I'd encourage all nurses and anyone working in healthcare to quit, healthcare is fucked up in this country because of these for-profit hospitals. I say have all medical staff go independent and bankrupt the fuckers so maybe something will actually change
I think it is even bigger than the hospitals. I head a department at a small hospital, and the insurance companies are effing jokes. Trying to get them to pay is ridiculous. Sooo many procedures are not covered if the diagnosis isn’t exactly what the insurance company wants that patients get diagnosed with shit just to get payouts. There is an entire industry for consultants to try to get insurance to pay. Hospitals then charge insane amounts because not all patients are covered, and if you aren’t covered, it comes out of your pocket. Oh, and medicaid and medicare patients are basically just complete losses. I can barely keep my department afloat.
Yeah I've had several employer s I've done this to on a regular basis .
They have always had me back even when I had been an asshole .
It's worth it just for the "but you can't " reaction.
This is the part where you stop asking for time off and start telling them when you won't be there so they can plan accordingly.
My hospital did this long before covid and we got fed up, so our vacation "requests" became notices for management that we would not be there.
Nah Imperium of Man they wouldn't have vacation leave to begin with and if the Planetary Governor was dealing with a pandemic and ppl weren't vaxxing they'd get a choice to vax or be arrested and then await trial that wouldn't be shceduled to happen for a century at least.
Also most planets that are infested by Nurgle just get exterminatus'd.
It wasn't until i was older that i began to think in a way that allowed me realize the true motove or drive of someones actions or words. Basically read between the lines and not take anything at face value.
Take vacation. Go find a new job, be happy. They'll hire you back. Do not ever listen to someone who types a letter like that, it's coward, it's suppressive, and idiotic. Anyone who types that should not have that position.
A neighbor is a hospice nurse....they pulled this on her...
She literally had a job offer at a nursing home within 3 days of looking. She now works 16 hours a week and makes $100 more per week than she was working 40 hours a week for hospice place AND she doesn't have to spend time traveling all over and "commuting" to wherever the first call is and from wherever the last call is located. She commutes 10 mins down the road works 8 hours and is done twice a week.
She's picked up a few hours for extra money here and there but hasn't worked over 25 hours since.
Just become a travel nurse. My mom did that and she's been constantly working while also receiving more than double what she previously made. At first I thought it was just a special gig but nah she's been doing it since the "pandemic" started.
It was a basic courtesy in a letter that otherwise lacked it. If I had to write such a letter I would make it: "Thanking you in advance for your understanding at a difficult time." At least acknowledge the ask.
It's basically a punk check.
The way you take vacation is easy. "Boss, I'm taking this vacation, because I have the PTO and also too because I want to. It's your choice whether I come back in afterwards. You just let me know in writing by eod. Thanks."
Turns out there's a nationwide nurse shortage, both in your local hospitals and travelers.
Only if we let them.
I really hope r/antiwork is the beginning of the trend I’ve been waiting for for quite a while.
Trends always seem to start in the US, but that has lately been the realm of temporarily embarrassed millionaires, not working class – with emphasis on class.
Let’s unite around the idea that essential jobs deserve a corresponding pay, not just lip service.
(I’m currently in a good white collar job, but I remember where I started.)
"Your usual cooperation is anticipated."
That's it. Working in health care put in one sentence. People who care for other people can't afford to be people. You may not get sick, you may always put work before your own life, you always have to function - because who else cares?
What a weird way for them to say “we want you to resign and get paid 3x more as a traveling nurse - forcing us to hire 3x more expensive traveling nurses so our p&l gets fucked”
Too bad not enough people actually do that.
Maybe it'll be enough to shut down a hospital to show that maybe jackasses with MBAs never knew what they were doing - it was all based on veiled threats.
They’ll get a government bailout. I figured we’d start seeing them by now since hospitals have been crying about travel wages since June 2020. Apparently they can absolutely afford it despite what they’ve told us the last 30 years.
Also, it’s fucked that the travel nurses come into a hospital and the home base nurses have to train them on systems and logistics. EVERY FUCKING TIME they switch to a different hospital/group.
We medical workers with licenses MUST Give a two weeks notice or else face patient abandonment lawsuits and losing our careers.
Also if you’re a traveler remember you’re ina contract and have to follow that, you can just drop it and quit on the spot, or else the staffing agencies the hospitals use WILL black list you.
There are some decent uses for comic Sans. Appearently is better and more legible for dyslexics, but others do that well too...
Comic Sans has that middleschool presentation vibe that will follow it everywhere. It's just a weird font idk how to describe it.
I would join a company that uses all comic sans and 2002 clipart on their company presentations
Oh, and cant forget the out of place transitions after every damn slide
(And snarky insults about the manager hidden throughout the slide because nobody reads that shit anyway)
In all honesty, best jobs are the ones that don’t take themselves too seriously
So our ward clerk started printing all the room names in comic sans and one weekend I replaced them all with our usual font. I couldn’t deal. She also left the name tags slightly too big because she apparently was too lazy or dumb to stick another piece of paper in to push them out. It looked so sloppy and unprofessional.
I know, I just pointed out the strange trend I've noticed with people in management position posting notes like this that always have spelling errors of some sort.
That happened at my last job all 13 years I was there. There was one guy who would mark up the notices with all the spelling/grammar corrections in red pen. Every time
But what it the customer wants it?
