In all my years of working in healthcare (almost 40), I have never seen anything more insulting and pathetic. I hope Kaiser gets publicly flogged for this.
This year, we were pressured into paying to make gift baskets that we then had to buy tickets for in order for a chance at winning. Activities were scheduled during the week at times that nurses could not attend. So we paid $40 as our Nurse's Week gift.
And I personally got a concussion from a patient punching me in the head just before Nurses Week.
This year, we were pressured into paying to make gift baskets that we then had to buy tickets for in order for a chance at winning. Activities were scheduled during the week at times that nurses could not attend. So we paid $40 as our Nurse's Week gift.
And I personally got a concussion from a patient punching me in the head just before Nurses Week.
How sucky! I'd bet the head honchos were just hi-fiving themselves re such an inexpensive promo!
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after years of giving these out (and begging for them back) my employer determined they were “taxable” so they started taking the applicable tax out of our pay!
My husband is a retired CPA and said there is a maximum for tax free company gifts before taxes are required.. He said it used to be $25 and is now $50.
How sucky! I'd bet the head honchos were just hi-fiving themselves re such an inexpensive promo!
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Thanks for the heads up. I signed up with my gmail account and didn’t notice my name.
This year, we were pressured into paying to make gift baskets that we then had to buy tickets for in order for a chance at winning. Activities were scheduled during the week at times that nurses could not attend. So we paid $40 as our Nurse's Week gift.
On 5/15/2021 at 7:36 PM, Wuzzie said:
Same at my hospital but get this...after years of giving these out (and begging for them back) my employer determined they were “taxable” so they started taking the applicable tax out of our pay! So now even if you donate them you also have to pay the taxes. WTH?! ??
Some of the reported gifts in this thread...they're bad, but somewhere in the recesses of my brain I can understand how someone thought they were cute or in some way positive.
But these ^ two??? These are just shameful. I shouldn't be surprised any more but I still can't imagine anyone feeling anything other than shame and embarrassment at the idea of giving "gifts" like these.
I wouldn't be able to be guilted into participating in purchasing junk for a raffle nor in donating my gift back so that the company can get some kind of tax deduction for "their" donation.
Specializes in Community Health, Med/Surg, ICU Stepdown.
I looked at all the posts on Nurse Blake and NurseLifeRN on instagram showing all the crazy gifts nurses got. Expired food, rocks, sock puppets, a button and thread (because we tie everything together), glue (because nurses are the glue of the hospital), a weird little doll called a Little Fit made out of yarn to throw when you're mad (throwing a little fit, get it?), NASTY looking hot dogs, insulting emails, and so much more.... =/
Specializes in Physiology, CM, consulting, nsg edu, LNC, COB.
And on another note, in my first job out of the hospital after 20 years in critical care, I was working for a company doing workers comp case management. I got a bonus my first month, a hundred dollar gift certificate to the big mall down the way. Went right over to the National Geographic store and got myself a beautiful piece of art glass, a globe of the earth. Still have it. Said to myself, "Beats a damn soap-on-a-rope."
This makes me laugh...there's a bowl in the breakroom full of our nurses week rocks in their own cute little pouches with some card or something attached. It's virtually sat there untouched for weeks. Almost completely full.
This makes me laugh...there's a bowl in the breakroom full of our nurses week rocks in their own cute little pouches with some card or something attached. It's virtually sat there untouched for weeks. Almost completely full.
Maybe if someone took them all they could gravel their walkway...?
On 5/17/2021 at 8:06 AM, Hawaiian Scrub Nurse said:
This year, we were pressured into paying to make gift baskets that we then had to buy tickets for in order for a chance at winning. Activities were scheduled during the week at times that nurses could not attend. So we paid $40 as our Nurse's Week gift.
And I personally got a concussion from a patient punching me in the head just before Nurses Week.
Hawaiian Scrub Nurse, RN
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This year, we were pressured into paying to make gift baskets that we then had to buy tickets for in order for a chance at winning. Activities were scheduled during the week at times that nurses could not attend. So we paid $40 as our Nurse's Week gift.
And I personally got a concussion from a patient punching me in the head just before Nurses Week.