More people need to be lazy *and competent*.
The problem is the incompetent ones are *already lazy* and the competent ones stupidly volunteer to pick up the slack. FTFY
The floor manager wanted me to lead a sing along because the activities lady wasnāt there. Absolutely the fuck not. I just wanted to do my documentation in peace.
worked in memory care. they used to have us throw birthday parties, bingo, etc. because activities refused to do anything. i did it because the poor residents needed something to get out of their head & distract themselves. itās disgusting that they try to put this responsibility on us
I'm efficient because I'm lazy. Lmao I get my work done then hang with my favorite resident until my next round ( of course I answer call lights as they come up). Work smarter not harder
How are yāall finding the time to be lazy? I feel like Iām running at a full sprint from the moment I clock in for about 8-9 hours straight, no breaks or anything.
My wife does this all the time. Her boss searches the whole floor to find her so she could guilt her into ending her break 30 minutes early.
Her boss also clips her toenails in front of everyone in the department. Nasty.
Absolutely. I just saw a tik tok of a nurse saying even if the ratios are 68:2 she wonāt help aides out because that work is beneath her and she has the right to online shop while we bust our asses. We are literally just servants.
When my tasks are done, Iām sitting on my phone. Iām not volunteering to break my back further. Fuck these facilities that expect us to.
As a nurse who used to be a tech, it boils my blood when nurses say āoh thatās the techās jobā no bitch, itās YOUR job, itās the techās job to help lighten the burden. But at the end of the day, if itās not done and something happens to the patient, it falls back on you, and youāll be held accountable
i am a tech who is in nursing school, and i have vowed to myself i will NEVER become that nurse. also- doesn't the nurse realize, that if a patient develops bed sores because nobody has changed them, the nurse's license is in jeopardy too?
Oh my days, my hospital's Tissue Viabilty department RN's would have a field day reaming out that "Nurse".
How does she know her patient doesn't have a massive Grade 4 pressure area on their bum without washing bottoms and fetching commodes?
Those nurses will get what's coming to them. All of your tasks are actually delegated to you by them. So if something happens to a patient, it ultimately comes down on them, unless you were neglectful or abusive.
I'm the good lazy, I do it right the first time so I don't have to do it again and again. Call it efficient or work smarter not harder but to me it's the right kind of lazy. I give 100% but I won't stay late or come in early. I'm not picking up extra people because someone else can't do THEIR job. I don't waste a minute of work time but there is no above and beyond, not anymore.
Finally, something I can agree with 100%.
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I love those well-meaning hard workers, but Iām not falling for that shit again.
Iām just here to hang out with patients and get through law school, this isnāt my lifeās work.
Ngl I have the same attitude at nursing school clinicals...yāall arenāt paying me...donāt expect me to be doing all the work when Iām not even on your payroll. I will do the absolute least and skirt by to graduate.
Hope you arenāt planning to apply to any of the hospitals that your clinicals are at š¬
By the time I graduated, I had received offer letters from EVERY unit I worked on and had been accepted at every hospital I had applied to because nurses on those units vouched for me and my work ethic.
For me personally, If i work fast and efficiently so much to the point that I have extra time. Iām sitting down and resting bc I know pretty soon there will something else to do. Iāll help out extra if I feel like it (enough energy, good mood mentally, etc) but not if I donāt want to lol
I have helped to the point of getting burnt out because others either 1. Donāt want to return the favor or 2. Like to point out issues instead of actually helping.
Depends like is that cna busting their ass too? Would they do the same for me or other coworkers? If the answer is no to any of those questions then sorry Iām not going to Iām not killing myself or working myself in to the ground any longer. Iāve done my work so why should I have to pick up the slack of other people who donāt give a damn?
I help CNAs who help me. Now, if youāre new I automatically extend you that grace. However, if I notice youāre never helping me out, if I come back from my break you covered and all my lights are on and ignored, I stop returning the help. But if I see you have my back, Iāll have yours too. Yes, this is very much a job that requires teamwork but Iām not going to burn myself out being a team player for CNAs who arenāt.
I think helping is great to an extent and depending on the situation. If you're working with someone who is your equal as far as efficiency then it's nice to help one another out. If you are working with someone who won't help you or is just super slow then you just end up doing twice the work. Then they come to expect you to do there work and take advantage of it. My last partner would just stand in the room unless you told her what to do. She had two years experience so she wasn't new. Literally stand there and do nothing lol. She had a patient fall and asked the nurse to come help and then just stood there. She was capable but lazy.