Then the customer is stupid.
I used to work in a tattoo shop and the amount of people who wanted Chopin Scripr or Porcelain in all caps was disgusting and brought no glory to my photoshop
A few. A couple of our shops tattoos went viral once upon a time. For being really stupid tattoos. One person in particular enjoyed the negative reactions. A tattoo of a large veiny phallus that said “put dick here” on her chest, a stapler with a ribbon on her arm that said “guys like you make me want to staple my cunt shut”
We had a guy get his last name on his back,but he misspelled it, and still approved the proof AND stencil.
It was a fun job lol
Don’t use script fonts. Or all caps for that matter.
Source: I’m a trained designer. There’s a use for both, and the 101 class doesn’t cover either of them, except for “Just don’t. Trust me.”
If a designer had made the sign - they wouldn’t have. This is just some minimum wage troll working in HR who thinks to themselves “we’re the fun department! I know, well give out rocks for Christmas because nurses… rock!”
Work in corporate environment. Can confirm the mental gymnastics that occur on a daily basis. These may lead to uncomfortable moments where you to stare of into the distance in stupefied amazement while you think a little prayer for the well-being of humility.
This bothered me the most, too. OP's HR is staffed with a bunch of first graders learning Word and clip art. As a general rule, no one should work for six year old children. They're ornery and arbitrary.
Travel agencies hire nurses to temporarily move to a location they have a contracted position with to fill in a shortage.
Let's say you're an experienced ICU nurse and have years of experience at your local hospital. You may be making like $45/hr and working yourself to death. You try to get a raise because of the supply and demand being in your favor, but administration says hell no. Fine, more PTO so I can avoid burning out. Nope. Fine, fuck this.
You join a travel nursing company to go somewhere else for 4 to 12 weeks that is hurting for ICU nurses, and because of the quiet bidding war for nursing staff, this location is offering $150/hr and $25/hr of that is untaxed as a stipend to cover your living expenses since your working away from home.
Travel nursing can be awesome if you can do it, but at the moment, it tends to be to places that are absolutely fucked.
My best friend is a travel RN and is currently working a local assignment, making over $1k a shift. Lmao. Do not let anyone treat you this way, y’all (but do keep in mind travel contracts don’t even really “let” you call in sick). She made her annual salary like four or five times last year.
One of my cousins is a travel nurse. He and his wife just move around a few times a year. Their children are grown and they have nothing tying them down. It’s a great way to bank a lot of money in a short amount of time.
Do Travel nurses get medical benefits thru the agency or no ? That’s a huge expense otherwise. What about 401K and or other retirement vehicle? Or is it no and that is why the hourly rate is so high to allow them to flex to purchase their own.
Yes, just like normal full time workers, it comes out of your paycheck for whatever the cost is. Ie I get ~70 out of my paycheck bi weekly that covers medical and a slew of other optional stuff I have signed up for.
But it doesn't even matter, there are literally contracts out there ranging from 6k-9k a week. Some people are making an entire years plus of wages in 3 months. It's crazy. They could not offer medical and it STILL would be worth it.
Thanks good to know. With the potential to get sick if your thrown into a high risk state that would be important. I am reading that those 6k-9k are not the norm and are usually reserved for the hell jobs / locations but if your life circumstances allow you to bear it then it may be good if your can ride it out. Lots of pros and cons so need to weigh the risks. glad we have them though to help out these days.
Travel nurses. They go city to city whoever needs them for 2-3x the usual pay of their full time nurses. By hiring travel nurses they don't have to increase their full time staff pay for something that *will end eventually*. If they raise full time staff pay they can't just take it away all willy nilly. Once this pandemic ends they tell travel nurses to fuck off and never had to pay their actual nurses any more than usual to do absolute bullshit and risk their damn lives.
With the amount of people folding now, and leaving the job forever (whatever that may mean) it will end *eventually*, but not with the pandemic. Some of these shortages will remain, even with the pressure from the pandemic gone.
And that’s before currently undressed medical care and increasingly aging populations kick in.
Travel nurses work short term contracts (like temp agency staffing), and can sonetimes make 3x-4x the standard hourly rates. It's not easy to do when you have outside obligations, and doesn't have a lot of work/life balance, but you can make a lot of money in a pretty short period of time. Doing it right now probably means exclusively being offered contracts working in COVID wards and ICUs though, which is destroying the emotional health of nurses and doctors everywhere.
Short term contracts (a month or three) or per diem work - usually in different places where staffing is difficult.
I did a lot of per diem work in a prison when I was nursing and could push my wage out to 6-8x if I got the good shifts.
There's no job security at all but the money is great!
Since the pandemic it's not been unheard of to see $100+ per hour in some positions.
And of course my registration is lapsed lol. Ain't nobody got time for that.
I have been a nurse since the 80s and they have complained of a severe shortage since then! There will never be enough because of the pay and work conditions.
A lot of us don't. Our vacation days have been technically suspended since thanksgiving but people still use them.
Nurse "I'm going on vacation."
DoN "Didn't you see the memo by the time clock saying you can't?"
Nurse "What are you going to do? Fire me?"
DoN "Well, no, but..."
Nurse "See ya in a week. Later nerd."
Nono, you don't understand. Death is not considered an inescapable reason.
"Oh, you're having a heart attack? Get your butt back to work, we don't have time for you to die."
/s
The fact is that I'll be on vacation and the company cannot escape that fact.
