I enjoyed reading your post, but Im the laziest sob to ever walk on earth and while I can promise to pay attention, I don’t believe I’m gonna follow through.

do you have any advice for me, now that I’m applying and might work elsewhere? Is there anything I could ask during interviewing to indicate I loathe drama, people full of themselves talking politics or conspiracies or openly discussing how vaginas look like?

I assume that’s an old pillowcase?

I’ve worked in jobs with plenty of downtime, but have never worked in one where I could just wander off to exercise or read a book openly. I was expected to be finding things to do or to at least appear busy and engaged.

good point, this changes the calculus

The only thing that maintains sanity is having something to do to distract yourself

I don’t see why reading or writing poetry don’t accomplish that

I don’t know if you’re complaining but if you are, I don’t understand you. I want to be you.

earning money doing almost nothing is meaningless? You earn money for doing nothing! and you cannot be fired, so…

do these jobs you got later pay you better?

thank you for your detailed post and the off topic bits, helpful as well

right, 2014 mbp, 11.1, 8 GB RAM

thank you very much for your helpful post

calm down

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would you write what flavor you use?

thanks

thank you

but it’s officially on record that you’ll speak up while others quietly work

why would I want to work where people try destroying my credibility behind my back? This is not something I’m willing to overlook.

If HR acts like you described, if I’m that replaceable to them, so is my workplace.

The others don’t work quietly, btw.

ETA: wait, are you implying this is normalized? Employees do actually say nothing not to land in hot water, because they’re afraid of being fired and are willing to overlook the gossip and backstabbing for a check? Not for me.

BUT if I’m charting that the patient took the medication, I’m 100% standing there to witness it because I’m not just gonna trust them on it and potentially falsely document.

What do you tell your patients that are in this gray zone where they don’t outright refuse the medication, but delay taking it, so they comply?

Have you never engaged in a staring contest until that happens? Don’t you waste too much time? Doesn’t the patient get angry?

DON’T blindly trust patients.

help me out:

I like helping competent people: they come to me with a problem and I look for a solution. If I don’t know the answer, I ask those who know it. I inform the patient about what I find out because they have a right to know and usually want to know and get better and they get proactive the more information they have. I help other adults solve problems.

Treating competent adults like little liars is something I’ve never done and I don’t believe I can work nursing if my daily routine is gonna be like this.

Maybe I’m very easy to manipulate? But if nursing means I have to treat the patient not as a person who comes for help, as a person I can trust but as an enemy trying to make my life difficult and lying to me, I need another job or to quit bedside.

but in a group so decidedly left leaning, doesn’t that make them a group of posers?

doesn’t sound being consistent imho.