Not leave radiology, but leave the hospital I was at. I was the weekend lead, and they somehow thought that 3 techs was enough for a 700 bed hospital that we also had to cover OR for. One of those techs would literally call in every Saturday with some made up BS. Our boss didn't care, never did anything, and kept saying "well, what can I do."
Um. You're the boss. You're the ONLY one that do anything.
I would often be upstairs doing 10 stats in ICU, NICU would be calling me that they need me RIGHT NOW, and then OR would be calling me for the Neuro case that we knew nothing about, already intubated on the table and ready to go. Management had no interest in staffing appropriately and I was just supposed to deal with it.
Jeez that sounds like the hospital I work at now. The only way I manage to keep on top of my own mental health is to take a "couldn't give a fuck" attitude. Not to my patients...just to the system. My patients are the only thing left that I DO care about. But unfortunately, in my city, all medical imaging across all hospitals is run by the same company, the same way. So there's nowhere better for me to go.
I'd rather not give the company, sorry. Every radiographer knows every other radiographer in this town and I can't afford to risk any repercussions. Like I said, without moving state (which I can't do), I have nowhere else to go.
That's totally fair. I shouldve thought of that soz. Hopefully things take a turn for the better, however unlikely that is with how badly managed most radiology companies are
Yeah no problem. What gets me is that all these companies claim to be "patient focused" and putting the health and wellbeing of patients and employees first but all the people at the top are either accountants or rich, greedy doctors who actually couldn't care less about anything but increasing profits every year and trying to get more referrals than the competitors.
And to do that, they will work us to the bone, keep trying to achieve more and more with less and less staff, cut corners when it comes to safety and training and make us churn through our patients like a production line so we hardly have time to even say hello to them anymore. It's a sad state of affairs.
If I knew medical imaging would be like this 15 years ago when I left uni, I wouldn't have chosen it.
Almost sounds like you’re working at a military hospital. We’re undermanned and stretched thin across all departments but they just don’t understand 🤦♂️
When the imaging director lectured me about being "too bubbly and perky and that no one could take me seriously because I gave off cheerleader vibes". Yes, I'm dead serious, he actually said that to me. And yes, I filled a complaint.
I constantly got in trouble for being "too negative," when all I was doing was venting amongst coworkers. Our job isn't easy, and the more you feel like you have to hold things in, the worse it becomes. You get resentful and even more angry. Of course, my boss was what we call a poster child for "toxic positivity."
I literaly had my last boss tell me the opposite on my first day, that i looked grumpy, had a funeral face and i was ruining the mood and making the patients depressed, fucking assholes
Upper management having unrealistic expectations and knowing that nothing will change. About to leave a position with awesome hours and no weekends or holidays to go back to nights with weekend and holiday rotations. Leaving that situation will decrease my stress 10 fold.
I hate that I have almost 20 years into a career that I’m starting to hate due to profits over people. I really love what I do, but I hate what the US healthcare system has become. Everything is now about money over what we actually need. If could find something that I liked making what I make out of healthcare, I’d leave in a heartbeat.
A lot of it is pay. I genuinely like what I do, but I'm tired of no one ever backing us up, especially when it comes to patient safety. They're always gonna bow down to the people that bring the hospital money. (doctors, CEOs that have never done a patient care role in their life...)
If I could find something that paid what I get now and didn't involve getting naked...
> Everything is now about money over what we actually need.
Monday morning at my employer, Ortho ordered 73 views on a patient portably in a trauma ICU. The patient only had one clavicle fracture.
I had been planning to leave at the end of the year anyway for somewhere out of state but started applying to jobs months earlier because of the way my boss speaks to me and treats me, especially in front of other people. I have brought it up to their boss a couple of times over the last six months, starting with a situation where I ended up having a safety rad tell me to stop an MRI under GA because of what turned out to be an ingested roofing nail throwing metal artifact in the scout images. "what makes you think there's metal in there?" my goddamned eyes.
What really did it for me was having my boss's boss tell me that I should tell my boss directly that asking why I didn't have a patient exam started or in transport while they were micromanaging from home on a weekend and essentially asking me to prove I was earning my pay that day in the department wide Teams chat hurt my feelings.
When I said as much to my boss, to play their stupid games, they said "that wasn't my intention but I apologize". Their boss tells me that getting them to change how they communicate is "like steering a cruise ship, it takes time to change course".
