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Cake day: February 20th, 2025
  • ricesoup@lemmy.mlOPtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•so how do I work to rule, malicious complain, half ass my job?English
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    29 days ago

    If you hired a contractor to work on your house, and one guy just stood around waiting to do his part, and declined to help his peers to make the process more efficient, but you had to pay his regular rate, I bet you would be annoyed.

    You mean a contractor with a crew and one crew member sits around, right?

    if I hired a contractor I wouldn’t sing the contract with the crew, but with the chief contractor, whatever that position is called. It is not my job to police my contractor’ employees. Any issues I’d have regarding construction I’d solve with said chief contractor, not with any guy who stood around.

    I know nothing about construction but I know everyone needs a pause or to rethink and coordinate how to do something, which means workers are not constantly toiling so me jumping to conclusions and being annoyed because all I see is an employee standing around would be very stupid.

    This is a false analogy.

  • ricesoup@lemmy.mlOPtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•so how do I work to rule, malicious complain, half ass my job?English
    31·
    29 days ago

    this is a boundaries issue

    I only work because I need the money. If I was rich I wouldn’t work. I don’t overwork for anyone unless I’m paid more, something my manager is not doing.

    you actively resist being given additional work even when you aren’t currently doing anything

    because what I do is what later becomes an expectation: you mean he can toilet patients? he is toileting patients from now on.

    you don’t offer help to coworkers when you have the ability and they have a need

    I’m copypasting from a previous post: I search for patients (because my job is to transport them, not to find them), move empty beds to be cleaned, calm patients, bring them blankets, take them to the toilet… I do this because sometimes it gets so boring because the charge doesn’t give me any assignment, so I’m open to lend a hand, but then the charge gets a call and I get 5 assignments at the same time (and they don’t lend a hand).

    They don’t help preparing the patient for transportation, most of the cases I have to look for the patient’s files because nobody knows who has them, they don’t help moving the patient to the examination table (the fat, demented ones you need 3 people to move), moving him to a unit 1400 yards away (which is my job, something I have no problem doing), pausing infusions or bringing oxygen to the patient’s bed before transporting him…

    I don’t mind helping a bit, but things that should happen occasionally happen every day.

    they also don’t help when other units are understaffed and I have to wait for a nurse to come or hear how they decide who should help me transfer the patient because me being a man means I should do it alone.

    and you openly flaunt these facts by using your downtime (even when not officially on a pause) to write poetry or otherwise not do work in locations where your coworkers and manager can see you doing it.

    that’s the place my manager told me I may wait for my next assignment. It can get boring very fast.

    This seems to be an expectations issue: I think the rns on the unit expect me to be their servant and go several extra miles for them with no extra pay whatsoever, but I only want to do my job according to the job description they presented me during the interview when they told me doing other chores would mean helping the rns reposition patients in bed.

    Going extra miles don’t mean more money for me, so what’s my motivation?

    I like your post and at the same time I don’t believe many people will read this wall of text.

    do you go above and beyond for your job?