This made me mad when I saw it.

[netglow]

full time employee for specialty office

(the ad describes expanded tech type/office job, i abbreviated to disguise it but it deals with rooming patients, explaining treatment/education, assisting docs, lab work, cleaning equipment, returning patient calls, insurance claims, billing, etc.)

if we interview, you will bring documentation that you completed a 4 year college and your gpa above 3.5/4.0.

• compensation: $10.00/hour. may increase if skill increases.
  

thinking of sending them a nasty gram. all you people who just graduated college with 50 thousand + debt, this is what your industry thinks you are worth. pimping you out! that is what it is.

[carrie_c]

I miss waiting tables sometimes. Much less stress and responsibility than nursing. On a good day, or during the busy season, I made as much (or more) than I do as a nurse, and I worked shorter hours. But it was unpredictable and not always reliable source of income.

There are actually lots of similarities between nursing and waiting tables. They are both service industries, both deal directly with the public, and I think I was better prepared for the ignorance of people because of my years of waiting tables. There are some differences, however. Although people can be rude, eating out is usually a happy occasion. Most folks in the hospital aren't all that happy. So although you can sometimes feel degraded by an especially rude customer, it is nothing to how mean a dissatisfied family or patient can be toward a nurse. At a restaurant, you can walk away or tell them that you won't serve them anymore alcohol, and they may throw a fit, but they will eventually leave. In the hospital, you do service recovery and you have to keep pushing the dilaudid because it is ordered and you have to put up with these people for days on end! Because if you don't, not only will you be reprimanded by your work place for poor customer service (who cares if the pt goes outside to smoke immediately after each dose of IV dilaudid) but these people will threaten your job, your livelihood, your license, and everything else you have worked so hard for. And who knows-they just might get it all taken away. I've heard horror stories.

So, a little off topic, but the point is that sometimes, having a simple job that pays a little less that doesn't come home with you everyday seems like heaven. I'm actually planning on picking up a second job waiting tables this summer. I'm a little disillusioned with nursing. I resent the debt that I have because of nursing school. I hate that I deal with the scum of the Earth on a regular basis and have to kiss their butts but I still have to get a second job to make ends meet. Yes there are good parts to nursing, but I think they are losing to the bad ones.

Sorry about the rant. Have a nice day.

This is why I do OB nursing. Much happier and nicer patients LOL!

[rockinmom]

Was this in CA???

I lived in California for close to 3 years. After the economy took a dive the job market was flooded with people who had degrees and had been laid off. At the time my field of expertise was admin/clerical/customer service. I had just gotten laid off because I was pregnant (long story, basically they couldn't have 2 women pregnant in a 3 person office). I took to Craigslist, local help wanted ads, job boards/sites. Every single ad was exactly like this. They overloaded you with duties that would normally be the responsibility of 2-3 people, expected you to have a bachelors degree, be bilingual but also speak and write English fluently, and yet they only wanted to pay $9-10 per hour (if you were lucky).

Considering the fact that daycare in our area was $300-400 WEEKLY I finally gave up. Employers think that a chosen applicant should be HAPPY to work for them under these conditions because so many people need a job. Well guess what? I don't have a 4 year degree. I've only taken one college course. I personally know people who have a bachelors and have even gone back for additional education and they can't hold a candle to my intelligence (not meaning that to sound like I have a big head lol!). I educate myself every chance I get by researching, reading, and absorbing everything around me. I hadn't had the money to go back to school to get a degree plus raise my daughter alone. It wasn't possible for me. That doesn't mean I don't know how to answer phones and file papers.

Basically, I think a lot of employers need to be brought down a few pegs and informed their expectations are more than unrealistic.

[Morainey, BSN, RN]

I would say, tell them to go screw, but I used to get paid $11.75/hour at my old job after I got that big, beautiful diploma and it seemed like I was making a ton of cash. Sigh. IN THIS ECONOMY, ya know?

[anotherone, BSN, RN]

Why do all of that for $10 an hour when you can go somewhere else that requires much less responsibility and only a high school diploma for more money.

Yeah, in many places retail/ fast food makes the same or a tiny bit less. It depends on how far you can "climb the ladder in the job". It really is an employers market. always will be. this job might be good for people who do not need the money, maybe? there are some people who work for something to do.

[VICEDRN, BSN, RN]

$10/hr would be typical in metro Atlanta for an MA. The skill set sounds right as well. The bilingual thing and the college degree sends it over the top but hey, someone people are always looking for a sweet deal.

[vintage_RN, BSN, RN]

WOW...ridiculous! i live in Ontario, Canada and minimum wage is $10.25/hr and fast food workers make that! PSWs (our version of CNA) starts at I believe at least $13-$14....RPNS start around $22/hr in my area and RNs start around $25/hr i believe