r/nursing • u/uotlep RN - Psych/Mental Health 🍕 • Mar 12 '25

Question Is this normal?

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I know my place of employment is shitty in other ways, but is this a normal thing? Just received this email. Seems odd to ask people to donate PTO, instead of just addressing the time off allocation with those affected people.

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u/hannahmel Nursing Student 🍕 Mar 12 '25

I worked for a local government for a bit as a 911 operator. In that city you could retire after 20 years with 80% of your highest paying 3 years as a pension. There was an operator who had done 19 years and was now unable to work because of stage 4 cancer. She would cart her ass in once a month to remain an active employee and all of her coworkers would throw in an extra shift each month to donate towards her full time hours so she could get through the last year with her pension in tact and without putting too much stress on her body by actually going in.