RL rant

So this is what a doctor told the other registry nurse in our department the other day:

"Oh, god help you if you're good and you have a work ethic, at this place. You're doomed! Now, if you don't work, or you're incompetent, you'll be fine at this place! They'll take great care of you. But if you're good, and you work? They'll just shit on you and load you up with work, until you can't take it anymore and you fuck up, or you quit."

Now, this is coming from a doctor. If that's how a doctor feels -- with all the rank they can pull -- just imagine how the nurses are treated, and how they feel.

Consultants are nosing around my boss and my boss' boss and our department. And of course they want no input from rank and file nurses; they won't even talk to us. (But, by all means, administration: keep sending those pointless "Town Hall Meeting" emails, like you think we're actually going to attend them, as if we believe that they are anything than official mouthpieces of administration propaganda; we're not stupid enough to believe they're actually intended for two way communication or that anyone will actually listen to us, especially not if we've been through this shit at other hospitals before.)

But if the consultans would talk to us, I would tell them:( Read more... )

But, I know these consultants (hacks) aren't going to listen to us and we won't be allowed to talk to them anyway.

Our best hope is that the consultants do what consultants are supposed to do: eliminate waste and unnecessary spending, and fire middle managers... like my boss' boss.

More tomorrow or later this week, when I hopefully have more time/less stress.