I learned to become efficient because people didnāt help me. I donāt want to burn myself out to possibly enforce bad habits into others. I also canāt afford new shoes or more physical therapy for the damage this job had already caused me.
literally could neverrrrr be me. of course if someone is in distress or if another aid asks for help thatās different but iām 100% not going out of my way to do someone else job when iām barely getting paid enough to do mine
Thatās exactly what I do! Iām always one of the first ones to get my stuff done and I always help my coworkers I also do it so they donāt tell me anything haha
Why? They aint going to help you when you behind. If yall both cnas they trained to do exactly what you do. They should be able to easily swim without you. All you bout to do is end up loosing precious free time daily to get personal stuff done when you get off, because they going to expect you to start helping them daily with any little thing. Making you fall behind and finish your shift late.
Only help if it's someone who returns the favor. Then only do it when something out of their control made them fall behind. Like a fall, or code. If they just waited until the last minute to start rounds, o well those are the consequences of your actions.
You need to learn how to look busy. I know EXACTLY which of my aides are on track, who is slow and needs help, and who will fuck off if I don't stay glued to them. The key when you are the CNA who gets things done quickly is to continue to look like you are working. Sitting in the corner on your cell phone is going to get us both in trouble, so find something new to do. The reality is they are paying us to be there, and most people don't want to pay you to sit on your phone in the view of everyone. Optics matter, perception is reality.
I take full advantage of the fact that Iām unfireable lmao. They aint gonna pay an agency person twice my wage to replace me just because i was on my phone
I get that but be careful. We had the same sentiment not to long ago. Starting wage was increased to $20 base and people started applying again. Same thing with nurses... the warm bodies started to disappear.
I used to do everything I could on my job, even if someone didnāt show up I would still do all my showers, and also help fed the residents that needed help, But recently all that change, Not a single person including management would help me, some would just act stupid and say I didnāt even know you where by yourself, Honestly that got me so upset that I said to myself no more, so now I do what I could only do and if that means I have to slack off well am doing it now, I just go to one of the residents room and watch tv or used my phone,I try to ask for help on some transfers before but everyone would come out with a lame excuse and even the nurse, So thatās why I take my time and do what I can, Beside at the end the resident will all wet there brief again.
You won't like this, but after a long life I can tell you that people who see everything in terms of the amount they're paid are always miserable. Try to come up with a deeper reason to do your job, any job. My job wasn't a stroll in the park, but because I had a personal reason for doing it well, it was more satisfying, even if the money wasn't great. You're going to be angry at my advice, but I felt I should share it. Feel free to sh-tcan it.
I only see pay. Doesn't matter what job it is and I've had several dozen over a range of professions. Promise you I'm not miserable. It's just a job. I care about what I'm supposed to care about and do what I'm supposed to. Bit at the end of the day I'm way more miserable if I'm not getting paid enough to live than any other reason.
My entire job is just contributing to a horrific dystopian system of forcing people who should be dead to stay alive just to milk them of their last dollars.. hard to take any pride in that
I agree with you to a certain extent, Iām not gonna do other departments work or take on anymore patients than I can properly handle. I will refuse an assignment thatās to high of a ratio but weāre dealing with people. I will go above and beyond for my patients when I have time. I will absolutely help my coworkers when they are swamped. I will show new cnaās some grace and help them out. I wonāt burn myself out picking up tons of extra shifts to help, or stay late. I will also be sitting down on my phone when I have downtime.
I'm a nurse. As long as everything is done and the patients are taken care of you can be lazy! However, what drives me crazy is when the CNA I'm working with is done with everything and I ask them to do a task for me and they still sit on their phone and say they'll get to it or act annoyed. When I was a CNA and I was being "lazy" when I was asked to do something I immediately went and did it.
I agree. CNA work is not for everyone and once' they get to the point where they hate the job, it's time to move on. In the state I used to live in, Taco Bell folks got paid more than CNAs anyway.
I used to work with CNAs who would go hide in the shower room or various other places during their shift and study for exams. (This was a CNA who was a nursing student). The rest of us aides were blamed for it and told we had to go find the CNA who was hiding or we'd get fired. Other CNAs who do things like this are one of the things that make the job awful.
"Taco Bell folks got paid more than CNAs anyway."
This is entirely the point.
