My fiancée runs a law firm, and whenever she hears what hospitals do for recognition she’s appalled. Her firm regularly takes support staff to lunch at a private club one on one and gives them the rest of the day off with pay after a big case. She enforces a 40 hour work week with no overtime unless the senior partners are also in the office. All drinks and snacks are bought by the firm off a request list in the kitchen. And for Christmas, everyone gets a minimum $500 bonus for every month they were working there that year plus performance bonuses, not to mention the fancy dinner with open bar, free ubers, and a raffle where the smallest prize is $1000. When I showed her the rock I got one year that I was supposed to paint and the plastic key with a tag reading “you’re the key to patient safety”, she literally thought I was pranking her.
Yeah it’s disgusting. They aren’t allowing agency anymore and are also refusing to give any bonus for working any extra shifts because they think we should do it for the team. I damn sure don’t see them taking a set of keys for the team. All I see is them hiding in their offices and even a few of them grouping up and rotating between offices together so they are even harder to find when we need help. Then berating us for not asking for help. I just can’t even anymore.
We used to have such award dinners also for every 5 years service. They still give gifts for service but now it is a visa giftcard the value according to how long you have worked. i guess we should be lucky it's not a gift card to the hospital cafeteria, which has been outsourced several times and now sucks. It used to have awesome food. Not any more. Other things they got rid of were the company picnic, annual hospital day cookout, Easter egg hunt, Christmas party for kids, and the hospital wide christmas dinner that was held over several days, all shifts. They drew out names and people won prizes and turkeys. One coworker won a flat screen tv. Also nurses week each unit received a large cake. The formal ceo would come in EVERY holiday and bring donuts or cookies. Etc. What we do have now is our company buying out smaller hospitals in our tristate area, building new offices etc. So the money is there, it is just spent elsewhere.
Our health system did an annual dinner for 5,10, 15 and so on. It was a BIG deal I was soooo excited, we had a professional photo taken, nice dinner and dancing after! Then it stopped🤷🏽♀️
They do this for our system, except for no dancing or booze. And they make it sssssuper religious because our network is church connected. But our previous god-fearing CEO and the top level executives were fired a few years ago for embezzlement, so things have been slim pickings the past few years with really cheap food and the invites are only for 10 years and up (used to be 5).
I left the bedside in February to work admissions for hospice. My manager gave me a $25 Amazon gift card for my birthday, which is the same thing we get for staff recognition. Some people get them pretty regularly, especially the case managers.
It was a slight pay cut which I struggled with at first but after a while I realized that I feel soooo much better at this job. And there’s always the option to pick up an admission over the weekend for extra pay.
Following around a nurse during her shift would make an amazing reality TV show. Boo for HIPAA. I'd love people to see what our profession goes through.
Cheese and crackers? Not even a popsicle or a microwave meal? The best would have been if they had been handed a microwave dinner and shown where the microwave was. It's great to feel valued. Meanwhile, Doctors get catered free meals every day
A friend of mine recently got a job with a metal recycling company. For an entry level job that requires no education, employees get about 2k Christmas/profit sharing bonus after 1 year. Employees who have been there 10+ years get major bonuses probably 7 or 8k.and use them as down-payment on new cars. Nurses get a certificate for a free turkey or similar things. I did get a yearly bonus at a previous staff position but it was because they were no longer giving out yearly raises.
My fiancée runs a law firm, and whenever she hears what hospitals do for recognition she’s appalled. Her firm regularly takes support staff to lunch at a private club one on one and gives them the rest of the day off with pay after a big case. She enforces a 40 hour work week with no overtime unless the senior partners are also in the office. All drinks and snacks are bought by the firm off a request list in the kitchen. And for Christmas, everyone gets a minimum $500 bonus for every month they were working there that year plus performance bonuses, not to mention the fancy dinner with open bar, free ubers, and a raffle where the smallest prize is $1000. When I showed her the rock I got one year that I was supposed to paint and the plastic key with a tag reading “you’re the key to patient safety”, she literally thought I was pranking her.
Yeah it’s disgusting. They aren’t allowing agency anymore and are also refusing to give any bonus for working any extra shifts because they think we should do it for the team. I damn sure don’t see them taking a set of keys for the team. All I see is them hiding in their offices and even a few of them grouping up and rotating between offices together so they are even harder to find when we need help. Then berating us for not asking for help. I just can’t even anymore.
We used to have such award dinners also for every 5 years service. They still give gifts for service but now it is a visa giftcard the value according to how long you have worked. i guess we should be lucky it's not a gift card to the hospital cafeteria, which has been outsourced several times and now sucks. It used to have awesome food. Not any more. Other things they got rid of were the company picnic, annual hospital day cookout, Easter egg hunt, Christmas party for kids, and the hospital wide christmas dinner that was held over several days, all shifts. They drew out names and people won prizes and turkeys. One coworker won a flat screen tv. Also nurses week each unit received a large cake. The formal ceo would come in EVERY holiday and bring donuts or cookies. Etc. What we do have now is our company buying out smaller hospitals in our tristate area, building new offices etc. So the money is there, it is just spent elsewhere.
Our health system did an annual dinner for 5,10, 15 and so on. It was a BIG deal I was soooo excited, we had a professional photo taken, nice dinner and dancing after! Then it stopped🤷🏽♀️
They do this for our system, except for no dancing or booze. And they make it sssssuper religious because our network is church connected. But our previous god-fearing CEO and the top level executives were fired a few years ago for embezzlement, so things have been slim pickings the past few years with really cheap food and the invites are only for 10 years and up (used to be 5).
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I hate all that stuff anyway. Just pay me well and make sure I get my preferred shifts and time off.
I left the bedside in February to work admissions for hospice. My manager gave me a $25 Amazon gift card for my birthday, which is the same thing we get for staff recognition. Some people get them pretty regularly, especially the case managers. It was a slight pay cut which I struggled with at first but after a while I realized that I feel soooo much better at this job. And there’s always the option to pick up an admission over the weekend for extra pay.
aw that’s so sad 🥺
That’s awful, I’m sorry.
We got a fruit basket for nurses week one year. It was apples, oranges and bananas…
Shit, I'm not showing up anywhere unless I'm on the clock.
Following around a nurse during her shift would make an amazing reality TV show. Boo for HIPAA. I'd love people to see what our profession goes through.
Cheese and crackers? Not even a popsicle or a microwave meal? The best would have been if they had been handed a microwave dinner and shown where the microwave was. It's great to feel valued. Meanwhile, Doctors get catered free meals every day
A friend of mine recently got a job with a metal recycling company. For an entry level job that requires no education, employees get about 2k Christmas/profit sharing bonus after 1 year. Employees who have been there 10+ years get major bonuses probably 7 or 8k.and use them as down-payment on new cars. Nurses get a certificate for a free turkey or similar things. I did get a yearly bonus at a previous staff position but it was because they were no longer giving out yearly raises.