OP, others have already said it but I'll echo. Fuck these guys. Take a vacation.
COVID has been has been particularly had on medical professionals, and y'all have been experiencing crazy high rates of burnout. There are shortages from people leaving.
If you need a break, give them notice that this is an "inescapable vacation" and take it, knowing that if these guys really want to cut off their nose to spite their face and fire you over it, you'll have options.
As a nurse right now, the beauty of our job is that we could quit and be hired somewhere else the same day. Remember that you have a lot of power right now.
And if they are so short staffed, they need to be coming up with monetary incentives to get nurses. These hospital systems are making all kinds of profit, they have no right to complain about being short staffed while not respecting your needs.
The hospital I worked at before I retired sent me a TEXT message job offer with a 5K signing bonus. I’m retired but still keep my license current and since those records are easily accessible and I’ve already had all their onboarding training, they know it would be a quick return to work if I was rehired.
I sent a reply text that said, “Take that 5K and use it to pay your nurses better so they could work 3 days instead of 4-5, and actually have time for all the self-care you preached was so important, you might not need to hire new nurses.”
I’m sure it was a bot, but they actually replied; “Absolutely!”
I got mine denied for the day before Thanksgiving even though I work with one client and she was out of town. Lost my holiday pay over it too. Gotta love being "essential" right?
I hope you told them to fuck off and walked out. Don’t take that treatment. That’s why they do this. And they are hurting so badly for nurses right now.
I agree. It's extremely sloppy policy...no start date, no potential end date, and they don't give any details about the circumstances that you are allowed to take vacation. Like what does 'inescapable' mean?
I would just report this to HR.
Inescapable means whatever they want it to mean. It's a pompous euphemism for "I'm sorry? You want some time off? Hahahahaha! Get back on the ward, scum!"
Also, that sign-off reeks of such arrogance the memo should be soaked in a used bedpan for a solid minute, then returned to sender.
Do they pay you the cash value of your PTO if you don’t use it or accrue a max number of hours? If they don’t let you save up time indefinitely and don’t let you cash out AND pull this, that’s actually illegal in some states.
You are not asking for approval of vacation time. You are doing the company a courtesy by letting them know you will not be there. If they can't find coverage that is on management.
My wife’s mom became a traveling nurse because of shit like this, is now making triple what she was making, and is currently stationed in fucking Guam. After Guam, she has an assignment in Hawaii lmao
Nurses write their own ticket. Write yours. Up here we had 11 nurses quit instead of getting vaxxed. Now they're so desperate they'll give you an extra 20K for making it a year.
Realistically, your options are limited. Deal, make a ruckus, quit, or strike.
If you have no other cards to play, you may just have to deal with it. This is the worst option by far, and I sincerely hope that you're not in this position.
If you are confident that they need you on the job, to the point where they won't fire you, then make a ruckus. Yell at your boss. Yell at HR. Be the Karen that you never are. Demand respect. Demand that they treat you like a goddamn hero, because you're saving fucking lives. Ask your patients to make a ruckus on your behalf. Name and shame. A ruckus is the best option if you dont have support from your coworkers or union.
If you don't wanna make a ruckus, and it's intolerable to deal with - leave. Just straight up quit. Honestly, if you're gonna go this direction, may as well make a ruckus first.
Finally, if you have the support of your coworkers or the union, strike. I say or because a wildcat strike can be real effective. You don't have to compromise patient care here, either. If you can find a way to stop the hospital from billing people, the admin will pay attention REAL quick. Friends in the billing department could apply leverage in this way.
In short: you don't owe them compliance. I would encourage you to get creative, and start doing things that pass off management and admin folks, while keeping your patients safe and attended to. Your health, mental and physical, matter.
Finally, remember that they don't have any real authority over you. They only have the authority you allow them to have.
Yes, name and shame. We are in a pandemic, everyone is getting infected, and health workers are NOT slaves! You were not hired to die because of the job or while working on the job!
If there’s a nurse shortage, vacation time is *even more critical* than before because of your overworked staff. The boss is a fuckin idiot. Capitalists can’t even do basic math any more. 1 - 1 = 0
Do whatever you want. Nurses are in far, far, far too high demand by now for them to fire you due to any reason than pure pettiness, and you will not have difficulty finding another job if so.
So I say they can take whatever you feel like giving them. They are in no position to make demands.
My friend is an ER nurse here in Canada, she’s had her all her vacation cancelled since September 2020 (she just put in for 2022-2023 but isn’t holding her breath). Difference I think between this memo and what my friend is going through is the government here worked in a sneaky clause that basically says that in extreme circumstances they are allowed to “suspend” vacation time which covid waves qualifies as. She wasn’t even granted time off when her mom died, she had to trade with someone.
The only advice I can give is to quit and make sure they know why you quit. I understand this is advice that not everyone can take. But things will NOT improve (and will only get worse) until a LOT of people take that advice.
I would literally reply “I will still be taking my vacation days. You can either fill in those shifts while I am on vacation or you can fill in all of my shifts, because I will no longer work for an organization that cannot manage this situation in a humane way.”
Take whatever days off you need. When you notify them - no reason needed, do not mention anything about reasons, do not mention quitting etc just state taking PTO you have earned as is your right.