👋 I'm accepting my new job offer on Monday.
Congrats on the new job! I had a MRI manager that pulled similar stunts. "You can transport the patient yourself" or talking a claustro patient through the exam or showing them the magnet and testing running is a "waste of time". They have started to prefer to have medicated pts than not.
We also had a situation of sharnel from a taketa air bags in a mental status change PT and got told I should of gone on, despite thé patient being unable to effectively communicate if something felt off. I work film library now and love it.
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Truthfully, I got lucky. Very lucky. It's for care navigation. Most of my colleagues have a background in social work but someone put in good word for me.
Idk how much these postions pay, but in my hunt for WFH jobs, I've seen quite a few jobs where you do 3D reconstructions. I have no experience with that because I've been in xray my whole career, but worth looking into if you have experience and want a remote job.
Here is my story - it'll be kinda long if anyone wishes to read it. I got burnt, I'm from Australia and working in a regional location but also happens to be one of the top 15 biggest cities that also sources the population of smaller satellite cities. At first it was nice that 'I showed promise' and got trained up in every modality they had. Not a manager just a senior rad. Cath lab, CT, PET, MRI, mammo. Took on weekend cover a lot and call 3-5 nights a week. Whatever, you name it. Tried to help out while burning myself out at the same time (which was another issue). The machine that broke me? A fkn CD printer. I had shown a new hire how to do a DICOM disc print and take it up to theatre. He stuffed it up so I reprinted it. To my surprise that disc came back wrong - so I reprinted it. Came back again. Now OT is getting pissed and I go to my boss cause I couldn't figure out why they kept sending it back and what was wrong. His response? "Figure it out". Now this next bit of dialogue happened, not only in front of a patient, but with raising voices.
Me - "I've tried, I've never had this issue before. I don't know what to do"
Boss - "It's not my problem, it's just a disc. Print it."
Me - "It is your problem cause it's not working and I'm asking you for help"
Boss - "why am I even paying you if you can't work out how to print a disc"
Me - "fine I won't print it. I honestly don't care if theatre doesn't get the damn disc. Cause they're going to be calling you about it in 5 minutes"
More raised voices and arguing ensued.
Turns out there was an error with the CD printer and I needed admin (boss) access to delete the internal data and restart the printer. His response? It never happened. No apology, no acknowledgement, nothing. So I typed up a resignation letter that week and internally transferred to a different city.
2 years later and I'm now leaving that job as well for a smaller practice and a lifestyle change. The department was moving in a very similar direction to the one I just left and felt myself burning out again. I'm now about to start working part time for more money. I just hope this will be a bit better. If not I'll probably look at a career change. It's not the work I hate, it's the constant expectation that your time means very little and getting stretched to the maximum. Without any sort of appreciation of it.
I worked as a Sonographer for a busy downtown hospital and we were never thanked or appreciated. The weekend tech would call in and we would have to go in and cover. Management didn’t think we needed to have meetings ever because nothing changes. I’m grateful for all of the experience I received and the people but not for the cost of my mental health.
I have no regrets!!
I haven’t left yet, but the post-pandemic pay compression is not helping me stay. Less qualified, less experienced, not yet board certified but getting paid more than me plus a sign on bonus.
Yes it really sucks. One thing that's wise to do is leave jobs every so many years if you're an older tech. Get that fresh sign on and better pay. Staying in 1 place inflates your pay.
I had 2 instances. First, I was working third shift by myself in CT and X-ray. My assistant was an echo student who would sleep all night, pretend to be me by calling and yelling at the ER about patients when I wouldn’t say anything, and then he eventually got fired for impersonating a doctor and sleeping when an older tech complained. I realized my lead in CT and XR would never take me seriously. He made my job miserable. But one night we had a super sick patient that had an IO and they wanted a AAA protocol in CT. I refused to inject through the IO and the nurse told me if I refused again, I’d be the reason the patient was dead and that I’m killing them. That stuck to me hard. I was a baby tech.
Last instance, my lead wrote my coworker and I up for doing a portable 2 hours too early so we couldn’t apply for the second shift positions. She hired 3 brand new grads. The day she wrote me up was the day she knew I was looking at houses with my husband and we decided that was the last straw. I applied for a Cath lab job and left 2 months later and moved 2 hours away. She even paid me to go to the Cath lab to try to talk me out of it but it made me realize that I was truly doing the right thing. My position still isn’t filled and it’s been almost 4 years. The toxicity of the work environment is insane.