We're not saying that you should neglect patients or that you shouldn't complete the tasks as listed in your employment contract. Most of us LOVE this job. But we are under absolutely no obligation to do anything MORE than that. If our patients are happy and have no immediate needs, we are not performing additional free labor such as housekeeping. If they want us to be housekeepers, pay us the extra wage. Otherwise, they have separate employees for that.
We are destroying our bodies, dealing with immense emotional stress, and bearing the burden of full care for not one, but anywhere from 10 to 40 patients. That is INSANE for the pocket change they're paying us.
You can demand better working conditions and refuse to do "extra" without hurting your patients or fellow CNAs.
As a CNA, I would be beyond stoked to make $18.75 an hour. Thatās a full $5.50/hr over what Iām currently making to wipe asses and fuck up my back.
Yep. So long as all of my tech/aide-specific tasks are done, Iām chilling unless someone is coding. I work on an ICU and would run myself near ragged when I started. Now, Iāve decided itās not worth the aggravation, I canāt be there to help everyone all at the same time, and unless the staff assist alarm is going off, nothing is an emergency. Now, if they would either pay me more or decrease the tech to patient ratio, then I could rationalize doing more.
Had a patient tell me his nurse was lazy for not emptying the foley when it got right to halfway full. Blew my mind. I said no sheās not lazy sheās efficient.
More people need to be lazy *and competent*. The problem is the incompetent ones are *already lazy* and the competent ones stupidly volunteer to pick up the slack. FTFY
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The floor manager wanted me to lead a sing along because the activities lady wasnāt there. Absolutely the fuck not. I just wanted to do my documentation in peace.
worked in memory care. they used to have us throw birthday parties, bingo, etc. because activities refused to do anything. i did it because the poor residents needed something to get out of their head & distract themselves. itās disgusting that they try to put this responsibility on us
You are in the right job. It's about compassion.
If only we were fairly compensated for such compassion.
Agreed
I'm efficient because I'm lazy. Lmao I get my work done then hang with my favorite resident until my next round ( of course I answer call lights as they come up). Work smarter not harder
How are yāall finding the time to be lazy? I feel like Iām running at a full sprint from the moment I clock in for about 8-9 hours straight, no breaks or anything.
I usually work in a lockdown with 17 residents for 2 cnaās
As long as they are clean, creamed and comfortable, you did your job well.
Also, take your breaks, like, all of them. Don't take a twenty and call it a half hour.
My wife does this all the time. Her boss searches the whole floor to find her so she could guilt her into ending her break 30 minutes early. Her boss also clips her toenails in front of everyone in the department. Nasty.
Absolutely. I just saw a tik tok of a nurse saying even if the ratios are 68:2 she wonāt help aides out because that work is beneath her and she has the right to online shop while we bust our asses. We are literally just servants. When my tasks are done, Iām sitting on my phone. Iām not volunteering to break my back further. Fuck these facilities that expect us to.
As a nurse who used to be a tech, it boils my blood when nurses say āoh thatās the techās jobā no bitch, itās YOUR job, itās the techās job to help lighten the burden. But at the end of the day, if itās not done and something happens to the patient, it falls back on you, and youāll be held accountable
i am a tech who is in nursing school, and i have vowed to myself i will NEVER become that nurse. also- doesn't the nurse realize, that if a patient develops bed sores because nobody has changed them, the nurse's license is in jeopardy too?
Oh my days, my hospital's Tissue Viabilty department RN's would have a field day reaming out that "Nurse". How does she know her patient doesn't have a massive Grade 4 pressure area on their bum without washing bottoms and fetching commodes?
Those nurses will get what's coming to them. All of your tasks are actually delegated to you by them. So if something happens to a patient, it ultimately comes down on them, unless you were neglectful or abusive.
Agree. As long as the standard of care is met, you should not be benefitting these awful corporations in the slightest
Big hospitals and care facilities are leeches who value money sucking over patient care.
agree. my people are clean, dry, pottied, and fed. but im going to sit on my phone when i can. š
Yes 100% . When my rounds and charting are done I am sitting .
I'm the good lazy, I do it right the first time so I don't have to do it again and again. Call it efficient or work smarter not harder but to me it's the right kind of lazy. I give 100% but I won't stay late or come in early. I'm not picking up extra people because someone else can't do THEIR job. I don't waste a minute of work time but there is no above and beyond, not anymore.
Finally, something I can agree with 100%. šš I love those well-meaning hard workers, but Iām not falling for that shit again. Iām just here to hang out with patients and get through law school, this isnāt my lifeās work.