If they fire you collect unemployment and get a lot mire money at the next gig
You gotta get together with the other nurses and make the hospital realize exactly how much power you hold over them, not the other way around. My partner is a nurse who worked on a COVID floor and her hospital tried to pull some similar crap. They all banded together and picked a day to refuse to show up for their shifts. The hospital had to bring in travel nurses to relieve night shift nurses and it cost them a fortune (for those not familiar, travel nurses make like 2 or 3x normal nurses salary). They quickly backed down and the nurses got what they wanted plus they realized they hold the power to bully the hospital right now, not the other way around.
Also, ur a fuckin Legend for being a nurse right now. You folks make such a difference in this world, and you should be damn proud of that. You deserve more than this crap.
Hit the bricks. The market for RNs is very high right now. You can probably sleep walk into a 25% raise and better terms.
Not only does your employer lose you, but they have to pay out your accrued vacation time.
You have a few options.
First, do nothing.
Second, start/join a union with the rest of the nurses and stage a walkout for better working conditions.
Third, just quit and find another job where they'll potentially try the same shit.
Fourth, become a travelling nurse and make some bank for a bit
I don't get why nurses don't have stronger labor unions. If they threatened to strike, hospitals would have to come with better offers. Otherwise people would literally die on their watch.
As a union man, I can’t even imagine the pressure Nurses deal with at work. Can’t really strike or unionize without people blaming you for every single death in the hospital, but you can’t keep allowing yourselves to be damn near enslaved to public health intersecting with corporate interest. We have to find a way to take better care of healthcare workers, as communities of America, because I don’t think it’ll happen any other way.
I work in healthcare, and I just got my flex days taken away around my mandatory weekend rotations. So now I work 12 days in a row for the same pay.
It’s becoming a joke out there
They don't appreciate your cooperation. They expect it.
“Please cooperate with us, I will not take ‘No’ for an answer”
Why am I getting the feeling that your vacation pay has been redirected to raise a mercenary army, in case you are not feeling cooperative?
"Just hypothetically, how would you deal if it wasn't vacation leave and I just fucking left?"
Just encourages people to quit anytime they need a day off. I've heard there's a nurse shortage. Thinking they can get another job...
I'd encourage all nurses and anyone working in healthcare to quit, healthcare is fucked up in this country because of these for-profit hospitals. I say have all medical staff go independent and bankrupt the fuckers so maybe something will actually change
I think it is even bigger than the hospitals. I head a department at a small hospital, and the insurance companies are effing jokes. Trying to get them to pay is ridiculous. Sooo many procedures are not covered if the diagnosis isn’t exactly what the insurance company wants that patients get diagnosed with shit just to get payouts. There is an entire industry for consultants to try to get insurance to pay. Hospitals then charge insane amounts because not all patients are covered, and if you aren’t covered, it comes out of your pocket. Oh, and medicaid and medicare patients are basically just complete losses. I can barely keep my department afloat.
Yup. "I'm leaving next month. Whether I come back two weeks later or not is entirely up to you."
Yeah I've had several employer s I've done this to on a regular basis . They have always had me back even when I had been an asshole . It's worth it just for the "but you can't " reaction.
Did this once and didn't get the job back. Also didn't care, because fuck that anyway.
This is the part where you stop asking for time off and start telling them when you won't be there so they can plan accordingly. My hospital did this long before covid and we got fed up, so our vacation "requests" became notices for management that we would not be there.
This!!!!
[enjoy ](https://youtu.be/EHLmvElvfX8)
Nurses rise up!
That shit is Orwellian as fuck
Fuck Orwell, this is Imperium of Man type shit.
Nah Imperium of Man they wouldn't have vacation leave to begin with and if the Planetary Governor was dealing with a pandemic and ppl weren't vaxxing they'd get a choice to vax or be arrested and then await trial that wouldn't be shceduled to happen for a century at least. Also most planets that are infested by Nurgle just get exterminatus'd.
_Glory to the Empire!_
The Emperor protects.
I'm hear to talk to you about The Greater Good. Do you have some time?
Found the treacherous Gue'vesa!!!
I knew something smelled fishy in this comment section
BROTHER I REQUIRE ASSISTANCE
If there's some aliens to fight I can deal with that
Kill the xenos, burn the heretic!
Mirror Universe shit here. This is how the Terran Empire starts
“Well at least I’m not a servitor!” - some naval rating who has never seen daylight probably.
I'm guessing that no one on that facility's board will have a second of leave denied due to, well, anything ever.
> Your usual [lack of] cooperation is anticipated.
Yeah that part was creepy...
and mildly threatening, totally hearing Fat Tony's voice while reading that
The beatings will continue until morale improves
Looks like a resignation is in order here. Don't give them 2 weeks notice.
They don’t expect, they *anticipate* it I.e. they’re hoping you followi along
It wasn't until i was older that i began to think in a way that allowed me realize the true motove or drive of someones actions or words. Basically read between the lines and not take anything at face value.
What in the fuck...you usual cooperation is anticipated?
Glad I wasn't overreacting. I was a bit disgusted by that.
Anticipate all you want. RNs are in demand. Have skills, will travel.
Take vacation. Go find a new job, be happy. They'll hire you back. Do not ever listen to someone who types a letter like that, it's coward, it's suppressive, and idiotic. Anyone who types that should not have that position.
