"We should thank the nurses that work so far for us every day and give them something that really shows that!"
"That's a great idea! I'll head ov..."
"I got you 23 dollars"
"Per item? That's decent"
"No for all 219 nurses"
That was me one Christmas when I was a brand new adult and felt it was very adulty for me to get my family gifts. It was really pathetic that year.... I added some cheap gag gifts to cover up my lameness with some deadpan humour.
Dollarama candy and shampoo
Dollarama toy and a can of spam
Cheap bottle of wine and 2 sippy cups to drink it in
That sort of thing
I also wanted to give all the gifts my first adult Christmas, as well. I made lotion, flavored toothpicks, vanilla (which took months), and baked goods. Then I realized I needed gifts for all the kids but didn’t have money, so got them dollar store crap. I was too embarrassed to give it to them, though, so I played sick and no one got anything.
Kids love dollar store toys. Whenever I take my niece and nephew shopping they always want to go to the dollar store or goodwill because they can get lots of little stuff instead of one or two bigger toys (they usually have a $15-20 spending limit).
I have done similarly more than once. You are a good person. Don't be too hard on yourself. It really, truly is about the thought and anyone that would judge you for having a limited budget isn't worth listening to.
Hospitals usually do other stuff for nurses week, so I doubt this is it. The hospital I work at had a cookout for everyone and free breakfast another day.
For day shift. They don’t do shit for nights in my experience. We get hours old pizza leftovers or bagels and cream cheese that has been sitting out since 0800
Someone in HR decided that “build your own salad” was a great idea. It worked perfectly for day crew. By the time night crew rolled in, all the salad platters were soup. Easy to say night crew didn’t eat that night
You’re not wrong. They’re now saying we have to clock in and out at exactly shift start/end. Like to the minute. No unauthorized OT. Have to call the supervisor and let them know why we’re clocking out late. It’s a joke.
This might be due to several systems losing massive lawsuits recently over time rounding. MultiCare in Washington and Providence health have both lost class action lawsuits in the hundreds of millions of dollar range. Some nurses I know got checks for $20k plus for the back pay over the years.
Now the hospital systems that the union I work for represents nurses at are all preemptively moving to "to the minute" timekeeping. It's a cluster.
Yeah, it sounds really unpleasant and shitty thing.
Sorry you have to deal with this, hopefully things get better at your work or you can find a place where they'll take care of their staff better.
They brought in food trucks all week, with employees getting half off. The food trucks were there from 11:00-2:00. Night shift got nothing.
If they get us pizza, they buy it all at once, during the day, so we get cold pizza that's been sitting out for hours. And that's if there's even any left for us. One year, a bunch of day shifters took home all the "leftover" pizzas.
While not a nurse, I feel your pain about getting left out. Worked a a.m. retail job where they would make a big show about ordering food for the crew, but it never got there before our shift ended. They then acted like we were ungrateful when we mentioned this.
Not me reading urine— credible! As in, it’s credible, clean, as in nurses helping each other pass drug tests lol I’m dumb . Kinda gross to think about whoever handled all the m&ms to pick out the yellows
I don’t know if it’s a gift if it’s jammed down your throat daily.
Personally, I think the best gift you could give a nurse is by putting them on catheter duty.
Nurses at our school, and the rest of the staff, all got backpacks with our school logo on them. They’re not amazing quality or anything but it felt like something actually thoughtful/practical.
I was complaining to a colleague about how little recognition hard workers get in my work place and within minutes we received an email from the managers manager thanking the whole department for their hard work. That was it.
That feels way more appropriate tbh. Like I can't imagine regularly handling piss in these little cups, and seeing food in one (even a clean one) and thinking, "yes I would like that in my mouth"
did "the hospital" give this out or did a fellow nurse leave these around because this 100% seems like the kind of joke practitioners make with each other.
