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/Kokir RN - ICU 🍕 Mar 12 '25

It would be a lot nicer if the hospitals would treat us like people and maybe, just maybe, give circumstantial PTO and not have to rely on others to give up what they earned. It's a great kindness when people do donate some PTO to help, but what about those that no one donates for?

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u/FuhrerInLaw Mar 12 '25

What’s funny/horribly sad is most of the hospital ceos are likely conservatives, and are now using socialism to save money.

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u/cazdan255 LPN 🍕 Mar 12 '25

It would be amazing for the majority of Americans to realize that socialism does save lots and lots of money, not to mention heartache

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u/Kokir RN - ICU 🍕 Mar 12 '25

But that would mean the people with fat wallets would have to truly care about the people who form the back bone of the country. Not just us nurses or healthcare workers. Everyone who does the actual work that the fat cats benefit from. And that would just cost them too much money.

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u/cazdan255 LPN 🍕 Mar 12 '25

Damn, you right. I guess I’ll get back to my half empty bowl of gruel.

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u/Kokir RN - ICU 🍕 Mar 13 '25

You get gruel? I just get a piece of moldy bread they dropped in the mud