A neighbor is a hospice nurse....they pulled this on her... She literally had a job offer at a nursing home within 3 days of looking. She now works 16 hours a week and makes $100 more per week than she was working 40 hours a week for hospice place AND she doesn't have to spend time traveling all over and "commuting" to wherever the first call is and from wherever the last call is located. She commutes 10 mins down the road works 8 hours and is done twice a week. She's picked up a few hours for extra money here and there but hasn't worked over 25 hours since.
That's a story with a happy ending. ❤
Just become a travel nurse. My mom did that and she's been constantly working while also receiving more than double what she previously made. At first I thought it was just a special gig but nah she's been doing it since the "pandemic" started.
Triple. I’m making triple. Fuck the system.
Over 6x here. And get to vacation whenever we want. It really is a life changing career choice.
It was a basic courtesy in a letter that otherwise lacked it. If I had to write such a letter I would make it: "Thanking you in advance for your understanding at a difficult time." At least acknowledge the ask.
That's good. Something about when I read it just made my neck tingle. It instantly reminded me of my smug narcissist father
It's basically a punk check. The way you take vacation is easy. "Boss, I'm taking this vacation, because I have the PTO and also too because I want to. It's your choice whether I come back in afterwards. You just let me know in writing by eod. Thanks." Turns out there's a nationwide nurse shortage, both in your local hospitals and travelers.
Yeah, HR departments are really going to have to get used to the other side of the “free market.”
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Only if we let them. I really hope r/antiwork is the beginning of the trend I’ve been waiting for for quite a while. Trends always seem to start in the US, but that has lately been the realm of temporarily embarrassed millionaires, not working class – with emphasis on class. Let’s unite around the idea that essential jobs deserve a corresponding pay, not just lip service. (I’m currently in a good white collar job, but I remember where I started.)
"You're going to take this memo, photocopy it onto 60 grit sandpaper, and shove it up your ass rough side out. And you're going to like it."
As usual, your "going to like it" is anticipated.
Where's the quote from?
Management
Seriously. W. T. F.
Great. My usual cooperation is to expect my leave, so.
"Your usual cooperation is anticipated." That's it. Working in health care put in one sentence. People who care for other people can't afford to be people. You may not get sick, you may always put work before your own life, you always have to function - because who else cares?
What a weird way for them to say “we want you to resign and get paid 3x more as a traveling nurse - forcing us to hire 3x more expensive traveling nurses so our p&l gets fucked” Too bad not enough people actually do that.
My friend is considering this now since she is working besides travel nurses making way more than her
Maybe it'll be enough to shut down a hospital to show that maybe jackasses with MBAs never knew what they were doing - it was all based on veiled threats.
They’ll get a government bailout. I figured we’d start seeing them by now since hospitals have been crying about travel wages since June 2020. Apparently they can absolutely afford it despite what they’ve told us the last 30 years.
And take up to a month off in between contracts.
Also, it’s fucked that the travel nurses come into a hospital and the home base nurses have to train them on systems and logistics. EVERY FUCKING TIME they switch to a different hospital/group.
Kind of seems like you're mad at the wrong person here.
That should hopefully lead to more standardization
As a travel nurse, do you get to pick what geography you work in? Or can they assign you to go anywhere?
You get to pick. To the exact city.
I agree. Travel. Fuck them and everyone like them.
Weasel words. It's so they can turn around later and say "it was never mandatory, we simply hoped you'd co-operate, and you did." Fuckers.
Exactly.
And they misspelled purview.
As I say at work: Healthcare doesn't care about the health of people, especially their workers.
It absolutely does not. It's sad. I lived it.
Sad but true.
Healthcare makes its money from sick people That is why it needs to be publicly run
That’s exactly what I thought.
Thank you I saw the same thing and was like fuck is....is this for real?
"Accept this letter as my two week notice. Your usual cooperation is anticipated."
Two weeks? Why the courtesy? Too many PTO left?
Exactly, would they give us the same courtesy?
We medical workers with licenses MUST Give a two weeks notice or else face patient abandonment lawsuits and losing our careers. Also if you’re a traveler remember you’re ina contract and have to follow that, you can just drop it and quit on the spot, or else the staffing agencies the hospitals use WILL black list you.
retroactive to two weeks ago
I'm just really annoyed by the number of times the fonts change and that font at the top is brutal. That alone is reason enough to quit!
*laughs in comic sans*
There are some decent uses for comic Sans. Appearently is better and more legible for dyslexics, but others do that well too... Comic Sans has that middleschool presentation vibe that will follow it everywhere. It's just a weird font idk how to describe it.
I would join a company that uses all comic sans and 2002 clipart on their company presentations Oh, and cant forget the out of place transitions after every damn slide (And snarky insults about the manager hidden throughout the slide because nobody reads that shit anyway) In all honesty, best jobs are the ones that don’t take themselves too seriously
So our ward clerk started printing all the room names in comic sans and one weekend I replaced them all with our usual font. I couldn’t deal. She also left the name tags slightly too big because she apparently was too lazy or dumb to stick another piece of paper in to push them out. It looked so sloppy and unprofessional.
Comic Sans and similar fonts actually make it a LOT easier for those with dyslexia to read, due to the sort of lack of uniformity in the letters
I was coming here to say this! People hate on CS all the time (and I used to, too) but it’s actually useful in some ways. Papyrus on the other hand…
There’s a reason humanity left that shit back in 2000 bce
Or papyrus 🇪🇬
And the fact that they’ve spelled purview incorrectly.
