That worked out well

[Vegas Halo Fan]

As most of you know, I retired from the Medical Division of the Nevada Department of Corrections in early June. I hired on with a hospice company and started work pretty much immediately. It seemed like a good company, with friendly employees and a manageable workload. That all changed in mid-June, when two nurses abruptly resigned. I soon found out why.

My caseload went from seven to 20 literally overnight. I went from taking call twice a month plus one weekend to covering half the month. One Sunday I put 172 miles on my car for callout visits. I was getting called out all hours of the night. They were scheduling the nursing staff for so many appointments that we had to finish our visit reports after we got home. They would pull us off appointments to process intakes, then add the missed appointments to our days off. When I started, we had geographic territories. Patients were then assigned with no regard to location,  so each of my appointments was 30 minutes or more from the last. I had lost three hours out of the day before I even left home. I was eating drive-through food in the car while driving to the next appointment, because I didn't have time to stop. Virtually every waking hour had something to do with the job - not what I was looking for after retirement. Management didn't care about the impact on the employees as long as the work got done. If anything was behind, I was pressured to finish it - and a lot of stuff was, with triple the workload.  My boss, who had never been a manager before (and it showed), responded "What do you want me to do about it?" to anything that was brought up. She shot down all plans to reduce the workload.

My plan was to do this for a couple of years, pay off all my bills and then never work again. My sister, an APRN, warned me that I was headed for a heart attack if I kept pushing myself that hard. I took heed. I did something that I have only done once before in my life. I quit without notice. Two days after I quit, I got the first full night's sleep that I had gotten in over six weeks. Now I am looking for something per diem.

Edited August 8, 2022 by Vegas Halo Fan

[Blarg]

I was thinking if I won the lottery I'd give about a twenty minute notice. 

[Jason]

10 minutes ago, Blarg said:

I was thinking if I won the lottery I'd give about a twenty minute notice. 

Mighty generous of you 

[Jason]

Best to find something stress free without an exorbitant amount responsibilities. 

[Blarg]

33 minutes ago, Jason said:

Mighty generous of you 

It takes that much time to upload the virus that erases everyone's workstations and server. 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

23 hours ago, Blarg said:

I was thinking if I won the lottery I'd give about a twenty minute notice. 

At one correctional facility where I worked, we had an ongoing pool to buy tickets for Mega Lotto and Powerball. We discussed what would happen if by some chance we hit. We would have first called the Chief of Nursing and told him that he had a staffing problem at our facility, because none of us were coming to work again - ever. Then we were going to charter a limousine to take us all to Sacramento to hand deliver the ticket.

Edited August 9, 2022 by Vegas Halo Fan

[HanfordGuy]

2 hours ago, Blarg said:

I was thinking if I won the lottery I'd give about a twenty minute notice. 

20??? I’d just give 2…these

 

[T.G.]

5 hours ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

As most of you know, I retired from the Medical Division of the Nevada Department of Corrections in early June. I hired on with a hospice company and started work pretty much immediately. It seemed like a good company, with friendly employees and a manageable workload. That all changed in mid-June, when two nurses abruptly resigned. I soon found out why.

My caseload went from seven to 20 literally overnight. I went from taking call twice a month plus one weekend to covering half the month. One Sunday I put 172 miles on my car for callout visits. I was getting called out all hours of the night. They were scheduling the nursing staff for so many appointments that we had to finish our visit reports after we got home. They would pull us off appointments to process intakes, then add the missed appointments to our days off. When I started, we had geographic territories. Patients were then assigned with no regard to location,  so each of my appointments was 30 minutes or more from the last. I had lost three hours out of the day before I even left home. I was eating drive-through food in the car while driving to the next appointment, because I didn't have time to stop. Virtually every waking hour had something to do with the job - not what I was looking for after retirement. Management didn't care about the impact on the employees as long as the work got done. If anything was behind, I was pressured to finish it - and a lot of stuff was, with triple the workload.  My boss, who had never been a manager before (and it showed), responded "What do you want me to do about it?" to anything that was brought up. She shot down all plans to reduce the workload.

My plan was to do this for a couple of years, pay off all my bills and then never work again. My sister, an APRN, warned me that I was headed for a heart attack if I kept pushing myself that hard. I took heed. I did something that I have only done once before in my life. I quit without notice. Two days after I quit, I got the first full night's sleep that I had gotten in over six weeks. Now I am looking for something per diem.

Sorry to hear that. Glad to hear you decided to leave that nightmare and say goodbye to that stress. No job is worth that.

Good luck in your search for something else.

Edited August 8, 2022 by T.G.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

11 hours ago, T.G. said:

Sorry to hear that. Glad to hear you decided to leave that nightmare and say goodbye to that stress. No job is worth that.

Good luck in your search for something else.

I contacted an agency that provided nurses to the Department of Corrections when we got extra help for COVID screening. They can place me in an assignment that I want during days and shifts that I want. No more bringing work home. No more callouts in the middle of the night - or on call at all. I probably won't ever work full time again, at least not in nursing.

Edited August 8, 2022 by Vegas Halo Fan

[ten ocho recon scout]

20 hours ago, Blarg said:

It takes that much time to upload the virus that erases everyone's workstations and server. 

Love it.

One of my favorite things to do at work is to synch my phone to the cars. Then when I'm parked next to guys, shooting the shit, randomly take over their car radio and play porn. Watch them freak out like "wtf is that! I was listening to KFI!"

And I look at them disgusted like "what the hell are you doing over there??"

[Brandon]

1 hour ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Love it.

One of my favorite things to do at work is to synch my phone to the cars. Then when I'm parked next to guys, shooting the shit, randomly take over their car radio and play porn. Watch them freak out like "wtf is that! I was listening to KFI!"

And I look at them disgusted like "what the hell are you doing over there??"

 I love doing this on airplanes and syncing to peoples earphones and playing random music. It will never get old watching them stand up or looking around.

[ten ocho recon scout]

5 hours ago, Brandon said:

 I love doing this on airplanes and syncing to peoples earphones and playing random music. It will never get old watching them stand up or looking around.

Lol... I didn't realize that was possible...

 

(Makes note to try it)

[Brandon]

37 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

Lol... I didn't realize that was possible...

 

(Makes note to try it)

Yeah, when you go into connect…..for instance, I bounce between my phone and iPad while also sometimes switching between AirPods. I noticed they all pop up like Wi-Fi networks. I started picking random ones and playing music or whatever movie was on my iPad. Fucking hysterical.