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[earlene]

@earlene , you said it in about 50 words lol. I do it in a whole page, but i think yours is more effective.

These kids are driving me nuts.

we just hired a new girl with no experience except her newly obtained license. However, her mom was an RN at our hospital for 25 years, and her sister is a RRT of 22 years. Hopefully hard work at the hospital is in her blood.

I told her RRT sister that i would taker her under my wing. God i hope she is trainable. I haven't met her yet

Good luck with the new gal; if she isn't then her mom & sister would probably be mortified. It seems likely with that background she will at least get some pressure to conform to higher standards.

 

[Kiti Williams]

I don't understand the younger generation when it comes to working. Not everybody, so please don't get offended..I know there are a lot of hard working younger people out there.

I am always covering shifts for these kids because of burnout. Believe me, I know what burnout is. My example of burnout... I would work 8 shifts in 5 days and somebody asks me to work.."no sorry I am burned out."

We lost a tech because she wants a job only 3 days a week. Another tech because she "can't handle the stress of the hospital". Both of them say that they can't also take care of their houses if they work more than 3 days a week.

I feel like the old adage "when I was a kid I walked to school in 10 feet of snow in my barefeet" LOL. But no really, when I was in my twenties, I had a small child as a single mom, a mortgage, and a car payment. I was in college with three jobs to be able to send her to private school on top of college and babysitting expenses. When I graduated, I had my regular job, plus I still bartended and had a part time gig at Sears that I showed up in my scrubs. The security guards used to call me Key Tech (cause I made keys and did engraving lol). I eventually dropped Sears and worked another CT job part time instead for more money.

We are short-staffed, no doubt about it. But we have always chipped in and got it done. I have covered birthdays, valentines day, girlfriend's/boyfriend's birthdays for these kids (you know, the important stuff LOL). I hear the word burnout and jump in and grab shifts from them to retain them. My boss does the same thing. She works a double 8am-11pm every Friday and our overnight tech works Friday overnight, because none of them want to work Friday nights. I have been picking up Saturday and/or Sunday. This is all in addition to our regular schedules.

I took my first vacation (stay-cation) in FIVE years at the end of august, then ended up working on my last day off because this kid said he was burned out. Also mind you, that he signed up for that shift for a bonus that we are getting.

One of the kiddos just put in time off requests for every Sunday for the next two months. Guess who is working them? I have crazy schedules...8 on, 1 off...6 on, 1 off. (5) 8 hour shifts in a week is just too much for them. I don't understand. That's my dream bankers hours LOL.

I have a CT student (she is already a registered xray tech that works at an outpatient center). She made it clear on her first day that she does not transport patients. One of our transporters was out with covid, for the 5th time this year...if you catch my drift LOL. I am getting pounded with trauma and ER patients, and here is the student congenially waving bye from the door as I am pushing a stretcher back to the ER. I mean, she doesn't even walk with me to open doors or anything LOL. Guess who is not getting hired when she graduates . I spoke to her college clinical instructor and he said that they are absolutely allowed to transport patients, but to keep in mind that they are there to learn, and that transport is not their only role there as students...which I totally get. She just sits back down to her book.

Well, guess who is not learning either? She doesn't jump in to learn to actually scan...she sits at the desk and studies the entire time she is there. The other day she broke out the laptop. She told me that she was having a hard time with CT...I offered to help. She says "you don't understand the newer technology" LMBO really....????? I tried to explain that I keep up with technology and that I know more than she thinks I know even though I'm an oldhead. "I'm Catscankim" LOL LOL. I sent her upstairs to work with my boss lol. She's just in my way if she isn't helping.

We have a per diem tech that called out because he and his gf broke up. I guess I understand. I called out when my cat died. But then he later called out because of burnout. Then later called out because of the hurricane in Louisiana because "it was very stressful for him when he saw the news that morning". He doesn't live there, he doesn't know anybody who does. The news stressed him out. Sunday of this week he called out because he was "blowing out green snot and had a fever". He came in Monday just fine. I says "wow, nice immune system, miraculous recovery!" My boss made me shut up LOL. I dunno. Yesterday he was on his death bed...

So all these kids (who should have waaaay more energy) are burned out...and us old heads are picking up the slack. I am 50, my boss is 66, and our overnight tech is 60. I just don't understand the logic. We are the only ones pulling overtime and getting bonuses, and they are using all their vaca time for burnout...so not even working their 40 hours.