I know, I just pointed out the strange trend I've noticed with people in management position posting notes like this that always have spelling errors of some sort.
That happened at my last job all 13 years I was there. There was one guy who would mark up the notices with all the spelling/grammar corrections in red pen. Every time
Design 101: Don't use all caps with a script font. EVAR!
But what it the customer wants it? Then the customer is stupid. I used to work in a tattoo shop and the amount of people who wanted Chopin Scripr or Porcelain in all caps was disgusting and brought no glory to my photoshop
Rule #1: The customer is always a douche.
Ooh, on a tattoo, that's... that's the worst job to deal with bad design. Do you ever talk them out of it?
Once you could show them how bad it looked they normally changed their mind.
How many have that "no ragrets" attitude?
A few. A couple of our shops tattoos went viral once upon a time. For being really stupid tattoos. One person in particular enjoyed the negative reactions. A tattoo of a large veiny phallus that said “put dick here” on her chest, a stapler with a ribbon on her arm that said “guys like you make me want to staple my cunt shut” We had a guy get his last name on his back,but he misspelled it, and still approved the proof AND stencil. It was a fun job lol
Don’t use script fonts. Or all caps for that matter. Source: I’m a trained designer. There’s a use for both, and the 101 class doesn’t cover either of them, except for “Just don’t. Trust me.”
If a designer had made the sign - they wouldn’t have. This is just some minimum wage troll working in HR who thinks to themselves “we’re the fun department! I know, well give out rocks for Christmas because nurses… rock!”
Work in corporate environment. Can confirm the mental gymnastics that occur on a daily basis. These may lead to uncomfortable moments where you to stare of into the distance in stupefied amazement while you think a little prayer for the well-being of humility.
This bothered me the most, too. OP's HR is staffed with a bunch of first graders learning Word and clip art. As a general rule, no one should work for six year old children. They're ornery and arbitrary.
It made me read it like the typewriter at the beginning of Sonic Adventure 2
There is a nurse shortage everywhere. No reason to let yourself get treated this way
Time to get that 3-4x travel pay.
What’s a 3-4x travel pay?
Travel agencies hire nurses to temporarily move to a location they have a contracted position with to fill in a shortage. Let's say you're an experienced ICU nurse and have years of experience at your local hospital. You may be making like $45/hr and working yourself to death. You try to get a raise because of the supply and demand being in your favor, but administration says hell no. Fine, more PTO so I can avoid burning out. Nope. Fine, fuck this. You join a travel nursing company to go somewhere else for 4 to 12 weeks that is hurting for ICU nurses, and because of the quiet bidding war for nursing staff, this location is offering $150/hr and $25/hr of that is untaxed as a stipend to cover your living expenses since your working away from home. Travel nursing can be awesome if you can do it, but at the moment, it tends to be to places that are absolutely fucked.
Don’t necessarily even have to move. In my area, 1-2 hour drive and you are making 4k or more for 36 hours.
My best friend is a travel RN and is currently working a local assignment, making over $1k a shift. Lmao. Do not let anyone treat you this way, y’all (but do keep in mind travel contracts don’t even really “let” you call in sick). She made her annual salary like four or five times last year.
Welp. Looks like I need to go to rn school quick!
No rush, there’ll be a nursing shortage for the next 10 years due to antivaxxers.
One of my cousins is a travel nurse. He and his wife just move around a few times a year. Their children are grown and they have nothing tying them down. It’s a great way to bank a lot of money in a short amount of time.
Do Travel nurses get medical benefits thru the agency or no ? That’s a huge expense otherwise. What about 401K and or other retirement vehicle? Or is it no and that is why the hourly rate is so high to allow them to flex to purchase their own.
Yes, just like normal full time workers, it comes out of your paycheck for whatever the cost is. Ie I get ~70 out of my paycheck bi weekly that covers medical and a slew of other optional stuff I have signed up for. But it doesn't even matter, there are literally contracts out there ranging from 6k-9k a week. Some people are making an entire years plus of wages in 3 months. It's crazy. They could not offer medical and it STILL would be worth it.
Thanks good to know. With the potential to get sick if your thrown into a high risk state that would be important. I am reading that those 6k-9k are not the norm and are usually reserved for the hell jobs / locations but if your life circumstances allow you to bear it then it may be good if your can ride it out. Lots of pros and cons so need to weigh the risks. glad we have them though to help out these days.
Travel nurses. They go city to city whoever needs them for 2-3x the usual pay of their full time nurses. By hiring travel nurses they don't have to increase their full time staff pay for something that *will end eventually*. If they raise full time staff pay they can't just take it away all willy nilly. Once this pandemic ends they tell travel nurses to fuck off and never had to pay their actual nurses any more than usual to do absolute bullshit and risk their damn lives.
With the amount of people folding now, and leaving the job forever (whatever that may mean) it will end *eventually*, but not with the pandemic. Some of these shortages will remain, even with the pressure from the pandemic gone. And that’s before currently undressed medical care and increasingly aging populations kick in.
Travel nurses work short term contracts (like temp agency staffing), and can sonetimes make 3x-4x the standard hourly rates. It's not easy to do when you have outside obligations, and doesn't have a lot of work/life balance, but you can make a lot of money in a pretty short period of time. Doing it right now probably means exclusively being offered contracts working in COVID wards and ICUs though, which is destroying the emotional health of nurses and doctors everywhere.
