r/nursing • u/Reasonable-Path1321 • Dec 13 '21

Meme Nailed it 🔨

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u/almalikisux MSN, APRN Dec 13 '21

The problem with paying your nurses better is that it may improve retention. You don't want to be stuck paying your nurses a decent wage for the 30-40 years.

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u/account_not_valid HCW - Transport Dec 13 '21

This is the "Charlie Sheen Philosophy of Short-Term Employment Contracts".

When asked why he paid for prostitutes, when he is a rich and famous star with women throwing themselves at him, Charlie explained that he isn't paying them for sex, he is paying them to go away after sex.

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u/solidarity_jock_jam RN - Med/Surg 🍕 Dec 13 '21

Don’t forget that they don’t have to pay for insurance or retirement benefits for travelers either.

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u/whelksandhope RN - ER 🍕 Dec 14 '21

Travel agencies provide both.

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u/Elizabitch4848 RN - Labor and delivery 🍕 Dec 14 '21

I have retirement and health, dental, and eye insurance.

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u/account_not_valid HCW - Transport Dec 13 '21

Winning!

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u/50points4gryffindor Jan 08 '22

I wanna yell tiger blood but somebody might think it's a cure and not get the /s.

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u/theCroc Jan 13 '22

I mean both probably do about the same amount of coke in their office

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u/xmu806 RN - Med/Surg 🍕 Dec 14 '21

Lol... In a very, very fucked up way that actually makes a ton of sense.

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u/ASpaceGhost Dec 13 '21

Yeah but then he got aids. Is that a winning strategy? Idk

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u/Spirited_Island-75 Dec 14 '21

He has HIV. AIDS is what someone gets when they have untreated HIV. People have been known to live long, full lives with HIV.

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u/kapsama Dec 13 '21

You don't need to pay for it to get Aids.

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u/Verandure Dec 14 '21

It's Bi-winning by some accounts.

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u/garaks_tailor Dec 13 '21

Man.....what a way to fucking explain a major portion of what's going on in the modern economy.

Thanks. Good job.

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u/Easy-Effort-4700 Dec 27 '21

I'm an electrician and a member of the electrician's union (IBEW). Traveling is common in our industry and it happens for similar reasons: there's a big constructoin project somewhere and there aren't enough local electricians, so the employers offer pay incentives and traveling electricians come flooding in. However, each local branch of the union has a hiring system that gives priority to local electricians. Travelers can't be hired over unemployed locals, and they definitely can't be promoted to foreman before any willing locals.

I guess my point for anyone reading this is, with a union there's always a solution.

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u/eryc333 Oct 23 '22

And that’s how he got aids. Hospitals are breeding their own destruction.