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Post by vitg on Mar 13, 2008 0:25:18 GMT -5
Upshifted for the best rant I have read in a long while.
Top class stuff.
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Post by DeltaMustang65 on Mar 13, 2008 0:58:22 GMT -5
Upshifted you guys for being awesome enough to recognize the awesomeness of my little rant.
I could call them more names, but I honestly can't remember ALL of their faults. You should really see the people in charge at my job. I'm making none of this stuff up. I made fun of one of them with a nurse the other day, saying that I had no idea why one of them hated me, other than maybe I remind her of an old bf that dumped her deeply flawed ass.
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Post by ½ A Gram on Mar 13, 2008 1:09:30 GMT -5
Like i said, i know where you're coming form. my mom comes home at least twice a week with stories of how administration has no idea what they're doing.
For reference: She has sometimes upwards of 40 people to look after, due to shortstaffedness. The administration, however, thinks things are going fantastic.
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Post by DeltaMustang65 on Mar 13, 2008 1:30:32 GMT -5
Oh, you know they're loving that. Think of how much money they're saving thanks to your mom doing the work of 10 nurses. Of course things are going fantastic...
On the other hand, once a nurse gives a patient the wrong dose of something, things are all bad. Suddenly it's the nurses fault that a mistake was made while teh adminz were tossing aside regulations in order to pocket a little extra money.
These penny-pinching mothereffers need to be hanged. They're the ones that are putting patients lives at risk, not the nurses that they just LOOOVE to scapegoat.
Using my hospital as an example, perhaps we should begin refusing to treat all the druggies and drunks that we get in the ER that usually have no insurance. This is part of the reason that hospitals are going under, esp where I live. Either it's stupid shit they come in for cuz they're too high or wasted to know, or it's gunshots or knife wounds from shit gone bad.
And while the hospital treats the people whether they can pay or not (or even if they never INTEND to pay or even TRY), that money has to come from somewhere. Guess who gets to foot the bill.
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Post by vitg on Mar 13, 2008 1:39:26 GMT -5
"Oh, you know they're loving that. Think of how much money they're saving thanks to your mom doing the work of 10 nurses. Of course things are going fantastic...
On the other hand, once a nurse gives a patient the wrong dose of something, things are all bad. Suddenly it's the nurses fault that a mistake was made while teh adminz were tossing aside regulations in order to pocket a little extra money.
These penny-pinching mothereffers need to be hanged. They're the ones that are putting patients lives at risk, not the nurses that they just LOOOVE to scapegoat".
This is exactly what is happening here as well.
Damn those MF bureaucrats, I just some of those efferes get sick sometime.
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Post by ½ A Gram on Mar 13, 2008 16:17:15 GMT -5
which is why universal health care is a good thing, boys.
Delta: My mom will clock 15-18 miles per 12 hour shift. I don't know about you, but that's a long damned distance.
Not to mention, she does things a 'more qualified' nurse should be doing....oh, that place is breaking oh so many labour laws. Not to mention, for all she does, she still makes, what? 10 or 11 bucks an hour...Honestly, some days, i just wanna smack those dumbass board members.
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Post by nightmare75 on Mar 13, 2008 17:13:23 GMT -5
You'd think a shitty union like that would either get voted away or lose members. And you'd think people would be more apt to try and fight something like that than they seem to be. You are correct, what they're doing for you is absolutely unreasonable. A union should be absolutely on the side of the people they represent, working for them and representing them fairly.
My dad works in a place that has a union. If something happens that's even remotely inconvenient to any ONE of the members, the union WILL file a grievance and beat the horse until it's dead, cold, and buried. It's a gigantic pain in the neck for the administration, almost to the point where serious grievances don't get as much attention as they should. I can't understand how a union could be anything but that unless your union representative is on the hospital's (unofficial) payroll or is not represented by the same union. Either way it's ridiculous and needs to be fixed.
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Post by ½ A Gram on Mar 13, 2008 17:40:19 GMT -5
unions are 1 of two things.
Overzealous, or useless to the point of idiocy.
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Post by IGNIGNOC on Mar 14, 2008 3:47:15 GMT -5
Actually, Pred, I'm afraid I'd have to correct you on that assertion that universal medical care would solve these problems. That is unfortunately the end result of the governmental involvement that got us here in the first place. Unions are a governmental entity (even though they are not controlled by THE gov't but a gov't to themselves). They're the source of the problem.
The days when people excelled at their jobs because they loved what they do are long gone. Unfortunately, those who begin at a career that they love soon become disenchanted (like Matt) with the diseased system and the pustules that run the whole thing. Bringing even more governmental control into the equation will only amplify the lack of effort given by medical care personnel.
Unfortunately, people who generally work in the medical field (not all, mind you, but the majority) don't do it because they love healing the sick and caring for the wounded, but because of the paycheck. I say it is time for those who LOVE what they do to begin killing off those who simply sponge up the company's payroll while delivering work that can't even qualify as half-assed (that gives FAR too much credit).
I personally love my job. I hate the shit-hawks to fail their way through it, because here I am doing my absolute best to give a fine, polished, yea even perfect finished product, yet there are assholes who make nearly as much as I do who just throw it together in some helter-skelter manner and call it "good." It's not "good," dipshit. It looks like ass, and my 9mm agrees with me.
So, gentlemen and ladies (if Amber and Meg ever stumble into this), let us take back the pride in our jobs and start wiping out the worthless sponges soaking up our free capital.
Cry HAVOK, and let slip the dogs of KILLING THEM WHERE THEY STAND™ (slightly modified Shakespeare)
We shall call this Plan: AWESOME, and we shall control the univarse.
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Post by ½ A Gram on Mar 14, 2008 12:48:41 GMT -5
At least before we are all arrested.
BTW: Upshift'd for fantastic plan!
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Post by ciscokid on Mar 14, 2008 13:24:48 GMT -5
"I'm afraid I'd have to correct you on that assertion that universal medical care would solve these problems."
Lots of other countries figured out how to make it work.
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Post by ½ A Gram on Mar 14, 2008 14:42:48 GMT -5
Canada in particular. We have a good system here. unfortunately, a couple of provinces are moving towards privatized, but, what can ya do?
People who love their job work hard, and don't mind the pay as much, but instead love the job. the wonderfully cheap administration staff get to know that, and pay them as little as possible.
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Post by Lupin_IV on Mar 14, 2008 22:51:05 GMT -5
Universal healthcare - bad.
If I need a tooth drilled, I want it capped the same day dammit!
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Post by ½ A Gram on Mar 14, 2008 23:16:19 GMT -5
I've never had problems with the dental plans we have here....maybe your dentists suck?
ahah
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Post by Lupin_IV on Mar 14, 2008 23:29:08 GMT -5
My statement is based of of what I'm told happens quite frequently under both the British and Japanese healthcare systems.
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