smart guys who avoid drama have this ability I lack: to do their job, even if it means working more than an established, well connected lazy group of people. Smart guys do their 30 minute pause and then keep working, even if the lazier ones have longer pauses.
Maybe you’ve accepted that life is unfair, or that a job is a job and while you’re at the workplace and being paid, your employer can do with you what he wants, even if that means some of your coworkers have it easier than you and let you the most physically demanding tasks so they get the easy ones.
I am incapable of being like this:
Nursing is a physically demanding job and mentally draining as well: an even larger number of patients will complain about everything and are convinced you’re there to be their private therapist for 2 hours, forgetting I have other patients, patients are nowadays fatter with more comorbidities, they sometimes fight you, the one with dementia wants to get up and leave the ward, even if he’s there because he fell at home and broke his orbita, they question you, they blame you for things you cannot control or don’t decide, they verbally abuse you, they sometimes don’t speak English…
If I ignore the lazy ones, pause for 30 minutes and then work chances are I’ll be calling in sick the next day, because I work till my back and legs ache, it is simply not sustainable. I’m the one walking the ward side to side.
Furthermore, I don’t know if you understand how draining and frustrating is to see a group of people who are well connected and know they cannot be fired to play on their phones while you, the new guy there, are held to a different standard and are expected to work, physically, continuously, bar that 30 minute pause.
That’s why to me this is personal: the more they lazy around the more I have to work, the more back pain I get, the more frustrated I get, the more I hate it there.
You may successfully separate the people from the job and care more about the job than the people there, but I cannot get pass this, and I don’t feel I’m in the wrong.
Maybe I’m entitled? Am I wrong? AITA?
Reminds me of a similar post from a few days ago / (link to post on OP’s instance). Maybe some of the same responses would fit here.
Am I missing something or is OP just posting the same question again in the same community a few days later? How new…
Or just copying and pasting, and then changing up the wording, a little bit to make it look like it was somebody else’s post
Thats from the same user. They ask similar questions constantly and get similar responses. Wonder if they ever actually read and try to apply them.
When I took the job I agreed to pay, shift, benefits. I stick by that deal. Its between me and the employer. If there is going to be a problem its generally my employer wants more without compensation and rarely with some reduction in compensation usually benefits.
You’re only wrong because your job has poor management and you should be finding a new one.
If you were to do all the tasks that you typically do in a day with NO OTHER coworkers around (with a 30 min break) do you think you would feel better about your job?
Don’t consider things like less nurses means more patients, just assume it’s taken care of, and it’s just the normal amount of running around that you typically do now.
I create automations that validate everyone’s work against certain standards of practice that the team and business agrees upon. They then are obligated to at least invest a baseline of effort.
