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Could you imagine seeing headlines about people dying because of people like you walking out during a crisis? And knowing you contributed to those deaths? And w
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
Could you imagine seeing headlines about people dying because of people like you walking out during a crisis? And knowing you contributed to those deaths? And where are you going to go? Switch industries in the middle of this? Because if you stay in healthcare, walking out of your single facility doesn't even get you away from the pandemic. I have friends burning out in healthcare, being paid terribly, but sticking it out because it's a fucking pandemic and people are dying. Try some empathy.
It's much more standard for people to just walk away when the moral stakes are low, like they tend to be in tech. If someone can't log into HN because you walked out, who cares? But just because it's money-or-walk in our industry doesn't mean that's how it is for others.
- bserge 6y agoThey can just quit. But not because they're bad people. When you're really burned out, you don't give half a fuck about anything. It can be the choice between staying and jumping off a bridge one night, or just leaving. I hope not many people experience that kind of stress, but if you do, just walk out. It's always an option.
- falcolas 6y ago> just walk out. It's always an option. Not everybody has the same job mobility people on this site do. Walking out could very well result in homelessness for many RNs. Freedom isn't very free when your other choice is to lose the basics you need for survival.
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- applegarw86 6y agoHow’s Facebook treating ya?
- lotsofpulp 6y agoI wholeheartedly support nurses and nursing assistances walking away. Because society has shown that we don’t value their work enough to pay them enough to attract people to the job. Nursing homes are run on shoe string budgets, those people changing bed pans are well in their moral rights to strike and demand better pay. I don’t see anyone lining up to do their job. It’s also a bit rich for people who don’t work these important, getting your hands dirty jobs to judge people walking out on them. It’s society’s moral failing to not properly allocate resources to them.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y agoI don't judge people walking out. I'm pushing back on people who judge people for not walking out, like 'they had it coming, why didn't they just walk out?' My GF is in this position right now, where walking out would mean switching industries in a pandemic, because other facilities aren't any better off. She's burnt out as hell, and puts up with an enormous amount of shit to make patients lives better, so I'm sensitive to anything that sounds like "well they had it coming for not walking out." > It’s society’s moral failing to not properly allocate resources to them. God damned right.
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- lotsofpulp 6y agoUnfortunately, this is a "you get what you negotiate" world. So unless the nurses strike when they have the leverage, I don't see the situation improving for them. For example: https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/workers-go-on-strike-at-11-nursing-homes-in-illinois-demanding-higher-wages-and-covid/article_d2be3674-5cff-5053-b922-8a02e052f9fc.html https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/workers-go... >The members of SEIU Healthcare Illinois and Indiana said they were seeking pay of $15.50 an hour for CNAs, and about $15 an hour for housekeepers and other workers, and hazard pay as essential workers during the pandemic. Who can raise a family on less than $15 per hour? And we want to pay people that for dealing with people's bodily excretions? Not to mention the less than cooperative mental state sick and old people may be in due to their pain?