I told them...you need to keep at least 40 hours in your bank for an emergency. They sit there like "oh...I have 8 hours in my bank, I can take a day off".

It's the same thing with the nurses. They are getting paid $1400 per shift (we don't get that much) in addition to their overtime (they work 3 12-hour shifts per week normally). None of them want it. They say the money is not worth it. So here are all the old-heads picking up shifts, not just for the bonus, but because there are no nurses to work.

Me and the charge nurse in the ER today ordered a really fancy restaurant meal from Door Dash today for lunch. We are picking up all the shifts, we can afford it LOL.

There's just no work ethic here.

I do have off this whole weekend this weekend. It's my last one for a long time. I can't actually remember my last one before this, except my vacation, which was cut short by somebody who was burnt out and overwhelmed with work.

Wow, I have heard that any hospital job is like working in Hell these days, you just confirmed it. As for work ethic - Kids today abscue all "Ethics" that they do not agree to. They have no clue, and are happy that way.

 

[Orebma]

I don't understand the younger generation when it comes to working. Not everybody, so please don't get offended..I know there are a lot of hard working younger people out there.

I am always covering shifts for these kids because of burnout. Believe me, I know what burnout is. My example of burnout... I would work 8 shifts in 5 days and somebody asks me to work.."no sorry I am burned out."

We lost a tech because she wants a job only 3 days a week. Another tech because she "can't handle the stress of the hospital". Both of them say that they can't also take care of their houses if they work more than 3 days a week.

I feel like the old adage "when I was a kid I walked to school in 10 feet of snow in my barefeet" LOL. But no really, when I was in my twenties, I had a small child as a single mom, a mortgage, and a car payment. I was in college with three jobs to be able to send her to private school on top of college and babysitting expenses. When I graduated, I had my regular job, plus I still bartended and had a part time gig at Sears that I showed up in my scrubs. The security guards used to call me Key Tech (cause I made keys and did engraving lol). I eventually dropped Sears and worked another CT job part time instead for more money.

We are short-staffed, no doubt about it. But we have always chipped in and got it done. I have covered birthdays, valentines day, girlfriend's/boyfriend's birthdays for these kids (you know, the important stuff LOL). I hear the word burnout and jump in and grab shifts from them to retain them. My boss does the same thing. She works a double 8am-11pm every Friday and our overnight tech works Friday overnight, because none of them want to work Friday nights. I have been picking up Saturday and/or Sunday. This is all in addition to our regular schedules.

I took my first vacation (stay-cation) in FIVE years at the end of august, then ended up working on my last day off because this kid said he was burned out. Also mind you, that he signed up for that shift for a bonus that we are getting.

One of the kiddos just put in time off requests for every Sunday for the next two months. Guess who is working them? I have crazy schedules...8 on, 1 off...6 on, 1 off. (5) 8 hour shifts in a week is just too much for them. I don't understand. That's my dream bankers hours LOL.

I have a CT student (she is already a registered xray tech that works at an outpatient center). She made it clear on her first day that she does not transport patients. One of our transporters was out with covid, for the 5th time this year...if you catch my drift LOL. I am getting pounded with trauma and ER patients, and here is the student congenially waving bye from the door as I am pushing a stretcher back to the ER. I mean, she doesn't even walk with me to open doors or anything LOL. Guess who is not getting hired when she graduates . I spoke to her college clinical instructor and he said that they are absolutely allowed to transport patients, but to keep in mind that they are there to learn, and that transport is not their only role there as students...which I totally get. She just sits back down to her book.

Well, guess who is not learning either? She doesn't jump in to learn to actually scan...she sits at the desk and studies the entire time she is there. The other day she broke out the laptop. She told me that she was having a hard time with CT...I offered to help. She says "you don't understand the newer technology" LMBO really....????? I tried to explain that I keep up with technology and that I know more than she thinks I know even though I'm an oldhead. "I'm Catscankim" LOL LOL. I sent her upstairs to work with my boss lol. She's just in my way if she isn't helping.

We have a per diem tech that called out because he and his gf broke up. I guess I understand. I called out when my cat died. But then he later called out because of burnout. Then later called out because of the hurricane in Louisiana because "it was very stressful for him when he saw the news that morning". He doesn't live there, he doesn't know anybody who does. The news stressed him out. Sunday of this week he called out because he was "blowing out green snot and had a fever". He came in Monday just fine. I says "wow, nice immune system, miraculous recovery!" My boss made me shut up LOL. I dunno. Yesterday he was on his death bed...

