#work nightmares

[neverland-royaltie]

This is a notice to everyone.

DO. NOT. GO. INTO. HEALTHCARE.

especially right now. It’s draining mentally, emotionally and physically. I’ve been a CNA/GNA for five and a half years. I’ve loved my job up until COVID hit. I loved helping people and seeing them get better, and hated crying with my coworkers when others passed. But I’ve also been hit, kicked, called slurs, been punched and given a concussion, and had my scrub top literally ripped off of me and my supervisor refused to let me go get another (even tho I live a few minutes away). Last night I explained to someone that I want them to do as much as they can, so they get better. I’ve seen them get up and do things on their own, and they begin to gaslight both me and my coworkers. Telling me that I should not be in this profession. (Note, I am one of the people that works my ass off. I’ve done 20 day stretches because of how short we were and how desperate staffing is.) that set something off in me. I broke. I helped them with what they needed and ran to the bathroom sobbing. I could not keep it together. When the director of nursing came in, I explained the situation. I explained how I feel abused at this job, we are all burnt out and I was quite literally crying for help. I explained how I almost walked out of the job. I also explained I have been in the ER and to the doctor multiple times for severe pain from my job. All I got in response was “I’m glad you didn’t”. Management doesn’t care about us. They care that the patients are content and they are getting money. I couldn’t breathe and she just stood there and stared at me. They work us shorter and shorter every day. Then beg us to come in for “bonus money” because people call out. These conditions are unbearable. We have had multiple people walk out on the job, knowing they will lose any certification they have. We have waves of people quitting every week it seems, and understandably so. The expectations are too high for such few staff. And we are given more to do every day. Whatever you do. Healthcare is not worth it anymore. It’s constant burnout and you’re never guaranteed days to yourself. There is so much more I can share. But I’ll keep it at this. If you have any questions as my experience as an aide, feel free to ask away.

[howlingbarnes]

If you want to know how much I've been working, think about the fact that this morning I was half in, half out of sleep and was fighting out of being buried in blankets which my brain genuinely thought was a pile of menus

[pinkandblackcomic]

Pink & Black 197

[thriftstoregoofs]

another work dream last night.

dreamt that i saw a customer (a woman, like 60) kneeling on the floor, (in the women's cut longsleeves aisle) basket piled high with clothes, (many tags in an array of colors plainly visible) a pile of color tags on the ground in front of her (the green and the blue, which in the context of the dream i knew were the 50¢ and 75% off colors that week specifically)(notably not the colors for this week though), and a tagging gun to her left.

i come upon this scene in my dream, as she is copying the information from an orange tag to a blue tag, and i say to her, "ma'am... where did you get all of these tags?" not trying to accuse her of anything. just expressing curiosity. as is our policy for suspicious behavior.

"from my car??" she replies, as if this is the most obvious answer.

"what exactly are they for?" i ask.

"uhhh." ... "for my personal records?" less assuredly i notice.

".... okay, well, that's not really allowed here. i can't really have you sitting on the floor, copying the information from one tag to another, you know?"

"well why NOT? why can't i have my own tags? i brought them!"

"because they're exact the same colors as our tags? and the most discounted color tags this week, at that. and unfortunately due to our policies, now that i have seen you with all of these re-tagging supplies, if you come up to the register with only tags of these two colors, i can't sell any of it to you."

at this point in my watery dream vision she is suddenly standing up and yelling in my face that 'how dare i accuse her of switching tags' and to 'go get my manager'.

mind you, i am the manager. but she would not hear any of this, because this is a dream. so. i make my way into the backroom, (which in this dream, is impossibly large and expands for seemingly forever into the abyss. there are at least three staircases there that do not exist, but i have to focus. i cannot explore them. even though i really want to.) and i locate the nearest of my higher-ups after navigating this labyrinthine dream version of work. i explain to him what i saw, and we teleport out to the sales floor together.

and the customer is at the register, frantically checking over her shoulder while my coworker is ringing her out. she sees me and starts shoving the things he's already rung in into her bag. i arrive at the register. i look at her remaining items. they all have 50¢ and 75% off color tags on them. and i look at her. and she looks at me. and i say to her "do you think that i am fucking stupid?"

and then i wake up.

i think this may have been a prophecy. a warning. an omen of things to come.

[nicoleprins]

I had a dream last night that my current supervisor pulled me into his office and was trying to make light out of a situation at work turning into a lawsuit. The whole time he was talking to me is “do I resign on the spot now? Do I wait this out and then resign?” And all I could feel was pure firey anger.... I even had to sign a document and when I went to read it, it was a bad carbon copy and the wording didn’t make sense which then made me realize I was dreaming..... I haven’t had a work nightmare in a while but they always included my old supervisor and not my current one. I know it derives from feeling that when push comes to shove, they will not have my back.

[peace-love-bacongrease]

Work Nightmares

Does anyone else dream about their job? Like just dreaming about a normal shift? How about work nightmares? I have nightmares about the crazy-ass guests we get tbh.

[wonderfulmangotea]

Tea dreams

I had a dream the creep at my work kept bugging me and sitting too close for comfort and finally I just lost it and started yelling at him to get the fuck away from me, just leave me the fuck alone you creep!! And he was all like "Whoa calm down you crazy woman" And I just calmly looked at him and said "do not come near me ever again" or something like that.

[thestarfishdancer]

When Work Makes You Feel Like Life Is Some Sort of Dark Comedy

The New Guy is almost one month into the job.  I don’t think he’s been in the office a full work day yet.  If he has, the number of times is fewer than the fingers on one hand. And that’s generous.  Today, he went out for lunch.  He did not come back. HE DID NOT COME BACK. One of the reasons the hiring committee picked him instead of the other qualified candidates was because it seemed like he would be able to pick up the file and run with it fairly quickly. And maybe he could, if he was around to try, or cared to try. Instead, I’m still managing some of the work of the side of my desk, another colleague is picking up where she can, and the rest of it mostly isn't getting done. I get that personal  things sometimes crop up, but every day for the first month of a brand new job?      I feel a little bad for my new manager. He wasn’t involved in the hiring and now is stuck dealing with this (oh God, I hope he is dealing with this). However not bad enough that I’ll stick around indefinitely through this.