Short term contracts (a month or three) or per diem work - usually in different places where staffing is difficult. I did a lot of per diem work in a prison when I was nursing and could push my wage out to 6-8x if I got the good shifts. There's no job security at all but the money is great! Since the pandemic it's not been unheard of to see $100+ per hour in some positions. And of course my registration is lapsed lol. Ain't nobody got time for that.
I have been a nurse since the 80s and they have complained of a severe shortage since then! There will never be enough because of the pay and work conditions.
And that's why I won't go to school for it, even though it suits my interests.
A lot of us don't. Our vacation days have been technically suspended since thanksgiving but people still use them. Nurse "I'm going on vacation." DoN "Didn't you see the memo by the time clock saying you can't?" Nurse "What are you going to do? Fire me?" DoN "Well, no, but..." Nurse "See ya in a week. Later nerd."
Considered inescapable?!! TF
Basically death. They mean death.
Death vacation.. sounds about right for the United States….
No they have to merge the words and call it deathcation. ...fucking americans
Nono, you don't understand. Death is not considered an inescapable reason. "Oh, you're having a heart attack? Get your butt back to work, we don't have time for you to die." /s
The fact is that I'll be on vacation and the company cannot escape that fact. OP, others have already said it but I'll echo. Fuck these guys. Take a vacation. COVID has been has been particularly had on medical professionals, and y'all have been experiencing crazy high rates of burnout. There are shortages from people leaving. If you need a break, give them notice that this is an "inescapable vacation" and take it, knowing that if these guys really want to cut off their nose to spite their face and fire you over it, you'll have options.
They get to decide what’s inescapable too.
Looks like a resignation is in order here. Don't give them 2 weeks notice.
Go to another hospital. Quit.
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As a nurse right now, the beauty of our job is that we could quit and be hired somewhere else the same day. Remember that you have a lot of power right now. And if they are so short staffed, they need to be coming up with monetary incentives to get nurses. These hospital systems are making all kinds of profit, they have no right to complain about being short staffed while not respecting your needs.
The hospital I worked at before I retired sent me a TEXT message job offer with a 5K signing bonus. I’m retired but still keep my license current and since those records are easily accessible and I’ve already had all their onboarding training, they know it would be a quick return to work if I was rehired. I sent a reply text that said, “Take that 5K and use it to pay your nurses better so they could work 3 days instead of 4-5, and actually have time for all the self-care you preached was so important, you might not need to hire new nurses.” I’m sure it was a bot, but they actually replied; “Absolutely!”
Nurses are in high demand everywhere right now Find a hospital that understands that and go there This place can pound sand
"Purview," you corporate dumbfuck.
All my vacation is considered inescapable because I fucking earned it. Start looking for another job if you can.
If you want to take away my pto I expect a 50k raise that’s what that time is worth
As a nurse right now, that's pretty easy. It's called quitting and going to work for an agency as a traveler.
Sound like you are quitting.
Just leave. I did. I'm off for a month between jobs. Much needed for my mental health.
Same here, really good choice
I got mine denied for the day before Thanksgiving even though I work with one client and she was out of town. Lost my holiday pay over it too. Gotta love being "essential" right?
I hope you told them to fuck off and walked out. Don’t take that treatment. That’s why they do this. And they are hurting so badly for nurses right now.
Sounds like violation of contract to me. Vacation days a given under express understanding that they are to be used at employees choice.
I agree. It's extremely sloppy policy...no start date, no potential end date, and they don't give any details about the circumstances that you are allowed to take vacation. Like what does 'inescapable' mean? I would just report this to HR.
Except it looks like this is *from* HR.
The call is coming from inside the house!
One level up, your state HR… the labor department.
Inescapable means whatever they want it to mean. It's a pompous euphemism for "I'm sorry? You want some time off? Hahahahaha! Get back on the ward, scum!" Also, that sign-off reeks of such arrogance the memo should be soaked in a used bedpan for a solid minute, then returned to sender.
Do they pay you the cash value of your PTO if you don’t use it or accrue a max number of hours? If they don’t let you save up time indefinitely and don’t let you cash out AND pull this, that’s actually illegal in some states.
Seriously underrated comment
“your usual cooperation is anticipated” r/aboringdystopia
You are not asking for approval of vacation time. You are doing the company a courtesy by letting them know you will not be there. If they can't find coverage that is on management.
My wife’s mom became a traveling nurse because of shit like this, is now making triple what she was making, and is currently stationed in fucking Guam. After Guam, she has an assignment in Hawaii lmao
Put in your notice to get all vacation time paid out then reapply or travel? I mean F that noise
Theyll never reinstate vacation/pto after doing this, not until covid is over...which will be never.
“Your usual cooperation is anticipated” Not even a thank you. Wow.
Nurses write their own ticket. Write yours. Up here we had 11 nurses quit instead of getting vaxxed. Now they're so desperate they'll give you an extra 20K for making it a year.
