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October 14, 2021, 6:07 am
Much has been made this year about the worker shortage happening across the United States. While it seems to have mostly affected the restaurant and retail industries, any industry that requires interacting with, well, people has likely taken some sort of hit — especially businesses that aren’t treating their employees as well as they should.
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While the pandemic is obviously the major culprit here, the root cause is still generally a lack of job satisfaction. But rather than realize or acknowledge that, some employers have instead doubled down on trying to rule their remaining employees with an iron fist with the crazy idea that that will actually stop more from leaving.
A nurse on Twitter shared an image of how his workplace is apparently dealing with all the chaos of the past two years, and it’s not exactly inspiring.
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“No Time Off Requests will be accepted from November 20, 2021 until January 2, 2022,” the sign reads, essentially forbidding workers to take time off for any of the winter holidays.
@Progressive_RN, who posted the image, clarified that he works in bedside nursing, rather than a holiday-driven industry like retail, and doesn’t see any actual need for a demand like this.
“Because we generally work 3 [12 hour shifts] per week, less than half the employees are ever working on a particular day,” he wrote. “So make a holiday rotation, and whoever isn’t working that holiday can have some days off. It’s not that complicated.”
Inpatient nursing. Volume in this department wouldn’t typically surge around the holidays, there’s no need for extra staff and therefore no need to deny anyone vacation. It’s just a weird, bad decision.
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Nurse D (@Progressive_RN) October 13, 2021
Regardless, the sign prompted a number of angry responses about how businesses continue to mistreat their employees — and how they’ve gotten away with it for so long.
Yup. Exactly what they do every time though
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This
should be the viral tweet here. Well f*cking said.
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Some folks are even sharing their own experiences with things like this, and there are plenty of stories.
D’sney pulled this shit. If you called out the day before or after a holiday you lost your holiday pay. Almost never approved PTO around holidays either. Good luck ever getting to spend Christmas with your family.
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Cyrus
Erhardt Stan!
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All in all, people agreed that it’s just unnecessary and seems to show a company that doesn’t care about its employees, just what they can do for the company.
They should hire additional workers who want to work that time period, even if it means paying a premium hourly rate, and allow regular workers to be off if they want. It’s perfectly doable, they just don’t want to.
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*First Published: October 14, 2021, 6:07 am
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