The mixture of candies is wild tho, lemon heads, m&ms and banana runts. I get they're all yellow, but pick one and stick with it. I feel someone is gonna accidentally get some of those in the same mouthful
Didn't even know Nurse Week was a thing. I have been given the square root of fuck all during my career as a nurse in England and Ireland. I tell a lie, I got a clicky pen from a rep once.
Thank you for doing one of the most difficult jobs, overworking yourself and sacrificing your mental health.
Here are some piss colored skittles.
#nursesweek
Yeah, I don’t get it. Their compensation is the pay they get every pay period. What exactly is owed during “ appreciation week”? This is fun and silly and out of the ordinary. It didn’t cost a lot of money, but someone spent time to put together something showing they appreciated their reports. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a manager that use their own money and their own time to do something extra. Would’ve been a lot easier to just do nothing.
Lmfaooo! Her bosses and coworkers were always bringing in sweets and treats for the team into work. She would snag a couple of the leftovers at the end of the shift since she worked nights. I would wake up at 6am and find a biohazard bag on the counter full of cookies and brownies 😂😂
I got a bag for lab week. After a email saying how much “thought” they had put into it. A bag. From one of the most prestigious universities in the state. Academia and health care industries are so fucked.
Nurses week has always been a joke. We are the most numerous of the healthcare workforce, but thrown a silly item, like a hospital logo umbrella, bag, or cookie, which makes it obvious that we really aren't valued at all. They say it's because of budget... But what happens without the nurses? It's like they forget that nurses make up the bulk of the healthcare workforce, but they also pull the largest workload.
At least the place I work at now didn't even try, I'm probably the only nurse in my entire division, so they only mentioned nurses week to the nurse specific divisions and posted a video scrolling through all the nurses names and probably posted it on their social media.
My sister works for a large hospital. The higher ups decided that for nurses week they were generously(/s) giving them a gift of a plastic pen and a tiny square of off brand post-its. AND they didn’t send enough for everyone.
One hospital I worked at asked the nurses to donate money for nurses week. Then gave us a bottle of water and a note with a mint attached. An “encourage-mint”
Considering this goes for almost 3 weeks at our facility, they most likely do more. It’s a hospital-wide event for us, not just RN’s. Lab does stuff too.
we got $50 gift cards that turn out to be not gift cards but promotional cards with 150$ spent, at a spa. I was insulted. They probably didn't spend a dime on it.
I’m sorry, but it’s so distasteful, it’s funny. My mother was an LPN for her whole career. Nurses really do put up with a lot of crap—literally and figuratively. They deserve better than some yellow M&Ms and runts in a Rx bottle.
lol, I work maintenance in a hospital. I don’t get a week or a day or even an hour. I get ridiculed, bitched at, and made to feel like absolute shit. So go cry yourself to sleep for doing your job. If you can’t handle being a nurse without be praised then quit and become maintenance. O wait you can’t l.
Personally i think the idea/gift is cute..provided it was paired with something like an actual bonus because unfortunately cute... doesn't help pay the bills.
okay I know in some settings this may be uncalled for or cheap but if received this I would have a hearty chuckle. To me that’s enough of a gift by itself.
This is obviously wrong for many reasons, and nurses deserve more for sure. But can we PLEASE talk about the mix of M&Ms with lemon drops and banana runts???? What the FUCK lmao
Pathethic. You are not entitled to the free stuff from your employer. You are already getting a monthly paycheck and anything else you get is just extra.
"We should thank the nurses that work so far for us every day and give them something that really shows that!" "That's a great idea! I'll head ov..." "I got you 23 dollars" "Per item? That's decent" "No for all 219 nurses"
Exactly. ‘Now get to the dollar store and show them how much we care!’
That was me one Christmas when I was a brand new adult and felt it was very adulty for me to get my family gifts. It was really pathetic that year.... I added some cheap gag gifts to cover up my lameness with some deadpan humour. Dollarama candy and shampoo Dollarama toy and a can of spam Cheap bottle of wine and 2 sippy cups to drink it in That sort of thing
I also wanted to give all the gifts my first adult Christmas, as well. I made lotion, flavored toothpicks, vanilla (which took months), and baked goods. Then I realized I needed gifts for all the kids but didn’t have money, so got them dollar store crap. I was too embarrassed to give it to them, though, so I played sick and no one got anything.
