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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 09:46 AM Original message |
Nurses File Lawsuit Over Time To Dress For Work |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
1. I can shit, shower, shave and dress in fifteen minutes easily.. n/t |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 09:50 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. You aren't scrubbing in, though. |
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Divernan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 09:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Putting on scrubs is different than scrubbing in. |
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joeglow3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:33 AM Response to Reply #2 |
14. Somebody watchs too many television shows. |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 02:20 PM Response to Reply #14 |
36. Curious. Do you have a clue of what it means to scrub in? |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 09:53 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Hell, it can take me 15 minutes just to shit - especially if I'm reading the paper. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:00 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Scrubs are far closer to sloppy house clothes than a business suit.. |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:03 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. If I don't read the paper on the throne, I never get to it. |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:49 AM Response to Reply #4 |
21. Hell, it takes me half an hour to FIND the paper. |
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WI_DEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 03:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
40. that is kind of a silly reply |
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Evergreen Emerald (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
3. Ironic considering that hospitals charge for every second admitted and every kleenex. |
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KatyMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 09:55 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Hospital nurses get screwed on their time all the time |
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joeglow3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:35 AM Response to Reply #5 |
15. Um, if your hospital does that, they are breaking to law. |
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Major Nikon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 01:27 PM Response to Reply #15 |
31. They can do it under certain circumstances |
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Betty88 (437 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
7. One group of guys I work with get this |
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madville (743 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
10. Seems kind of nitpicky to me but I am used to working as salary, not hourly |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:22 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. When I worked in manufacturing you had to get to work, go to locker, change clothes |
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Major Nikon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 01:37 PM Response to Reply #11 |
33. Some unions negotiated those types of deals |
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Major Nikon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 01:33 PM Response to Reply #10 |
32. 15 minutes per day adds up to 100 hours per year |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
12. If it is a requirement of the job, they should be paid for their time. PERIOD! |
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Sirveri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:28 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. This is the correct response. They are doing what they're told, so pay them. |
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joeglow3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:36 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. So, I should get paid for wiping my ass? |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 12:39 PM Response to Reply #16 |
26. In this context, it is more like your employer requiring a non-odorous backside... |
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Major Nikon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 02:52 PM Response to Reply #16 |
37. I always try to take a shit on company time |
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Sirveri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-12-11 01:34 AM Response to Reply #16 |
41. If you use the bathroom on company time, you already have been. |
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Logical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:42 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. My job requires a suit, should work pay me to get dressed in the morning and pay for the suit? Just. |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:43 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. if your job required you to change once you got to work? (nt) |
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Logical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:51 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Why does it matter where I change? |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:58 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. In my case, you could not take uniforms at home, but you had to be in uniform to clock in |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:58 AM Response to Reply #18 |
25. You can wear your suit all day long, you can go to dinner in your suit, fill up your tank, etc.. |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
17. Inescapable consequence of for-profit hospital ownership and weak labor laws. |
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madville (743 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
20. Aren't they kind of screwing themselves by having to get to work even earlier and stay later? |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
23. The key to this is that the scrubs cannot leave the hospital, they have to be taken on and off |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 02:18 PM Response to Reply #23 |
35. If nothing else, it will give the hospital an incentive ... |
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w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
27. I worked in interventional radiology |
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Supply Side Jesus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
28. good luck with that |
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iris27 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
29. In college, I worked as a nurse's aide at the same hospital where my mom works as an ICU nurse. |
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iris27 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
30. delete - dupe |
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snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
34. ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 03:28 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. Funny isn't it? Why should people expect to be paid when they are required to be at work? |
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GreenTea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Nov-11-11 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
38. Nurse's are so over-worked, ALWAYS short-staffed & underpaid, but NOT the doctors & hospitals! |
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