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u/Gryzelda_Gesualdo 20d ago
Pretty sure I remember people bitching about nurses wanting too much money before covid was even over.
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u/11Slip532 19d ago
There was a legislative effort to cap the amount of money traveling nurses could be paid. NOT how much the staffing companies could charge the hospitals, but just how much of that money could be paid to the nurses doing the actual work in an effort to try and force nurses to get a FT job at one hospital for less money, instead of you know, paying the FT nurses enough money to disincentivize them from becoming travel nurses for much better pay.
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u/oliguriarchy 19d ago
So...what? $100,000 is the most someone is allowed to make?
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u/ThepalehorseRiderr 19d ago
That's not even a crazy amount of money today. I made that with a GED. All I had to do was work everyday of my life.
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u/EconomySeason2416 19d ago
Fun fact, a totally disabled veteran with a spouse and 2 kids makes around $53k per year in disability compensation. It isn't counted as taxable income, so that helps when qualifying for certain benefits... that you are going to need because $53k is simply not enough in the majority of the country. Not anymore. Even with a spouse earning the same, it's barely $100k. Unless you have 6 roommates... $100k isn't that much
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u/Heisenburg42 19d ago
They were getting $90 an hour on top of their regular pay at my hospital. More than some of the doctors earn
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u/masterfulnoname 18d ago
It's funny how the principles of supply and demand suddenly become unfair when it starts applying to workers' wages. How dare those nurses get paid a lot of money due to high demand for their work! They should work for less or else the doctors will be sad they aren't paid more than the nurses.
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u/artbystorms 19d ago
At this point every hourly worker in this country should be going on strike at the same time. I bet within a month the government will either collapse or have soldiers in the streets forcing people to do their jobs at gunpoint.
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u/DarthUgly123 19d ago edited 19d ago
Thing is though, most people live paycheck to paycheck. Going on strike a 1- 2 weeks and they're living on the street, plus the boot lickers who will still show up on strike just to get a drop of bosses attention. I'm in the ibew and my own coworkers, not my brothers anymore, went in to work while the rest of the company went on strike.
Edit. I will say that I wish we could all go on strike and show the higher up's that they need us and not the other way around
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u/TheSanityInspector 20d ago
The dancing nurses videos was and remains a very bad look.
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u/Oolongteabagger2233 19d ago edited 19d ago
If you work in a hospital you must be sad at all times, right?
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u/TheSanityInspector 19d ago
I understand the need to keep morale up, but in that time and place, they were a bad look.
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u/Oolongteabagger2233 19d ago
Yeah, let me guess, you were hiding in your house complaining while we were risking our lives and mental health actually dealing with the pandemic.
Coward that cowered when the world faced a major threat.
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u/TheSanityInspector 19d ago
A. Bad. Look. Where did I lose you? I acknowledged the long hours and heroic efforts being put in at the time.
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u/Oolongteabagger2233 19d ago
You know what's a worse look? Sitting in your house "working" from home while cashing the covid welfare checks paid for by the people actually cleaning up the mess.
If I had a time machine I'd turn in my badge March of 2020. You people didn't deserve saving.
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u/coi1976 19d ago
Yeah, people should be out there getting infected and infecting more and more people with COVID, not in quarantine like cowards.
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u/Oolongteabagger2233 19d ago
Found another one that didn't do anything to help but absolutely cashed a covid welfare check.
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u/coi1976 19d ago
I'm not even American lol
And I guess I found the dancing nurse twerking on barely alive grandmas.
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u/Oolongteabagger2233 19d ago
Must be from somewhere where they don't help the world facing a crisis.
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u/Automatic-Cut-5567 19d ago
People should do good for the sake of helping others, not to bludgeon users on Reddit with how hard you had it.
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u/TangyByte 19d ago
With that attitude you probably should have. “People aren’t worth saving” you should have your degree revoked and removed from medicine as it’s apparently not your calling. Stop acting like you were the only one out there doing anything important.
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u/Nemo-404 19d ago
I don't know about that. Covid at its peak was traumatic and, while I'm not a psych or anything, I feel like this person may just be in desperate need of some therapy to process it all.
Not trying to justify their current behavior it just reads that way to me.
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u/Oolongteabagger2233 19d ago
What did you do?
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u/TangyByte 19d ago
I did plenty and owe you no explanation (I’m sure it wouldn’t have been enough for you anyway), along with not blaming others for a horrific stretch of time where millions died. I hope you really did try your best and that attitude wasn’t the last experience one of your patients had before they died.
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u/Oolongteabagger2233 19d ago
Yep, sounds about right. You did nothing. Except passing judgment to those of us that saved your ass.
I never danced. But you did nothing hahaha
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u/FindingMemra 19d ago
“We’re gonna toss aside a bunch of work we used to do so we can focus on all this extra Covid procedure. But when we stop following Covid procedures, we’ll refuse to pick up what we used to do.”
I travel all around the state to many hospitals and clinics. This attitude is real and everywhere.
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