I’m not happy with the phrasing I chose for the title but I couldn’t come with anything better.
It’s me again, the guy hired to move beds in a hospital, a unit where nurses keep giving me duties out of my job description, nurses who consider me their servant.
Moving people and beds is a chill job I like and I have no problem doing it, doing it according to the job description they presented me during the interview. I want my pauses, I want to go home on time, I want my overtime paid.
From day one the nurses there started treating me like I’m their servant, ordering me to do their job like finding charts, calming patients, toileting them, pausing infusions…
I informed management who basically ignored me, because I’m expected to be a team player. During the interview they never said I’d be doing so much stuff out of my job description daily, it’s like they consciously lied to me because they’re desperate for anyone with a pulse and hoped I wouldn’t stir the pot because they know I need the money. They expect me to work as a nursing assistant when there are no patients to move and to do my job when a patient needs to be moved.
I’m not doing 2 jobs being paid just for 1.
There’s more: Turns out to them, if I’m eating something while waiting for my next assignment I’m automatically on my pause, but I’m expected to jump each time they have a patient to move. Management actually confirmed this and apparently, nurses there work like that.
Call it malicious compliance, work to rule, half ass it, but starting tomorrow I’m using every trick you can give me to work as slow as I can, to hide as much as I can, because these fuckers don’t deserve anything better.
Half assing has to be covert, because as long as I don’t have another job lined up they have the upper hand.
If I wanted to overwork for no extra money, don’t have a full 30 minute pause, having to constantly shuffle people, to have 3 conversations simultaneously, to have people lie to my face, be a hero and a team player I’d have applied as a nurse.
You may want to find a different job. This one does not suit you or your idea of what it should be.
If you were an independent contractor you could sit all day till your contracted duty comes up. But with the job you took with the employer had notes that they will ask you to do other duties; this is what this job is. Here we call it a porter, and it can be pushing a patient to treatment, delivering med to another floor, bringing a binder to the lab…whatever needs doing basically.
Many people prefer to be busy so they day goes by fast, and so normally taking on a duty when it’s not your specific job is well received. In your case it sounds like you don’t enjoy that part. So dude find a new job.
You are on here a lot complaining about work, its time to take action rather than look for validation for the friction your stance is creating between you and staff at work.
I’m not saying one way or the other is the correct way to work, just that this job doesn’t suit you.
And I’m not hating on your for your choice because I see both sides. My wife was a union rep at her work and she’s very by the book / work duty and everything else is someone else’s role. Where as my job is very fluid. I was hired specifically for expertise on a software to help get customers solutions and training on that software. But it can also be sales, or traveling to do presentations, or doing a customer process audit, or video editing and sound production, or documentation, or CAD modeling for clients, or automating their workflow, sometimes a customer is around the globe so instead of 9am I join a meeting at 5am (means I end work at 1pm instead of 5pm), And I’ve even been contacted out of my company to work directly at another company to do whatever they needed. Point is I don’t care what the paper says I was hired for, they are all opportunity to make my day go by fast and learn something different.
Find a job that encourages you to expand your horizons, or one that suits your “I only get up to do the exact task” role.