Underpaid Workers, Empty Promises

[u/LuckyBastard001]

[u/MyrrhSlayter]

They've said for decades there is a nursing shortage. There isn't. There is only a shortage of healthcare companies that want to pay living wages to nurses.

Most new nurses quit within the first year of work, because they quickly get overworked and the pay isn't worth staying.

[u/Cocheeeze → u/MyrrhSlayter]

I’ve been working as a nurse for 16 years now and I’d say this is accurate. It seems like by the time I finally learn all the new peoples’ names, they’ve already decided this work isn’t for them. I’ve also had a handful of student nurses who have straight up told me they’re going to finish their degree because they’ve already put so much time and effort into it and it looks good on a resume, but as soon as they graduate they’re going to find something else. I don’t blame them. I have fantasized about quitting more times than I can count.

[u/MyrrhSlayter → u/Cocheeeze]

I started nursing around 2007. All through class all they talked about was the massive nursing shortage. It made us feel like we were going to be needed/valued when we graduated. We weren't.

While working as a nurse, every year we had a fresh class of new nurses who always mentioned how they were told there was a shortage of nurses and how they were ready to make a difference with that. They didn't.

Every year, raises were consistently less than a dollar a year. Many new nurses quit. They quit when they realized there wasn't a shortage when trying to find a new nursing job. Just same shit, same shit pay.

My guess is that the greedy healthcare systems push this 'shortage' message to get more people into nursing school. Then every year, they have a fresh batch of new nurses to abuse and underpay for as long as they can.

[u/normalice0]

whoever invented the idea of going the extra mile almost certainly didn't do so themselves.

[u/doktor_wankenstein → u/normalice0]

Probably the same people that ask the staff to put in a "hundred and ten percent".

[u/maoussepatate]

I work in a ER veterinary hospital.

We struggle so much to get / keep assistants and technicians. The requirements (experience, knowledge, skill) are pretty high and the pay doesn’t reflect that at all.

But worry not, corporate people get paid a shit load for not participating the slightest in creating our income.

[u/coveness13 → u/maoussepatate]

Not to mention the burnout and staggering suicide rate. It is not appreciated what that industry goes through.

[u/maoussepatate → u/coveness13]

It’s heart breaking to see that people who are so passionate get burned out so badly.
After 2-4 years of schooling to be a technician, the average technician leaves the field after 5 years, definitely.

I’m on year 7 and starting school in a month to work in a different field. I expect to leave in the next 6-12months

[u/TheVoidWantsCuddles → u/maoussepatate]

Yep. Worked in the field for 12 years and quitting to go back to school. 2 year degree and I’ll be making double what I currently make…with 12 years of experience. I know a tech who has been a CVT for 30 years and she only makes $32/hour and we live in a pretty HCOL area.

[u/Cayumigaming]

Greed, that’s it. Just greed. You know.. profit, growth. Everything to make that last line increase.

[u/no_f-s_given]

lmao at people censoring the word fuck

[u/insolent_kiwi → u/no_f-s_given]

Fuck 🦆

[u/incide666]

Person A: "Why is thing?"

Person B: "This is why thing."

OP: "Whoa! What a murder!"

[u/Gloomy-Tank9295]

And those 5 people don't do the right thing and strike

[u/Jamesgweny → u/Gloomy-Tank9295]

It's almost like they need money to eat or something