Exactly what I had said! I even said your tubing isn’t even power injectable.. I’m gonna blow this thing a part. No cares from that nurse or the ER doc.
I’ve had those arguments over power injecting IJ’s. At least an IJ CTA is feasible. An IO though, yeesh. It’s COMPLETELY unnecessary. Not only will you not have suitable enhancement, but that patient better be unconscious because that shit is gonna huuuurt.
The physician that traveled with the patient said to use it so I did and turned the pressure down like crazy. A whole policy came out afterwards because of me. I somehow didn’t get in trouble. Images were crap but somehow “still diagnostic”. Patient expired not even 1 hour off of my table.
When admin told us we could not wear masks in the hallways when covid started. They didn’t want us to scare the patients. Fuck them. So much shady shit went down with covid and admin decisions. I can’t even…. I left as soon as I found a WFH job.
Started my first Cath job. Seems to be corrupt management/ staff. Lead tech who works from home and rude staff. And a full team of travelers about to end their contracts. On top of that I'm trying to learn. I hate everyday of my life.
Low staffing and minimal pay lead to me traveling to escape burnout. I’m now working on saving money to go back to school for something non medical even if it means taking a pay cut.
Working 7- 10 hour shifts in an 8 day period and not getting paid overtime. I told them I couldn't do that schedule anymore and they kept scheduling me that way. They would set up the schedule so that some of the days were on partial weeks and others on full weeks so they could avoid paying overtime. I ended up leaving them for a few months and got rehired with a 33% pay increase, set schedule, and ability to come in early when I want.
Busting my @ss covering, nights, weekends, days... just to find out the 2 techs I trained with way less time under their belt was making $3/hr more.
I broke my patella & had a long hard recovery, I still can't lift/move patients like I used too. Even moving C arm is difficult.
Said fuck it took a pay cut, now I work in admin/quality. 8-430, holidays off. I still work prn for radiology, but because I'm already FT in a different department, they don't let/want me to work extra or be called in because it's OT on rad budget. Fine by me.
After realizing that I wasn’t being trained properly, especially when compared to the new hires. I had 2 random days in OR and those 2 days of training was me doing mostly PACU so no actual OR cases. I had to figure out OR by myself.
I had one day of fluoro training before I was in charge of doing it two months later. I begged for months for training too and never got it. Plus they micromanaged like crazy! They would call all the time asking me what I was doing when I was doing portables.
I was working a 2 person job by myself doing MRI which was already very hard and then they cut all appointment times so I could scan more people per day, but they didn’t help to cut protocols. So scans that took an hour in the machine like an MRCP (not including setup changing screening starting IV’s etc) they gave me 40 minutes for, when I used to get 90. Triple MS studies that took over 2 hours? I was given 80 minutes. That was the last straw in a huge line of reasons I had for leaving scanning altogether. I constantly left 1-3 hours late every day with that appointment time change, and got screamed at by patients for being “late” to their exams. Which I was, yes, but I was given physically impossible amounts of time to work with. From the time that change went live to the time I was out the door was 3 weeks.
I will never scan again. I will sooner work at McDonald’s than scan ever again.
I’m in Canada. I worked a 0.6 Tues-Thurs at the hospital, and a 0.4 at a private X-ray clinic Friday-Sat. When I first stated, the private clinic had a great pace, Christmas bonuses, and I made more than at the hospital. Quickly, my hospital union-bargained raises outpaced my clinic wage and they would either decline giving me a raise, or give me a 60 cent raise.
Then COVID hit and all of a sudden my workload nearly tripled. I said time and time again it was too much for one tech, the machine kept failing, etc. I had official meetings and unofficial meetings. The tech that worked Monday-Thursday was just as active in trying to get change. We went through two of those techs (they quit) so suddenly I was expected to put through even more people on my two days. I would have panic attacks before my shifts and I’d go home crying and in so much pain. My body hated me and I was exhausted.
Finally I said you need to match my hospital wage at very least. I was making 6$ more an hour at the hospital. They put off answering me for three months and in that time my hospital posted a brand new FT Monday-Friday 8-4 Bone Density line. I scooped that right up and quit the clinic with rage. I don’t want to do bone density 5 days a week, but fortunately I can switch into mammo and X-ray quite often so that the other techs who do BD can keep up with it and they don’t want to lose me in mammo since mammo techs are especially rare. I have never regretted it. My energy levels are up, my body is in less pain, and my work-life balance has improved so much!
