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Travis_0004

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10. Its kind of necessary in that line of work

Reply to Initech (Reply #5)

Sun Jul 17, 2016, 05:01 PM

Jul 2016

I have a friend who is a nurse, and she has days where she is on call (and gets a small amount of pay while on call, and extra pay if she is called in).

Its kind of goes with that job though. A hospital can't tell people to come back tomorrow.

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