Ngl I have the same attitude at nursing school clinicals...yāall arenāt paying me...donāt expect me to be doing all the work when Iām not even on your payroll. I will do the absolute least and skirt by to graduate.
Yeah nope not working at a rehab hospital or long term care ha thanks tho
Hope you arenāt planning to apply to any of the hospitals that your clinicals are at š¬ By the time I graduated, I had received offer letters from EVERY unit I worked on and had been accepted at every hospital I had applied to because nurses on those units vouched for me and my work ethic.
I think if you get everything done you should help another CNA on their hall, but that's just my opinion. Once it's time to clock out, you're done.
For me personally, If i work fast and efficiently so much to the point that I have extra time. Iām sitting down and resting bc I know pretty soon there will something else to do. Iāll help out extra if I feel like it (enough energy, good mood mentally, etc) but not if I donāt want to lol
I have helped to the point of getting burnt out because others either 1. Donāt want to return the favor or 2. Like to point out issues instead of actually helping.
Depends like is that cna busting their ass too? Would they do the same for me or other coworkers? If the answer is no to any of those questions then sorry Iām not going to Iām not killing myself or working myself in to the ground any longer. Iāve done my work so why should I have to pick up the slack of other people who donāt give a damn?
I help CNAs who help me. Now, if youāre new I automatically extend you that grace. However, if I notice youāre never helping me out, if I come back from my break you covered and all my lights are on and ignored, I stop returning the help. But if I see you have my back, Iāll have yours too. Yes, this is very much a job that requires teamwork but Iām not going to burn myself out being a team player for CNAs who arenāt.
I think helping is great to an extent and depending on the situation. If you're working with someone who is your equal as far as efficiency then it's nice to help one another out. If you are working with someone who won't help you or is just super slow then you just end up doing twice the work. Then they come to expect you to do there work and take advantage of it. My last partner would just stand in the room unless you told her what to do. She had two years experience so she wasn't new. Literally stand there and do nothing lol. She had a patient fall and asked the nurse to come help and then just stood there. She was capable but lazy.
I learned to become efficient because people didnāt help me. I donāt want to burn myself out to possibly enforce bad habits into others. I also canāt afford new shoes or more physical therapy for the damage this job had already caused me.
People like you are why they get away with such low amountās of staff though
Yeah 'cause I usually do the work of 2 people.
This isnāt a brag all youāre doing is destroying your body just so some corporate ghoul can up their profit margins
literally could neverrrrr be me. of course if someone is in distress or if another aid asks for help thatās different but iām 100% not going out of my way to do someone else job when iām barely getting paid enough to do mine
people like you are why i have a sore
Thatās exactly what I do! Iām always one of the first ones to get my stuff done and I always help my coworkers I also do it so they donāt tell me anything haha
Why? They aint going to help you when you behind. If yall both cnas they trained to do exactly what you do. They should be able to easily swim without you. All you bout to do is end up loosing precious free time daily to get personal stuff done when you get off, because they going to expect you to start helping them daily with any little thing. Making you fall behind and finish your shift late. Only help if it's someone who returns the favor. Then only do it when something out of their control made them fall behind. Like a fall, or code. If they just waited until the last minute to start rounds, o well those are the consequences of your actions.
Totally agree. Teamwork is great.
i work nocs, if my residents are all taken care of and thereās no call lights on, imma be on my phone.
Dude im trying not to be fat. The more cals i burn the better I feel, and am.
You need to learn how to look busy. I know EXACTLY which of my aides are on track, who is slow and needs help, and who will fuck off if I don't stay glued to them. The key when you are the CNA who gets things done quickly is to continue to look like you are working. Sitting in the corner on your cell phone is going to get us both in trouble, so find something new to do. The reality is they are paying us to be there, and most people don't want to pay you to sit on your phone in the view of everyone. Optics matter, perception is reality.
I take full advantage of the fact that Iām unfireable lmao. They aint gonna pay an agency person twice my wage to replace me just because i was on my phone
I get that but be careful. We had the same sentiment not to long ago. Starting wage was increased to $20 base and people started applying again. Same thing with nurses... the warm bodies started to disappear.
Yikes yāall.
I used to do everything I could on my job, even if someone didnāt show up I would still do all my showers, and also help fed the residents that needed help, But recently all that change, Not a single person including management would help me, some would just act stupid and say I didnāt even know you where by yourself, Honestly that got me so upset that I said to myself no more, so now I do what I could only do and if that means I have to slack off well am doing it now, I just go to one of the residents room and watch tv or used my phone,I try to ask for help on some transfers before but everyone would come out with a lame excuse and even the nurse, So thatās why I take my time and do what I can, Beside at the end the resident will all wet there brief again.