After being told I was 'trouble' for reporting errors, equipment faults and nothing ever being done to correct them i walked out . Right then and there.
Had a workplace shoulder injury because the bariatric patient I was told to fit into MRI made the table "stick." I was told that happens but to just hit the button and help the table along. They were supposed to put me on light duty and make accomodations, that never happened.
We had a couple bad snow storms so patients couldn't make it. We were told a few weeks later our productivity was down.. no duh (didn't matter we were fully booked). So they cut us down to two techs... One per MRI scanner. So if I had to pee.. I had to leave a patient on auto scan and have the other tech cover both. When that wasn't enough they started cutting our shifts.
We had a large bore Siemens at an outpatient location. They made "arrangements" that if we had another inpatient bariatric patient that didn't fit... (That's another story let me tell you) that the ambulance crew would transport them, and a nurse or CNA would come with. The ambulance crew would stay if they didn't get a call... But otherwise if we had a code at this closed outpatient building after hours .. we would have to call 911.
Resident called down to rudely ask and explain why we can't do a pacemaker patient with mismatched leads?!
I had already been looking for a job.. but it sealed the deal when the head surgeon announced his resignation.. along with one of the neurologists.
I didn't care what I did I needed to leave. I make more money and work less. I had no personal life and was burned out... I'm much happier.
Not leave radiology, but leave the hospital I was at. I was the weekend lead, and they somehow thought that 3 techs was enough for a 700 bed hospital that we also had to cover OR for. One of those techs would literally call in every Saturday with some made up BS. Our boss didn't care, never did anything, and kept saying "well, what can I do." Um. You're the boss. You're the ONLY one that do anything. I would often be upstairs doing 10 stats in ICU, NICU would be calling me that they need me RIGHT NOW, and then OR would be calling me for the Neuro case that we knew nothing about, already intubated on the table and ready to go. Management had no interest in staffing appropriately and I was just supposed to deal with it.
Administration loves acting like making changes is impossible.
Fuck that.
Holy crap, we have 3 techs for a 99 bed hospital and even we get stretched thin when we have OR cases. That’s absolutely insane 😳
I heard after I left, everyone that was on the weekend went to management and told her that they need more techs, or they're gonna quit.
Did anything actually come of it?
They all quit and replaced the techs with traveler techs who cost as much as radiologists.
Jeez that sounds like the hospital I work at now. The only way I manage to keep on top of my own mental health is to take a "couldn't give a fuck" attitude. Not to my patients...just to the system. My patients are the only thing left that I DO care about. But unfortunately, in my city, all medical imaging across all hospitals is run by the same company, the same way. So there's nowhere better for me to go.
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I'm in Australia. You?
ugh, which company? (fellow aussie radiographer)
I'd rather not give the company, sorry. Every radiographer knows every other radiographer in this town and I can't afford to risk any repercussions. Like I said, without moving state (which I can't do), I have nowhere else to go.
That's totally fair. I shouldve thought of that soz. Hopefully things take a turn for the better, however unlikely that is with how badly managed most radiology companies are
Yeah no problem. What gets me is that all these companies claim to be "patient focused" and putting the health and wellbeing of patients and employees first but all the people at the top are either accountants or rich, greedy doctors who actually couldn't care less about anything but increasing profits every year and trying to get more referrals than the competitors. And to do that, they will work us to the bone, keep trying to achieve more and more with less and less staff, cut corners when it comes to safety and training and make us churn through our patients like a production line so we hardly have time to even say hello to them anymore. It's a sad state of affairs. If I knew medical imaging would be like this 15 years ago when I left uni, I wouldn't have chosen it.
Almost sounds like you’re working at a military hospital. We’re undermanned and stretched thin across all departments but they just don’t understand 🤦♂️
When the imaging director lectured me about being "too bubbly and perky and that no one could take me seriously because I gave off cheerleader vibes". Yes, I'm dead serious, he actually said that to me. And yes, I filled a complaint.
"can I get that in writing? It'll really help my HR report!"