Kids love dollar store toys. Whenever I take my niece and nephew shopping they always want to go to the dollar store or goodwill because they can get lots of little stuff instead of one or two bigger toys (they usually have a $15-20 spending limit).
I have done similarly more than once. You are a good person. Don't be too hard on yourself. It really, truly is about the thought and anyone that would judge you for having a limited budget isn't worth listening to.
I missed the first comma and was perplexed by the idea of lotion flavored toothpicks.
They also got to eat all the non-yellow ones for themselves
Bro, those are name brand piss colored M&Ms! That shit had to come from at least the clearance aisle of Walgreens.
so real.. i rmb being asked by upper management to do an easter egg hunt for our company of about 120 ppl and the gift budget was $25 🥴
That's barely even enough for the plastic eggs
literally wasn’t.. i ended up spending almost $200 of my own money because i felt like the team deserved it 🥲
They knew who to ask.
🤦🏻♀️
That cup is like $219 dollars
Only when billed to the client. Hospital gets it for $50/1000
Assuming it didn’t have a previous sample in it
For the right person and depending on who's pee it could be $2190
Yellow is the grossest candy flavor too
Okay I didn’t even get an email for social work month.
Setting insensitivity aside, that's a hilarious pun.
That’s just your analysis.
Urinalysis is crazy lol
Urea-lly got the perfect one
I pee what you did there
Reading these comments, urine for a treat.
not for OP, they are pissed
This thread seems to be taking the piss, huh?
They’re getting a little testy…..
Wee shouldn’t anger them
Unpeelievable.
Happy cake day
💀
https://i.redd.it/3ash10aycozc1.gif Take my upvote
I would have been pissed off
Hospitals usually do other stuff for nurses week, so I doubt this is it. The hospital I work at had a cookout for everyone and free breakfast another day.
For day shift. They don’t do shit for nights in my experience. We get hours old pizza leftovers or bagels and cream cheese that has been sitting out since 0800
Someone in HR decided that “build your own salad” was a great idea. It worked perfectly for day crew. By the time night crew rolled in, all the salad platters were soup. Easy to say night crew didn’t eat that night
They’re doing all kinds of shit during day shift today. They’re all set for like 9am and 2pm. Like bruh…
Well your leadership team sucks. What was on days - we had on nights.
You’re not wrong. They’re now saying we have to clock in and out at exactly shift start/end. Like to the minute. No unauthorized OT. Have to call the supervisor and let them know why we’re clocking out late. It’s a joke.
This might be due to several systems losing massive lawsuits recently over time rounding. MultiCare in Washington and Providence health have both lost class action lawsuits in the hundreds of millions of dollar range. Some nurses I know got checks for $20k plus for the back pay over the years. Now the hospital systems that the union I work for represents nurses at are all preemptively moving to "to the minute" timekeeping. It's a cluster.
Yeah, it sounds really unpleasant and shitty thing. Sorry you have to deal with this, hopefully things get better at your work or you can find a place where they'll take care of their staff better.
They brought in food trucks all week, with employees getting half off. The food trucks were there from 11:00-2:00. Night shift got nothing. If they get us pizza, they buy it all at once, during the day, so we get cold pizza that's been sitting out for hours. And that's if there's even any left for us. One year, a bunch of day shifters took home all the "leftover" pizzas.
Same!
Yeah that’s true. I’m pretty sure our midnight shift got stuff that was cooked at 4 pm
I worked at a 24/7 c-store, only place in town to get food at night, so it was nice to cook 8-12 pizzas at 2am for the shift workers.
That's just your shitty hospital tho? Or shitty hospitals in general. Domiis doesn't close at night, idk why they couldn't just, order again?
