My first job was in a nursing home. I lasted three weeks.
First let me say, the place was horrible and the state shut it down a week after I left, so my experiences tend to the dramatic.
I’ve worked Medical IT for a long time and I have to say, even in IT, patient care is a priority.
I’ve told a president of the company they can go fuck themselves because a patient needed assistance. Thankfully, they saw my point (this was not the nursing home)
All that said, this nursing home was awful. I washed dishes. That was it. I didn’t have to bus trays, or any of it, it all got dumped on my sink and I washed it. I got paid minimum wage, and had difficulty with things like taking a state mandated lunch break. Yeah.
I got dishes back from both the lunch room and the guest rooms.
The stuff that came back from guest rooms haunted me.
We’re talking about a person who has lost the plot, so to speak, and is not sensible; stuffing mashed potatoes and napkins into a cup and it festered. I don’t mean like, it was room temperature and gross - thats whatever. The shit that came from their rooms was a biohazard.
Medical work is gross, and grueling, but at the end of the day, maybe you helped someone. I wasn’t clinical, but I spent enough time in patient rooms fixing stuff to get to know a few.
I didn’t cure their condition, but when a child wakes up screaming in a hospital bed, sometimes its just an IT guy who is there to calm them down, let them know their situation (as best you can, I don’t have their medical info) so they stop freaking and pulling out IVs and sensors and shit.
I quit my job as a caregiver for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to make more money… working in retail.
Wait, you just described working in retail. What were you doing before?
It’s retail all the way down.
I mean, at the lowest level, it’s probably just tail
My first job was in a nursing home. I lasted three weeks.
First let me say, the place was horrible and the state shut it down a week after I left, so my experiences tend to the dramatic.
I’ve worked Medical IT for a long time and I have to say, even in IT, patient care is a priority.
I’ve told a president of the company they can go fuck themselves because a patient needed assistance. Thankfully, they saw my point (this was not the nursing home)
All that said, this nursing home was awful. I washed dishes. That was it. I didn’t have to bus trays, or any of it, it all got dumped on my sink and I washed it. I got paid minimum wage, and had difficulty with things like taking a state mandated lunch break. Yeah.
I got dishes back from both the lunch room and the guest rooms.
The stuff that came back from guest rooms haunted me.
We’re talking about a person who has lost the plot, so to speak, and is not sensible; stuffing mashed potatoes and napkins into a cup and it festered. I don’t mean like, it was room temperature and gross - thats whatever. The shit that came from their rooms was a biohazard.
Medical work is gross, and grueling, but at the end of the day, maybe you helped someone. I wasn’t clinical, but I spent enough time in patient rooms fixing stuff to get to know a few.
I didn’t cure their condition, but when a child wakes up screaming in a hospital bed, sometimes its just an IT guy who is there to calm them down, let them know their situation (as best you can, I don’t have their medical info) so they stop freaking and pulling out IVs and sensors and shit.