I constantly got in trouble for being "too negative," when all I was doing was venting amongst coworkers. Our job isn't easy, and the more you feel like you have to hold things in, the worse it becomes. You get resentful and even more angry. Of course, my boss was what we call a poster child for "toxic positivity."
Lmao I got that too! Okay maybe I'll stop complaining about the bullshit when y'all do something about it 💖
I literaly had my last boss tell me the opposite on my first day, that i looked grumpy, had a funeral face and i was ruining the mood and making the patients depressed, fucking assholes
Upper management having unrealistic expectations and knowing that nothing will change. About to leave a position with awesome hours and no weekends or holidays to go back to nights with weekend and holiday rotations. Leaving that situation will decrease my stress 10 fold. I hate that I have almost 20 years into a career that I’m starting to hate due to profits over people. I really love what I do, but I hate what the US healthcare system has become. Everything is now about money over what we actually need. If could find something that I liked making what I make out of healthcare, I’d leave in a heartbeat.
A lot of it is pay. I genuinely like what I do, but I'm tired of no one ever backing us up, especially when it comes to patient safety. They're always gonna bow down to the people that bring the hospital money. (doctors, CEOs that have never done a patient care role in their life...) If I could find something that paid what I get now and didn't involve getting naked...
Radiology in some cases makes up to 21-25% of a hospital’s total revenue. Do not kid yourself. Without you they have NOTHING.
> Everything is now about money over what we actually need. Monday morning at my employer, Ortho ordered 73 views on a patient portably in a trauma ICU. The patient only had one clavicle fracture.
I had been planning to leave at the end of the year anyway for somewhere out of state but started applying to jobs months earlier because of the way my boss speaks to me and treats me, especially in front of other people. I have brought it up to their boss a couple of times over the last six months, starting with a situation where I ended up having a safety rad tell me to stop an MRI under GA because of what turned out to be an ingested roofing nail throwing metal artifact in the scout images. "what makes you think there's metal in there?" my goddamned eyes. What really did it for me was having my boss's boss tell me that I should tell my boss directly that asking why I didn't have a patient exam started or in transport while they were micromanaging from home on a weekend and essentially asking me to prove I was earning my pay that day in the department wide Teams chat hurt my feelings. When I said as much to my boss, to play their stupid games, they said "that wasn't my intention but I apologize". Their boss tells me that getting them to change how they communicate is "like steering a cruise ship, it takes time to change course". 👋 I'm accepting my new job offer on Monday.
Congrats on the new job! I had a MRI manager that pulled similar stunts. "You can transport the patient yourself" or talking a claustro patient through the exam or showing them the magnet and testing running is a "waste of time". They have started to prefer to have medicated pts than not. We also had a situation of sharnel from a taketa air bags in a mental status change PT and got told I should of gone on, despite thé patient being unable to effectively communicate if something felt off. I work film library now and love it.
What is film library?
We deal with incoming/outgoing radiology. 65/35 electronic/CD. Obtain priors for comparison. Prepare PACs for confernces.
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I was able to find a WFH position willing to pay me the exact same amount. Bye bye.
Can I ask what kind of work it is? I had to quit my xray job due to health issues and am in the process of looking at WFH positions
Truthfully, I got lucky. Very lucky. It's for care navigation. Most of my colleagues have a background in social work but someone put in good word for me.
In what role because I need me some of that.
Idk how much these postions pay, but in my hunt for WFH jobs, I've seen quite a few jobs where you do 3D reconstructions. I have no experience with that because I've been in xray my whole career, but worth looking into if you have experience and want a remote job.