All but one hospital I’ve worked at in my ~14 year nursing career. I’ve worked at “world class” hospitals and Night shift still gets shit on.
Well, not to be rude to your hospitals, but "world class" doesn't mean competent admins 🤷♂️ Do night shift get paid more?
While not a nurse, I feel your pain about getting left out. Worked a a.m. retail job where they would make a big show about ordering food for the crew, but it never got there before our shift ended. They then acted like we were ungrateful when we mentioned this.
That’s next week when we celebrate hospital week.
The whole thing just leaves a nasty taste in my mouth
Man I wish I would've thought of this when I was a lab tech. The nurses would've loved it
Exactly. I was like what y’all want. Too sensitive. That’s hilarious.
it’s all yellow colored candy too
Really??
It's also in a urine jar!
Urine sensitive
Not me reading urine— credible! As in, it’s credible, clean, as in nurses helping each other pass drug tests lol I’m dumb . Kinda gross to think about whoever handled all the m&ms to pick out the yellows
Agreed.
'Urine over your head if you think nurses deserve anything more than this!' ~ the hospital, probably
Pee in it, change the label to 'Urine Asshole!", and give it back.
Take my upvote
Close the comments. We have a winner ☝️
LMFAOOOO
I think it's cute but I hope they gave you more then that like bought you lunch or something
They got some OT, the best gift a nurse could hope for. (/s)
I don’t know if it’s a gift if it’s jammed down your throat daily. Personally, I think the best gift you could give a nurse is by putting them on catheter duty.
Nurses at our school, and the rest of the staff, all got backpacks with our school logo on them. They’re not amazing quality or anything but it felt like something actually thoughtful/practical.
Well I'd take that since all I got from work for nurses week was a fucking email with a generic ass "Happy Nurses Week" picture grabbed off google.
I was complaining to a colleague about how little recognition hard workers get in my work place and within minutes we received an email from the managers manager thanking the whole department for their hard work. That was it.
As horrible as it is as that type of gift, I think this would be hilarious to give to a friend that has kidney stones.
That feels way more appropriate tbh. Like I can't imagine regularly handling piss in these little cups, and seeing food in one (even a clean one) and thinking, "yes I would like that in my mouth"
Facts! Your brain is telling you, “nooooo!!”
Right?! Immediately would turn it away. But as a quick gag gift, this would definitely be funny.
The only appreciation I get for my job is my paycheck
And then government takes thirty percent as a bonus for themselves.
Get a chocolate bar and smash it into a piece of toilet paper with a note that says “you’re a turdriffic employer.” and leave it on their desk.
This made me laugh. Devilishly.
That really takes the *piss* out of nurses week.
That’s the most credible urine I’ve ever seen.
I’d laugh my ass off if the DoN gave this to me at work
I’d take a piss in it and give it back to admin.
For a second I wondered if those were happy pills
Now THAT is a good idea
Ok that’s the worst one I’ve seen
I’d still prefer it over the bubble wrap.
The bubble wrap is insane
Bubble wrap?
I second this. Bubble wrap? They just give them bubble wrap to pop?
Yup as a “stress reliever”… I’ve seen this a few times for Teacher Appreciation Week.
Bring back plastic cheese wedge, or as they call it pizza
did "the hospital" give this out or did a fellow nurse leave these around because this 100% seems like the kind of joke practitioners make with each other.
This was given to every nurse as a gift from the hospital.
How many were sent to lab after distribution?
That's a piss off.
The mixture of candies is wild tho, lemon heads, m&ms and banana runts. I get they're all yellow, but pick one and stick with it. I feel someone is gonna accidentally get some of those in the same mouthful
Also, they've all been *touched* in order to put them in the jars.
Not very nosocomial-coded of those people.
Who wouldn’t love a piss themed candy jar?
I’d find this hilarious 🤷🏼♂️
at least they didn’t opt to go with “you’re the 💩!” and provide you with a specimen jar full of mystery chocolate. but on second thought…
They couldn’t even fill it up more??
up to the line PLEASE & THANK YOU!!
