So I work as an LPN in an outpatient clinic. I am fairly new, only been there a few weeks. At a staff meeting, our manager announced that for Christmas the entire staff was invited to go to a party at a local restaurant. Okay, that might be fun. Now for the kicker, she wants everyone to donate $20 each and treat all the doctors to dinner.
Yep, instead of talking about how great the staff was doing and how we all should celebrate the holidays together, she talked about how much the doctors do for us and what we should do for them. So me with my $11.66 an hour should pay for the dinner of someone whose salary makes a complete and total mockery of mine (not to mention the other office staff that make even less than us nurses do). Way to take my Christmas spirit, strangle it, then jump up and down on the dead body until there's nothing left but ash.
I don't mind the concept of doing something nice for the docs, but you need to consider our budget. I have about 500 other more important things to spend $20 on, like a winter coat for my kid, groceries, a desperately needed oil change, etc. It's just amazing to me that for a staff Christmas party the priority is treating the doctors. Most of whom I believe would be rather uncomfortable having us pay for their meals. One of our docs even said that it should be the other way around!
Anyway, thanks, but I think I have other plans that day, like doing laundry, or maybe scrubbing my bathroom.
I worked with an ER Doctor in a 40 bed ER who would regularly buy dinner for every staff member in the ER at Denny's in the middle of the night. After the first couple of times of him spending 400-600 bucks there, anyone could take his ATM and pick the food up. I felt guilty at first, but he always did it when we had a terrible night and everyone was just over worked to the max. It picked up the morale for sure. I miss working with that guy, he was a great Doctor as well. For the Christmas party, his gift to the winner was a 1000 gift card to take a vacation on.
I worked with an ER Doctor in a 40 bed ER who would regularly buy dinner for every staff member in the ER at Denny's in the middle of the night. After the first couple of times of him spending 400-600 bucks there, anyone could take his ATM and pick the food up. I felt guilty at first, but he always did it when we had a terrible night and everyone was just over worked to the max. It picked up the morale for sure. I miss working with that guy, he was a great Doctor as well. For the Christmas party, his gift to the winner was a 1000 gift card to take a vacation on.
To be fair I don't think it should be the other way around either, rather everyone should simply pay for themselves. Just because a doctor makes more money doesn't mean they should be told to spend it on the other staff either.
Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.
To be fair I don't think it should be the other way around either, rather everyone should simply pay for themselves. Just because a doctor makes more money doesn't mean they should be told to spend it on the other staff either.
I agree. And it is a while before physicians see the results of their money. Residents live on a pauper's salary (in my area about half of what a new grad RN in the hospital makes) and are usually in a great deal of debt from med school and even undergrad. So they start off in the red, so to speak, as attendings.
And seriously, 11.66??? When I started as a tech about nine years ago, I made 12.66!
Your manager's idea is almost laughable......almost. Let's take up a collection to pay for the meal of a 6 figure MD? I just don't get it.
Six figures? Some of the surgeons/cardiologists where I work are bringing in seven figures!
It should be the other way around. I've seen plenty of nurses SAVE a doctor's butt numerous times. They should be treating the nurses for saving their livelihood...namely their license.
And to the OP, I am so sorry. 11.66/hr? As an LPN? That's insane, considering I know aides who make more than that!
So I work as an LPN in an outpatient clinic. I am fairly new, only been there a few weeks. At a staff meeting, our manager announced that for Christmas the entire staff was invited to go to a party at a local restaurant. Okay, that might be fun. Now for the kicker, she wants everyone to donate $20 each and treat all the doctors to dinner.
Yep, instead of talking about how great the staff was doing and how we all should celebrate the holidays together, she talked about how much the doctors do for us and what we should do for them. So me with my $11.66 an hour should pay for the dinner of someone whose salary makes a complete and total mockery of mine (not to mention the other office staff that make even less than us nurses do). Way to take my Christmas spirit, strangle it, then jump up and down on the dead body until there's nothing left but ash.
I don't mind the concept of doing something nice for the docs, but you need to consider our budget. I have about 500 other more important things to spend $20 on, like a winter coat for my kid, groceries, a desperately needed oil change, etc. It's just amazing to me that for a staff Christmas party the priority is treating the doctors. Most of whom I believe would be rather uncomfortable having us pay for their meals. One of our docs even said that it should be the other way around!
Anyway, thanks, but I think I have other plans that day, like doing laundry, or maybe scrubbing my bathroom.
I almost fell out of my chair when I read this.
I guess it is not that surprising. I once worked a job where my manager designated a person in our group to plan her birthday party, and told us she wanted a leather coat for her birthday. We actually had a dummy on our team to pay $40 for a cake and somehow the manager did end up with a leather coat. I don't know who paid for the coat (or people who paid for it), but she didn't get it because I chipped in for it.
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That actually made me laugh!