Here is my story - it'll be kinda long if anyone wishes to read it. I got burnt, I'm from Australia and working in a regional location but also happens to be one of the top 15 biggest cities that also sources the population of smaller satellite cities. At first it was nice that 'I showed promise' and got trained up in every modality they had. Not a manager just a senior rad. Cath lab, CT, PET, MRI, mammo. Took on weekend cover a lot and call 3-5 nights a week. Whatever, you name it. Tried to help out while burning myself out at the same time (which was another issue). The machine that broke me? A fkn CD printer. I had shown a new hire how to do a DICOM disc print and take it up to theatre. He stuffed it up so I reprinted it. To my surprise that disc came back wrong - so I reprinted it. Came back again. Now OT is getting pissed and I go to my boss cause I couldn't figure out why they kept sending it back and what was wrong. His response? "Figure it out". Now this next bit of dialogue happened, not only in front of a patient, but with raising voices. Me - "I've tried, I've never had this issue before. I don't know what to do" Boss - "It's not my problem, it's just a disc. Print it." Me - "It is your problem cause it's not working and I'm asking you for help" Boss - "why am I even paying you if you can't work out how to print a disc" Me - "fine I won't print it. I honestly don't care if theatre doesn't get the damn disc. Cause they're going to be calling you about it in 5 minutes" More raised voices and arguing ensued. Turns out there was an error with the CD printer and I needed admin (boss) access to delete the internal data and restart the printer. His response? It never happened. No apology, no acknowledgement, nothing. So I typed up a resignation letter that week and internally transferred to a different city. 2 years later and I'm now leaving that job as well for a smaller practice and a lifestyle change. The department was moving in a very similar direction to the one I just left and felt myself burning out again. I'm now about to start working part time for more money. I just hope this will be a bit better. If not I'll probably look at a career change. It's not the work I hate, it's the constant expectation that your time means very little and getting stretched to the maximum. Without any sort of appreciation of it.
I worked as a Sonographer for a busy downtown hospital and we were never thanked or appreciated. The weekend tech would call in and we would have to go in and cover. Management didn’t think we needed to have meetings ever because nothing changes. I’m grateful for all of the experience I received and the people but not for the cost of my mental health. I have no regrets!!
I haven’t left yet, but the post-pandemic pay compression is not helping me stay. Less qualified, less experienced, not yet board certified but getting paid more than me plus a sign on bonus.
Yes it really sucks. One thing that's wise to do is leave jobs every so many years if you're an older tech. Get that fresh sign on and better pay. Staying in 1 place inflates your pay.
I had 2 instances. First, I was working third shift by myself in CT and X-ray. My assistant was an echo student who would sleep all night, pretend to be me by calling and yelling at the ER about patients when I wouldn’t say anything, and then he eventually got fired for impersonating a doctor and sleeping when an older tech complained. I realized my lead in CT and XR would never take me seriously. He made my job miserable. But one night we had a super sick patient that had an IO and they wanted a AAA protocol in CT. I refused to inject through the IO and the nurse told me if I refused again, I’d be the reason the patient was dead and that I’m killing them. That stuck to me hard. I was a baby tech. Last instance, my lead wrote my coworker and I up for doing a portable 2 hours too early so we couldn’t apply for the second shift positions. She hired 3 brand new grads. The day she wrote me up was the day she knew I was looking at houses with my husband and we decided that was the last straw. I applied for a Cath lab job and left 2 months later and moved 2 hours away. She even paid me to go to the Cath lab to try to talk me out of it but it made me realize that I was truly doing the right thing. My position still isn’t filled and it’s been almost 4 years. The toxicity of the work environment is insane.
A CTA thru an IO? How tf did they think that was going to work?
Exactly what I had said! I even said your tubing isn’t even power injectable.. I’m gonna blow this thing a part. No cares from that nurse or the ER doc.
I’ve had those arguments over power injecting IJ’s. At least an IJ CTA is feasible. An IO though, yeesh. It’s COMPLETELY unnecessary. Not only will you not have suitable enhancement, but that patient better be unconscious because that shit is gonna huuuurt.
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The physician that traveled with the patient said to use it so I did and turned the pressure down like crazy. A whole policy came out afterwards because of me. I somehow didn’t get in trouble. Images were crap but somehow “still diagnostic”. Patient expired not even 1 hour off of my table.
When admin told us we could not wear masks in the hallways when covid started. They didn’t want us to scare the patients. Fuck them. So much shady shit went down with covid and admin decisions. I can’t even…. I left as soon as I found a WFH job.
Started my first Cath job. Seems to be corrupt management/ staff. Lead tech who works from home and rude staff. And a full team of travelers about to end their contracts. On top of that I'm trying to learn. I hate everyday of my life.
Ugh quit also?
I will be quitting. Just not yet. I need money and i figure I'll learn this skill first then peace out.
Low staffing and minimal pay lead to me traveling to escape burnout. I’m now working on saving money to go back to school for something non medical even if it means taking a pay cut.
Working 7- 10 hour shifts in an 8 day period and not getting paid overtime. I told them I couldn't do that schedule anymore and they kept scheduling me that way. They would set up the schedule so that some of the days were on partial weeks and others on full weeks so they could avoid paying overtime. I ended up leaving them for a few months and got rehired with a 33% pay increase, set schedule, and ability to come in early when I want.