So all these kids (who should have waaaay more energy) are burned out...and us old heads are picking up the slack. I am 50, my boss is 66, and our overnight tech is 60. I just don't understand the logic. We are the only ones pulling overtime and getting bonuses, and they are using all their vaca time for burnout...so not even working their 40 hours.

I told them...you need to keep at least 40 hours in your bank for an emergency. They sit there like "oh...I have 8 hours in my bank, I can take a day off".

It's the same thing with the nurses. They are getting paid $1400 per shift (we don't get that much) in addition to their overtime (they work 3 12-hour shifts per week normally). None of them want it. They say the money is not worth it. So here are all the old-heads picking up shifts, not just for the bonus, but because there are no nurses to work.

Me and the charge nurse in the ER today ordered a really fancy restaurant meal from Door Dash today for lunch. We are picking up all the shifts, we can afford it LOL.

There's just no work ethic here.

I do have off this whole weekend this weekend. It's my last one for a long time. I can't actually remember my last one before this, except my vacation, which was cut short by somebody who was burnt out and overwhelmed with work.

Yup - the work ethic commitment and responsibility just doesn't seem to be there like it was with us. The thing is we raised them - what did we do wrong????? lol

 

[BattleGnome]

I don't understand the younger generation when it comes to working. Not everybody, so please don't get offended..I know there are a lot of hard working younger people out there.

I am that generation and having similar issues. We’re down to maybe 3.5 staff in an AFC home that’s gives care 24/7. The schedule is out for the next four weeks and I have never seen one so inconsiderate. I’ll admit to being very protective of my 40 hours, preferably no more no less. I’m not sure I’ll be able to sleep this month.

I’ll admit the pay kind of sucks but no one is working. One of the staff who desperately wants full time gives away every shift she can and is chronically late to the shifts she takes. One guy (48years old) had a forced midlife change in career, works one day a week, won’t come in early or stay late, only because he’s “too young to retire.” That’s ignoring the fact he ignores all the base standards he was trained in.

everyone needs people. the problem is that no one is paying enough

 

[Catscankim]

People who are late all the time drive me nuts. The girl who I replaced on the 7am shift was late so many times, that in order to avoid firing her, they made her shift 7:15am, and she still couldn't be on time. It sucks when your relief is never there on time!!

The other day my boss asked my how do I manage clocking in every day at exactly 6:53...cause I am there at 6:45. I go pee, put my stuff away and wait at the clock to punch in.

The midnight tech said that I was spoiling him...which I replied that it isn't being spoiled just by me showing up on time. He's used to the 7:15 girl LOL.

Last week I was up late on the phone with an out of town friend. I have to go to bed by 9 or 9:30 at the latest. I didn't hit the bed until 11. My body likes a full 8 hours sleep lol. I get up at 5 so I can drive an hour to get to work at 7. This particular morning I woke up at 5:30. I was in a panic...literally brushed my hair and teeth and flew in. In the meantime I texted work that I was running late. I clocked in exactly at 7 lol. It totally ruined my day because I felt so disheveled.

On the flip side, one of the kiddos comes in late without a phone call. I'm like "welcome to work". She's all nonchalant about it "it's only 15 minutes". BUT she managed to stop by Starbucks and grab coffee. We are doomed LOL.

 

[cerelife]

@Catscankim, Oh girl!!
Our last CT student was so clueless that everyday she was there if felt like an episode of "Candid Camera" or maybe "The Twilight Zone", lol!! Like is this person for real?? How did she even make it through Xray school, much less pass her registry with this lack of basic knowledge??
She had absolutely NO concept of axial/coronal/sagittal planes even after we drew diagrams for her. If the CT machine didn't make the recons for her (like for myelograms) she had no clue. We even tried mnemonics like "Coronal is front to back - remember the O's. Sagittal is side to side - remember the S." to no avail. And forget MiPs...
And as for patient care: how does a student attend clinicals without learning the very basics of patient care?? She often left patients on the CT table after their scan to go to lunch or take a break. Umm, NO honey, this isn't how it works. You take care of your patients first - then you take care of yourself. She refused to even attempt to start IV's / had to be forced to go over medical history and get consent forms signed without one of us holding her hand / consistently confused the contrast and saline vials on the power injector when loading them.
She would ask questions like: "Do I need to do a delay scan on this?" for a noncon study even after spending 3 months in CT clinicals.
But put a doctor in the room and she was quick to question technique and attempt to showcase her vast knowledge.Yeah, she will never work here, lol!

