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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/SunshotDestiny on 2025-02-24 02:14:42+00:00.
I work in healthcare, and I work as a patient companion. In short, if a patient needs someone in the room for 1:1 care and/or supervision that is my job. I have been doing this for a few years now and have been injured and even have had my life threatened a few times now. To the point I have chronic pain in my back from how often It got strained through patient care, at times in preventing injury to my patient.
When the hospital is short staffed we also get floated to the floor to work, usually as extra bodies in case a patient comes in needing or developing a need for a companion. None of us like it, and I have been vocal about it mainly because at times they try to make us watch high risk patients AND work the floor at the same time. Which hasn't had an incident, yet, but we have had numerous close calls. Tonight, however I felt like crap, and debated all day in about calling in. Mainly because I might need a call in day in the future with school or with all the illnesses going around. But I felt good enough to work as a companion.
Except that isn't what they wanted of me. Not only was I going to be split between two floors, but on floors I hadn't worked before and where being a CNA would be much more intense. I talked to the nursing supervisor and told her I was feeling sick and that I wouldn't be much use on the floor as I was. But working as a companion I could do. That since I work every weekend I would be willing to be first up for the floor next time. She told me it was my turn and I could ether work it or call out, so I called out. This pissed her off and she said if I didn't want to work the floor ever I might as well just not be a CNA.
Any other job and I would say kiss my ass. But medical care always has max patients to the least amount of staff, and makes anyone who gets sick or injured feel like crap for calling in. That's why I am hoping to get out of it come may when I hopefully graduate with my degree. But as of tonight, I am torn between being pissed off about always being treated like I have to be some living robot of empathy to everyone but anytime I need some consideration I am told to fuck off.
All corporate owned jobs suck, but medicine just makes you feel less than human while wringing you for all you are worth.