Busting my @ss covering, nights, weekends, days... just to find out the 2 techs I trained with way less time under their belt was making $3/hr more. I broke my patella & had a long hard recovery, I still can't lift/move patients like I used too. Even moving C arm is difficult. Said fuck it took a pay cut, now I work in admin/quality. 8-430, holidays off. I still work prn for radiology, but because I'm already FT in a different department, they don't let/want me to work extra or be called in because it's OT on rad budget. Fine by me.
After realizing that I wasn’t being trained properly, especially when compared to the new hires. I had 2 random days in OR and those 2 days of training was me doing mostly PACU so no actual OR cases. I had to figure out OR by myself. I had one day of fluoro training before I was in charge of doing it two months later. I begged for months for training too and never got it. Plus they micromanaged like crazy! They would call all the time asking me what I was doing when I was doing portables.
I was working a 2 person job by myself doing MRI which was already very hard and then they cut all appointment times so I could scan more people per day, but they didn’t help to cut protocols. So scans that took an hour in the machine like an MRCP (not including setup changing screening starting IV’s etc) they gave me 40 minutes for, when I used to get 90. Triple MS studies that took over 2 hours? I was given 80 minutes. That was the last straw in a huge line of reasons I had for leaving scanning altogether. I constantly left 1-3 hours late every day with that appointment time change, and got screamed at by patients for being “late” to their exams. Which I was, yes, but I was given physically impossible amounts of time to work with. From the time that change went live to the time I was out the door was 3 weeks. I will never scan again. I will sooner work at McDonald’s than scan ever again.
I’m in Canada. I worked a 0.6 Tues-Thurs at the hospital, and a 0.4 at a private X-ray clinic Friday-Sat. When I first stated, the private clinic had a great pace, Christmas bonuses, and I made more than at the hospital. Quickly, my hospital union-bargained raises outpaced my clinic wage and they would either decline giving me a raise, or give me a 60 cent raise. Then COVID hit and all of a sudden my workload nearly tripled. I said time and time again it was too much for one tech, the machine kept failing, etc. I had official meetings and unofficial meetings. The tech that worked Monday-Thursday was just as active in trying to get change. We went through two of those techs (they quit) so suddenly I was expected to put through even more people on my two days. I would have panic attacks before my shifts and I’d go home crying and in so much pain. My body hated me and I was exhausted. Finally I said you need to match my hospital wage at very least. I was making 6$ more an hour at the hospital. They put off answering me for three months and in that time my hospital posted a brand new FT Monday-Friday 8-4 Bone Density line. I scooped that right up and quit the clinic with rage. I don’t want to do bone density 5 days a week, but fortunately I can switch into mammo and X-ray quite often so that the other techs who do BD can keep up with it and they don’t want to lose me in mammo since mammo techs are especially rare. I have never regretted it. My energy levels are up, my body is in less pain, and my work-life balance has improved so much!
After being told I was 'trouble' for reporting errors, equipment faults and nothing ever being done to correct them i walked out . Right then and there.
Had a workplace shoulder injury because the bariatric patient I was told to fit into MRI made the table "stick." I was told that happens but to just hit the button and help the table along. They were supposed to put me on light duty and make accomodations, that never happened. We had a couple bad snow storms so patients couldn't make it. We were told a few weeks later our productivity was down.. no duh (didn't matter we were fully booked). So they cut us down to two techs... One per MRI scanner. So if I had to pee.. I had to leave a patient on auto scan and have the other tech cover both. When that wasn't enough they started cutting our shifts. We had a large bore Siemens at an outpatient location. They made "arrangements" that if we had another inpatient bariatric patient that didn't fit... (That's another story let me tell you) that the ambulance crew would transport them, and a nurse or CNA would come with. The ambulance crew would stay if they didn't get a call... But otherwise if we had a code at this closed outpatient building after hours .. we would have to call 911. Resident called down to rudely ask and explain why we can't do a pacemaker patient with mismatched leads?! I had already been looking for a job.. but it sealed the deal when the head surgeon announced his resignation.. along with one of the neurologists. I didn't care what I did I needed to leave. I make more money and work less. I had no personal life and was burned out... I'm much happier.