 

[Zany_in_CO]

Re: A Millennial Job Interview: I don't know whether to laugh or cry. So sad but true.

I'm happy to be out of the workforce but still having to deal with them (please, present company excepted) over the phone on occasion. I find them to be task-oriented, soulless automatons with high pitched, fast-talking, irritating, gravely voices that grate on my ears. Their capacity for active listening, sensitivity, compassionate dialog leads me to believe they missed the chapter on "Why We Have One Mouth and Two Ears." And, in my experience, if I ask to speak to a superior, they get all huffy, just like the clueless little girl in the video.

It reminds of that scene from "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" where Dame Judy Dench applies for a job at a phone bank and is put in charge of training the youngsters the basics of social intercourse.

 

[Catscankim]

@Catscankim, Oh girl!!
Our last CT student was so clueless that everyday she was there if felt like an episode of "Candid Camera" or maybe "The Twilight Zone", lol!! Like is this person for real?? How did she even make it through Xray school, much less pass her registry with this lack of basic knowledge??
She had absolutely NO concept of axial/coronal/sagittal planes even after we drew diagrams for her. If the CT machine didn't make the recons for her (like for myelograms) she had no clue. We even tried mnemonics like "Coronal is front to back - remember the O's. Sagittal is side to side - remember the S." to no avail. And forget MiPs...
And as for patient care: how does a student attend clinicals without learning the very basics of patient care?? She often left patients on the CT table after their scan to go to lunch or take a break. Umm, NO honey, this isn't how it works. You take care of your patients first - then you take care of yourself. She refused to even attempt to start IV's / had to be forced to go over medical history and get consent forms signed without one of us holding her hand / consistently confused the contrast and saline vials on the power injector when loading them.
She would ask questions like: "Do I need to do a delay scan on this?" for a noncon study even after spending 3 months in CT clinicals.
But put a doctor in the room and she was quick to question technique and attempt to showcase her vast knowledge.Yeah, she will never work here, lol!

We had a girl training for a FULL TIME job and got a sign on bonus to boot ($8000). She had no experience and we knew it. Sometimes they are the best….sponges hanging on your every word. But this one was the worst. She was on the phone the entire time.

I was trying to teach her how to run a trauma….finally the CHIEF trauma doc says…”don't even waste your time, shes not listening to you”. She was just sitting on her phone and occasionally looking up when i would tell her to pay attn.

I am not saying every young kid is like this. My own daughter is a millennial, but she is a manager at a casino, holds two jobs, owns a house, and is super responsible…although i question this after last week because she just got her first tattoo…a reese peanutbutter cup on her wrist LOL because her chocolate lab is named Reese. Lol

 

[Daisy]

Yup - the work ethic commitment and responsibility just doesn't seem to be there like it was with us. The thing is we raised them - what did we do wrong????? lol

Some parents (with good intention!) continue to make career choices for their kids! Let the kids figure out what they'd love to do and support them.
Long time ago a friend wanted to join the nursing career- she didn't have the temperament to make a successful nurse and we advised her to consult a career coach. She became very successful in finance.

 

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[Megan]

Was so happy to get my soaping mojo back recently and then this goes and happens. A mold fell off the shelf into a fresh loaf of eucalyptus EO soap. This whole night was a disaster. I spilled probably 250 ml of this soap onto the floor before this happened because it was so liquid. I’ll post the cut tomorrow if the inside turns out any good

 

[dibbles]

@Megan I am so sorry that happened, but the soap is beautiful. I love the colors. I hope the cut makes up for the pain!

 

[ScentimentallyYours]

People who are late all the time drive me nuts. The girl who I replaced on the 7am shift was late so many times, that in order to avoid firing her, they made her shift 7:15am, and she still couldn't be on time. It sucks when your relief is never there on time!!

The other day my boss asked my how do I manage clocking in every day at exactly 6:53...cause I am there at 6:45. I go pee, put my stuff away and wait at the clock to punch in.

The midnight tech said that I was spoiling him...which I replied that it isn't being spoiled just by me showing up on time. He's used to the 7:15 girl LOL.

