did your job give you a holiday gift??

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Specializes in ob/gyn med /surg.

we recieved $50.00 gift cards for walmart.. which surprised me because we got nothing last year...lol

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nothing

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Specializes in Nurse Scientist-Research.

I hear I've got a $20 gift card from Wal-Mart coming, but I haven't seen it yet. A couple of years ago, everyone who was on shift Christmas Eve got a $50 gift card from a philanthropic family that had an infant there.

Wait, how could I forget, sometime in December (I missed it this year), IF you are working the night they have it, the hospital provides a very nice (not sarcastic here for once) holiday dinner. It is also served to us by the upper management staff. I do appreciate them doing that since they have to come in late (around MN) to do that.

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We got a ham or turkey and a 1% bonus. Neither makes sense since we are doing layoffs and furloughs.

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Specializes in Occ Health; Med/Surg; ICU.

Indeed, they did. They removed the day before Christmas, Christmas day, New Years eve day, and New years day from "paid holidays." They also now require that I pay for may own adult CPR card training, and do not help with license fee even though I have one in my native state and need another one for the state I work in. They have removed medical insurance. Downgraded dental insurance so that cost=benefits, and have removed a flexible medical savings account. So my Holiday "gift" was (-$946.00) (Overall the year's loss stands equal to a pay reduction of about $9,000.

A better gift considering my happiness score would be a "You are terminated" note. And I'm being serious. At least I could collect unemployment and find another job with benefits. I won't even ski anymore as it's too risky--a broken leg would cost about $7k.

A few years ago I crowed about how wonderful a nursing career was. Last year I stopped recommending it. This year, in light of the Healthcare bill I now recommend against entering the medical field as a nurse, a doctor, ect. for things appear to be heading in a direction that is not positive.

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Specializes in Utilization Management.

We got a catered holiday luncheon, $15 Publix gift card, and I, personally, got a $25 holiday bonus in my last check. If I worked directly for a physician, the bonus amount would be up to him/her; the girls over in plastic surgery, for example, got a $700 bonus last year.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

We got a $15 "Turkey Allowance" inserted into our pay, thereby causing us to pay taxes on it.

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Specializes in Management, Emergency, Psych, Med Surg.

No. And thank God. I hate that kind of stuff. I just like having us do stuff on our own on our own unit.

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A hearty handshake and a Ho Ho Ho!! Nothing!

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Specializes in Occupational Health Nurse/ case manager.

EwwThatsNasty,

YOU ARE A RIOT!!!! CAN'T STOP LAUGHING BECAUSE I FEEL THE SAME WAY. YOU "HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD"

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Specializes in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Volunteer Nursing.

Get this.We got 50$ gift cards to Walmart also,then everyone noticed 50$ was taken out of our check on their paystub.Well what they did was tax us on the 50$ giftcards!! They pulled the 50$ out then put it back in but it was taxed.Can never get anything for free anymore:stone

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we got a $25 walmart gift card for thanksgiving, and $100 direct deposited into our accounts for christmas. :yeah:

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