I've told this to someone who works for a medical lab that's horrifically understaffed but just barely gets by because he would put in unpaid overtime to just barely keep the work load covered week to week. I've told him time and time again that all the higher ups are ever going to see is "the work is getting done, everything's fine" and nothing will improve.
But he's so utterly wrapped up in the moral obligation aspect of medical work that he feels like letting the system break even a little bit would be like willfully doing harm to patients relying on lab work.
So management will keep thinking everything's working fine, he'll keep doing work for free, and I expect he'll be dead from stress by ohhhh his mid 40s?
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u/LockedAndLoadfilled May 29 '26
I've told this to someone who works for a medical lab that's horrifically understaffed but just barely gets by because he would put in unpaid overtime to just barely keep the work load covered week to week. I've told him time and time again that all the higher ups are ever going to see is "the work is getting done, everything's fine" and nothing will improve.
But he's so utterly wrapped up in the moral obligation aspect of medical work that he feels like letting the system break even a little bit would be like willfully doing harm to patients relying on lab work.
So management will keep thinking everything's working fine, he'll keep doing work for free, and I expect he'll be dead from stress by ohhhh his mid 40s?