Last week I was up late on the phone with an out of town friend. I have to go to bed by 9 or 9:30 at the latest. I didn't hit the bed until 11. My body likes a full 8 hours sleep lol. I get up at 5 so I can drive an hour to get to work at 7. This particular morning I woke up at 5:30. I was in a panic...literally brushed my hair and teeth and flew in. In the meantime I texted work that I was running late. I clocked in exactly at 7 lol. It totally ruined my day because I felt so disheveled.

On the flip side, one of the kiddos comes in late without a phone call. I'm like "welcome to work". She's all nonchalant about it "it's only 15 minutes". BUT she managed to stop by Starbucks and grab coffee. We are doomed LOL.

Assuming you were punching a clock instead of using a time card, the trick with people who are late is to schedule them 15 minutes BEFORE their shift begins, not later. I recommended this to a client with a chronically late employee and it worked like a charm!

Some parents (with good intention!) continue to make career choices for their kids! Let the kids figure out what they'd love to do and support them.
Long time ago a friend wanted to join the nursing career- she didn't have the temperament to make a successful nurse and we advised her to consult a career coach. She became very successful in finance.

As a career coach, I have recommended that all high school students should be given temperament tests and interest tests to help them identify career clusters that would work for them. I have given these tests to college students and to adults referred for out placement after losing a job. I can’t imagine parents investing tens of thousands of dollars in an education that is a mismatch for their child, or for students taking on debt that will persist for decades. Aside from the money, think about the lost opportunities and the time investment in a mismatched education. Sound career coaching should be part of every school curriculum, in my humble opinion.

 

[Martha]

Maybe it has been said before, but what the heck with BB’s disappearing ink? Every label fades so I don’t know what color mica I’m using, what fragrance oil is in the bottle, what base oil, etc. etc. I find this really frustrating.

 

[ScentimentallyYours]

View attachment 61455Maybe it has been said before, but what the heck with BB’s disappearing ink? Every label fades so I don’t know what color mica I’m using, what fragrance oil is in the bottle, what base oil, etc. etc. I find this really frustrating.

Yes!!! I’m going through older BB fragrance oils right now and banging my head against the wall because I have no idea what they are! Probably discontinued. BB could laminate the labels with tape so we could still read them, couldn’t they? I guess from now on I will know to put tape over their labels myself.

 

[Megan]

Was so happy to get my soaping mojo back recently and then this goes and happens. A mold fell off the shelf into a fresh loaf of eucalyptus EO soap. This whole night was a disaster. I spilled probably 250 ml of this soap onto the floor before this happened because it was so liquid. I’ll post the cut tomorrow if the inside turns out any good

Here’s the cut. I’ll change it up next time and avoid any falling objects if I can.

 

[Basil]

Re: A Millennial Job Interview: I don't know whether to laugh or cry. So sad but true.

I'm happy to be out of the workforce but still having to deal with them (please, present company excepted) over the phone on occasion. I find them to be task-oriented, soulless automatons with high pitched, fast-talking, irritating, gravely voices that grate on my ears. Their capacity for active listening, sensitivity, compassionate dialog leads me to believe they missed the chapter on "Why We Have One Mouth and Two Ears." And, in my experience, if I ask to speak to a superior, they get all huffy, just like the clueless little girl in the video.

It reminds of that scene from "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" where Dame Judy Dench applies for a job at a phone bank and is put in charge of training the youngsters the basics of social intercourse.

That's one of my favorite movies

 

[Basil]

View attachment 61455Maybe it has been said before, but what the heck with BB’s disappearing ink? Every label fades so I don’t know what color mica I’m using, what fragrance oil is in the bottle, what base oil, etc. etc. I find this really frustrating.

I had the same problem...

 

[ResolvableOwl]

BB could laminate the labels with tape so we could still read them, couldn’t they? I guess from now on I will know to put tape over their labels myself.

It might well be the case that this wouldn't change much. When they are using a cheap printer that fades with time, a tape cover might not help, or even be detrimental (thermal paper?). Highest priority should be that everyone lets them know that you are annoyed by this (and that it can be dangerous, and impeding best practice to have best-by dates, batch numbers and usage rates fade). They don't alter things until their strain to invest into better printing increases.
Then write the name on everything with a non-fading pen and/or take photos of your stash (as later reference to things like lot number, or just for sentimental reasons).

Probably discontinued.

Big name for a FO! You should trademark this, otherwise I will.

 

[Zany_in_CO]

Big name for a FO! You should trademark this, otherwise I will.