptable. It's not enough time to rest between shifts and more than anything I find it insulting that they would expect you to do this last minute. Why doesn't your DON cover the shift if they are in such a bind?

I have no problem working holidays given proper notice & proper $$, however our schedules are up 1-2 months in advance at all times, not just holidays. I did have similar experiences when I worked in LTC, but my current motto is "have license, will travel". They need you more than you need them..

Hope you stay home & have a wonderful holiday with your family.

-Ms.P

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I think people whine entirely too much... if its your regularly scheduled hours you work... it'd be another scenario if it was forced overtime or something, call me crazy but without your employer you wouldnt have a home to go to and have family over for christmas... so missing out one year to give back to your employer and even more importantly your patients shouldnt be reason to cry.. and as far a finding out three days in advance we also get our schedules about 5 days before the next schedule is up due ot the fact that in the past people whined so much i think its a good thing... less whining means less of a headache for me

You must be in management! :trout:

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Specializes in Peds Cardiology,Peds Neuro,Pedi ER,PICU, IV Jedi.

Just tell them you won't be there...that's not enough rest, besides the fact that whomever did the schedule was a total and complete idiot.

What stinks about the whole thing is that we work in a business that is 24/7/365, and it has to be covered...it just sucks that some of us end up on the short end of the stick when it comes to holidays.

I'm so sorry this has happened to you.

And to that completely insensitive person who thought you whined too much...we'll be sure you're on the schedule for every major holiday from now until 2009...perhaps by then you'll figure out why exactly it's important to others.:nono: :nono: :nono:

I hope it all works out.

vamedic4

workin' the 25th

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

Wow am I lucky. They post the prior year's schedule===who worked what holiday. And THEN they ask for volunteers to sign up for the holidays. If you don't sign up, they pen you in for a holiday you did not work the prior year. We also have the option to split shifts, which dayshift often does. That way, people are only working 7 hours on a given holiday, if they so choose.

Most of the time the slots fill up pretty quickly and early-on, like in early November. It's helpful seeing the last year's schedule too, cause we know whose turn it is to do what.

Works for me, nobody whines either. It's very civilized and fair.

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Specializes in Utilization Management.

I'd tell them to take me off the schedule Monday or not see me Saturday or Sunday, because I'd quit right then and there, effective immediately.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.
I admire a good work ethic but you give your employer way too much credit. The relationship between an employer and employee is a business relationship: You give them labor and they pay you in return. You owe them nothing more than that and you certainly do not have to "give back" to them at holiday time. And giving them credit for having a home to go to is just wild. They don't own you and they do not have the right to hold you up until 3 (or 5) days before the schedule comes out while they decide when they can use you.

oh so right.

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