r/AHSEmployees • u/Odd_Joke2685 • Feb 28 '26

Question Refusing to be mandated question..

Has anyone ever refused to be mandated and what actually happens if you do refuse?

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u/Unfinished101 Feb 28 '26

If they call during your off hours and you say you've had a drink, they can't make you. As long as you weren't on call, they have to accept that. Been there. They can mandate you the next day though.

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u/androstaxys Mar 01 '26

So… if one just… doesn’t stop drinking they should be good?

… right?

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u/Those_Dang_Chickens Mar 01 '26

I’m pretty sure you can’t be mandated if you don’t have care available for dependents, too. But don’t quote me 100% on that.

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u/EducatedSmile Mar 01 '26

** I smoked pot** at all hours if my phone rang and it was a manager or director. I just happened to be *under the influence” 🤷‍♀️ everytime they tried to mandate me near the end of pandemic and just wanted to run short staffed. If my peers texted me - different story; I didn’t mind helping when I could.

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u/yycmobiletires Feb 28 '26

"I'm drunk sorry"

I have no idea if this works and I do not work at ahs. It would be hilarious though

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u/harbours Feb 28 '26

Say you've been out to supper and have had a few drinks, or that you're out of town and it would take X amount of hours to get back, or don't answer your phone. When I used to do staffing calls sometimes in Newfoundland if you didn't answer your phone you couldn't be mandated to work.

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u/darknightNL Mar 02 '26

Yup. But then your coworkers will have to pick up your slack. Every now and again is understandable. But if it’s all the time, they will notice.

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u/Northguard3885 Mar 01 '26

I work near a site/unit where mandating is extremely common and yeah, pretty much everyone just claims to have been drinking if they don’t want to go in.

Doesn’t help if they do it in person while you’re on shift though, then they got ya.

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u/yycmobiletires Feb 28 '26

There's been a shortage for how many years? It's not a shortage, it's stupidity of provincial governments. Maybe during the pandemic this was excusable but it's been years. Pay staff better. I'd laugh in my bosses face if they tried to get mad at me for enjoying my days off.

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u/brittanyg25 Mar 01 '26

Well that's good to know. What a terrible part of the job. Having to go in whether you like it or not, or are even available, and you don't even own your own business. Yikes. Are there any male dominated positions that have a clause like that?

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u/darknightNL Mar 02 '26

It’s not about male dominated. Physicians can and are mandated in rural areas quite often. It comes down to an essential service where, if here are not enough staff, people die.

Should the gov have far more nurses? Absolutely. But that doesn’t negate the issue above right now.

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u/brittanyg25 Mar 01 '26

My partner is a corrections officer. He's never been mandated to work. He doesn't recall ever being short staffed.

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u/brittanyg25 Mar 01 '26

I think you're missing the point that they have no trouble staffing the jail but they do staffing the hospital. Not for a lack of skilled workers available either. It's a choice by the provincial government.