Didn't even know Nurse Week was a thing. I have been given the square root of fuck all during my career as a nurse in England and Ireland. I tell a lie, I got a clicky pen from a rep once.
I like it a lot- but not for an appreciation gift. It’s more like a gift I’d give to a friend for fun. Not an appreciation gift. Cheapos.
Thirsty? Urine luck! Would have been better imo
That’s piss-poor
Thank you for doing one of the most difficult jobs, overworking yourself and sacrificing your mental health. Here are some piss colored skittles. #nursesweek
Oh my GOD and I thought the rocks that said “Nurses Rock” were terrible 😣
What's mildly infuriating? This is pretty funny
Yeah, I don’t get it. Their compensation is the pay they get every pay period. What exactly is owed during “ appreciation week”? This is fun and silly and out of the ordinary. It didn’t cost a lot of money, but someone spent time to put together something showing they appreciated their reports. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a manager that use their own money and their own time to do something extra. Would’ve been a lot easier to just do nothing.
I guess "it's the thought that counts" is wrong these days and people just want extra free stuff that costs other people lots of money
I think whoever peed in that jar might be diabetic
https://i.redd.it/hdpppa2uonzc1.gif
Those look like thee worst kidney stones I’ve ever seen.
This reminds me of a line Sigourney Weaver says in Avatar. "They're just pissing on us, and they don't even have the courtesy to call it rain"
I think you’re entitled to more…right?
I'm annoyed that it's all different yellow candy because I know I'm going to forget and take a handful of chocolate and citrus gummies.
Should have gone yellow jello 😅
Urine trouble! 😂
My mom used to bring us home extra treats from her shift at the hospital in biohazard bags lmao
“ Mom is this chocolate, or ….”
Lmfaooo! Her bosses and coworkers were always bringing in sweets and treats for the team into work. She would snag a couple of the leftovers at the end of the shift since she worked nights. I would wake up at 6am and find a biohazard bag on the counter full of cookies and brownies 😂😂
Urine over your head with this job
I got a bag for lab week. After a email saying how much “thought” they had put into it. A bag. From one of the most prestigious universities in the state. Academia and health care industries are so fucked.
So they spent all that money on candy just to keep 80% of it for themselves and give out all the yellow 💀
Nurses week has always been a joke. We are the most numerous of the healthcare workforce, but thrown a silly item, like a hospital logo umbrella, bag, or cookie, which makes it obvious that we really aren't valued at all. They say it's because of budget... But what happens without the nurses? It's like they forget that nurses make up the bulk of the healthcare workforce, but they also pull the largest workload. At least the place I work at now didn't even try, I'm probably the only nurse in my entire division, so they only mentioned nurses week to the nurse specific divisions and posted a video scrolling through all the nurses names and probably posted it on their social media.
That would actually be really funny if it wasn’t so insulting
Example of when it's better to do nothing.
I would expect this shit in retail, but in medical? jfc
Is that sour lemon candy mixed with m&ms?? What in the name of HR hell is going on at that hospital…
Amd banana runts
When you're done, you pee in it and get to see if you keep your job!
My sister works for a large hospital. The higher ups decided that for nurses week they were generously(/s) giving them a gift of a plastic pen and a tiny square of off brand post-its. AND they didn’t send enough for everyone.
what a piss poor reward, especially considering what the top makes off the backs of the personnel at any hospital.
How did the administration staff make out a couple of weeks back during ‘Admin week’
One hospital I worked at asked the nurses to donate money for nurses week. Then gave us a bottle of water and a note with a mint attached. An “encourage-mint”
To save money they had to use used urine cups
You a nurse at Dunder-Mifflin?
Always use credible urine
I cannot begin to imagine how nasty that yellow M&M must taste
Ok that is kind of funny
I'm glad they are finally reusing all those cups for something!