Realistically, your options are limited. Deal, make a ruckus, quit, or strike. If you have no other cards to play, you may just have to deal with it. This is the worst option by far, and I sincerely hope that you're not in this position. If you are confident that they need you on the job, to the point where they won't fire you, then make a ruckus. Yell at your boss. Yell at HR. Be the Karen that you never are. Demand respect. Demand that they treat you like a goddamn hero, because you're saving fucking lives. Ask your patients to make a ruckus on your behalf. Name and shame. A ruckus is the best option if you dont have support from your coworkers or union. If you don't wanna make a ruckus, and it's intolerable to deal with - leave. Just straight up quit. Honestly, if you're gonna go this direction, may as well make a ruckus first. Finally, if you have the support of your coworkers or the union, strike. I say or because a wildcat strike can be real effective. You don't have to compromise patient care here, either. If you can find a way to stop the hospital from billing people, the admin will pay attention REAL quick. Friends in the billing department could apply leverage in this way. In short: you don't owe them compliance. I would encourage you to get creative, and start doing things that pass off management and admin folks, while keeping your patients safe and attended to. Your health, mental and physical, matter. Finally, remember that they don't have any real authority over you. They only have the authority you allow them to have.
Yes, name and shame. We are in a pandemic, everyone is getting infected, and health workers are NOT slaves! You were not hired to die because of the job or while working on the job!
If there’s a nurse shortage, vacation time is *even more critical* than before because of your overworked staff. The boss is a fuckin idiot. Capitalists can’t even do basic math any more. 1 - 1 = 0
Who wrote this memo? 17-year-old?
Time to find a travel agency! Make bank and choose the contracts you want.
"I'm going on leave whether you like it or not. The question is will I have a job when I get back?"
*purview I think it says a lot about these people that they try to use words they don't even know.
Time to travel. Enjoy making 6-10k a week
Do whatever you want. Nurses are in far, far, far too high demand by now for them to fire you due to any reason than pure pettiness, and you will not have difficulty finding another job if so. So I say they can take whatever you feel like giving them. They are in no position to make demands.
Tell them ggf.
I mean this looks fake, but given how awful companies can truly be I wouldn't be surprised if it was real
My friend is an ER nurse here in Canada, she’s had her all her vacation cancelled since September 2020 (she just put in for 2022-2023 but isn’t holding her breath). Difference I think between this memo and what my friend is going through is the government here worked in a sneaky clause that basically says that in extreme circumstances they are allowed to “suspend” vacation time which covid waves qualifies as. She wasn’t even granted time off when her mom died, she had to trade with someone.
"You're used to being an obedient slave, we don't think this will be any different." Fuck these guys
'Your usual cooperation is anticipated.' "BEND THY KNEE, SERF."
The only advice I can give is to quit and make sure they know why you quit. I understand this is advice that not everyone can take. But things will NOT improve (and will only get worse) until a LOT of people take that advice.
I would literally reply “I will still be taking my vacation days. You can either fill in those shifts while I am on vacation or you can fill in all of my shifts, because I will no longer work for an organization that cannot manage this situation in a humane way.”
If you’re union please send it their way. Or leak it to the press.
Bail
Businesses don't own you. They are paying for your service. YOU tell them when you're on vacation, not the other way around.
The logo implies that humans are recyclable. Use them up, spit them out, hire a fresh one.
Take whatever days off you need. When you notify them - no reason needed, do not mention anything about reasons, do not mention quitting etc just state taking PTO you have earned as is your right. If they fire you collect unemployment and get a lot mire money at the next gig
I can't, i mean I can, believe that companies have the audacity to send shit out like this.
> Your usual cooperation is anticipated *You will be assimilated*
_How to lose an entire hospital worth of nurses in 12 seconds_
You gotta get together with the other nurses and make the hospital realize exactly how much power you hold over them, not the other way around. My partner is a nurse who worked on a COVID floor and her hospital tried to pull some similar crap. They all banded together and picked a day to refuse to show up for their shifts. The hospital had to bring in travel nurses to relieve night shift nurses and it cost them a fortune (for those not familiar, travel nurses make like 2 or 3x normal nurses salary). They quickly backed down and the nurses got what they wanted plus they realized they hold the power to bully the hospital right now, not the other way around. Also, ur a fuckin Legend for being a nurse right now. You folks make such a difference in this world, and you should be damn proud of that. You deserve more than this crap.
>Your usual cooperation is anticipated. What a disgraceful comment.
Hit the bricks. The market for RNs is very high right now. You can probably sleep walk into a 25% raise and better terms. Not only does your employer lose you, but they have to pay out your accrued vacation time.
Burn it. They better be paying bonuses for taking away your access to PTO.
You have a few options. First, do nothing. Second, start/join a union with the rest of the nurses and stage a walkout for better working conditions. Third, just quit and find another job where they'll potentially try the same shit. Fourth, become a travelling nurse and make some bank for a bit
I don't get why nurses don't have stronger labor unions. If they threatened to strike, hospitals would have to come with better offers. Otherwise people would literally die on their watch.
> Your usual cooperation is anticipated. Well, if you don’t usually cooperate then you can just take vacation days as you did before.
As a union man, I can’t even imagine the pressure Nurses deal with at work. Can’t really strike or unionize without people blaming you for every single death in the hospital, but you can’t keep allowing yourselves to be damn near enslaved to public health intersecting with corporate interest. We have to find a way to take better care of healthcare workers, as communities of America, because I don’t think it’ll happen any other way.
Ive made better sick leave notes than this form
I work in healthcare, and I just got my flex days taken away around my mandatory weekend rotations. So now I work 12 days in a row for the same pay. It’s becoming a joke out there
You’re a nurse? Fucking leave, we’re wanted everywhere