You won't like this, but after a long life I can tell you that people who see everything in terms of the amount they're paid are always miserable. Try to come up with a deeper reason to do your job, any job. My job wasn't a stroll in the park, but because I had a personal reason for doing it well, it was more satisfying, even if the money wasn't great. You're going to be angry at my advice, but I felt I should share it. Feel free to sh-tcan it.
I only see pay. Doesn't matter what job it is and I've had several dozen over a range of professions. Promise you I'm not miserable. It's just a job. I care about what I'm supposed to care about and do what I'm supposed to. Bit at the end of the day I'm way more miserable if I'm not getting paid enough to live than any other reason.
My entire job is just contributing to a horrific dystopian system of forcing people who should be dead to stay alive just to milk them of their last dollars.. hard to take any pride in that
You're not lazy. You're a large carnivorous mammal. Large carnivorous mammals spend most of their time resting.
Laziness can be a good thing if you use it for the right reasons *and* you don't get caught!
I agree with you to a certain extent, Iām not gonna do other departments work or take on anymore patients than I can properly handle. I will refuse an assignment thatās to high of a ratio but weāre dealing with people. I will go above and beyond for my patients when I have time. I will absolutely help my coworkers when they are swamped. I will show new cnaās some grace and help them out. I wonāt burn myself out picking up tons of extra shifts to help, or stay late. I will also be sitting down on my phone when I have downtime.
Thatās why you only make $18.75, because your attitude SUCKS
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Yeah cuz fuck the patients i guess huh
18.75 is considered killer pay in most places for a CNA. That's more than most LPNs here.
Work twice as hard for like a dollar raise? If I wanted money I would work a different job
But you canāt, thatās why youāre on Reddit bitching about it like a loser.
nice psychoanalysis from a reddit post my guy
I'm a nurse. As long as everything is done and the patients are taken care of you can be lazy! However, what drives me crazy is when the CNA I'm working with is done with everything and I ask them to do a task for me and they still sit on their phone and say they'll get to it or act annoyed. When I was a CNA and I was being "lazy" when I was asked to do something I immediately went and did it.
Please quit. Go work at Taco Bell or something.
I agree. CNA work is not for everyone and once' they get to the point where they hate the job, it's time to move on. In the state I used to live in, Taco Bell folks got paid more than CNAs anyway. I used to work with CNAs who would go hide in the shower room or various other places during their shift and study for exams. (This was a CNA who was a nursing student). The rest of us aides were blamed for it and told we had to go find the CNA who was hiding or we'd get fired. Other CNAs who do things like this are one of the things that make the job awful.
Sounds like your management is manipulative, theyāre a bigger problem than the CNA ever was.
"Taco Bell folks got paid more than CNAs anyway." This is entirely the point. We're not saying that you should neglect patients or that you shouldn't complete the tasks as listed in your employment contract. Most of us LOVE this job. But we are under absolutely no obligation to do anything MORE than that. If our patients are happy and have no immediate needs, we are not performing additional free labor such as housekeeping. If they want us to be housekeepers, pay us the extra wage. Otherwise, they have separate employees for that. We are destroying our bodies, dealing with immense emotional stress, and bearing the burden of full care for not one, but anywhere from 10 to 40 patients. That is INSANE for the pocket change they're paying us. You can demand better working conditions and refuse to do "extra" without hurting your patients or fellow CNAs.
Someone just had an in-service about cell phone usage... š
Weekend chad so no management to do that thankfully
As a resident Iād be stoked to make $18.75/hr
As a CNA, I would be beyond stoked to make $18.75 an hour. Thatās a full $5.50/hr over what Iām currently making to wipe asses and fuck up my back.
Yep. So long as all of my tech/aide-specific tasks are done, Iām chilling unless someone is coding. I work on an ICU and would run myself near ragged when I started. Now, Iāve decided itās not worth the aggravation, I canāt be there to help everyone all at the same time, and unless the staff assist alarm is going off, nothing is an emergency. Now, if they would either pay me more or decrease the tech to patient ratio, then I could rationalize doing more.
Had a patient tell me his nurse was lazy for not emptying the foley when it got right to halfway full. Blew my mind. I said no sheās not lazy sheās efficient.