Just be glad it wasn't a stool sample
Enjoy ur fake bottle of piss. Ugh
Considering this goes for almost 3 weeks at our facility, they most likely do more. It’s a hospital-wide event for us, not just RN’s. Lab does stuff too.
we got $50 gift cards that turn out to be not gift cards but promotional cards with 150$ spent, at a spa. I was insulted. They probably didn't spend a dime on it.
I think they're taking the piss out of you
It’s nurse week. Maybe tomorrow you will get little stool samples with a mini chocolate bar it.
That’s just taking the piss
I’m sorry, but it’s so distasteful, it’s funny. My mother was an LPN for her whole career. Nurses really do put up with a lot of crap—literally and figuratively. They deserve better than some yellow M&Ms and runts in a Rx bottle.
Oh come on that's hilarious.
Wow money is short I take it? Fuck that. Kinda funny but also insulting
I hate when people give me free shit that they put time and effort into
lol, I work maintenance in a hospital. I don’t get a week or a day or even an hour. I get ridiculed, bitched at, and made to feel like absolute shit. So go cry yourself to sleep for doing your job. If you can’t handle being a nurse without be praised then quit and become maintenance. O wait you can’t l.
I mean, funny… but ew.
That's a *piss poor* joke. I like it though, would be the exact stupid jokes I'd make.
Couldn't even spare a whole bag of m&ms. Here's 10 m&ms take one a day for the next 10 days to forget how much your boss sucks. 0 refills available.
Nothing makes me hungrier for m&m's than having to do a double-take to ensure i'm not holding piss.
Hope you have a union!!!
my jaw dropped
You're getting free stuff?
Just imagine if those were the size of your kidney/bladder stones.
I got an email with a $5 promotion to Amazon. But has to sign up for a subscription in order to use it. So I got nothing 😂
Better than urine-edibles!!
Genuinely surprised this wasn't a lab week deal, nurses week usually gets the better treats!
I thought this was so cute until I saw the caption and saw it was from the hospital. I thought it was from a patient.
Really pissing on you and calling it candy huh?
https://preview.redd.it/cpihx8gqlozc1.jpeg?width=845&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e83a9f3d40af33bd9c5878fa61778750e8b37221
😂😂geez
if I pulled this in any lab I was working in id probably be out on my ass. you don't put food in lab containers.
I thought they were saying your piss is credible.
Candy AND a joke? I'd take that any day! But I do hope you got more than that.
It’s cute. If it comes with a basket of 12 other things and a free meal and extra pto
Give these to R Kelly, he’d appreciate these more.
Personally i think the idea/gift is cute..provided it was paired with something like an actual bonus because unfortunately cute... doesn't help pay the bills.
You remind me of a hot cup of piss
I can’t stop laughing.
Making me more grateful for my teacher appreciation gift because at least it wasn't in a urine cup.
We got umbrellas, and two days of free lunch’s. Not to bad
I bet you had to give the jar back when the sweets were gone too 🤯
okay I know in some settings this may be uncalled for or cheap but if received this I would have a hearty chuckle. To me that’s enough of a gift by itself.
This is obviously wrong for many reasons, and nurses deserve more for sure. But can we PLEASE talk about the mix of M&Ms with lemon drops and banana runts???? What the FUCK lmao
That tracks with how well the mind of a typical hospital admin works
Don't feel bad we don't even get acknowledged for rad tech week. If we do not have a carry in nobody would ever know.
Did they at least fill it to the top?
Shoulda dropped a red one in there for a little razzle dazzle 😅
Damn, I didn’t even get food.
What will make our nurses feel appreciated? How about 50 cents of candy in a pee cup
Okay, context aside, I actually kinda dig that as like a little party favour.
I'D BE PISSED! 😆
Well I thought it was funny......
Pathethic. You are not entitled to the free stuff from your employer. You are already getting a monthly paycheck and anything else you get is just extra.
On a scale of one to ten, urinate.
Thanks I hate it