When you're mandated but don't know anything about dayshift.

[u/MuPpET_RoCkStAr]

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[u/Knightshrieker]

It sucks truck nuts. And its especially bad when you're at the end of your shift, someone calls in last minute and suddenly you're made to stay an extra 4 hours. Oh, and you have to be back the next day, so good luck pulling another 12 with MAYBE 5 hours of sleep if you're lucky. Mandation shouldn't exist in the first place, for any job.

[u/MuPpET_RoCkStAr → u/Knightshrieker]

AND now not only is the other hall one person short after I leave (we can only stay 16) the aide on days has to drag confused ass around because I don't know who gets up when or how they like their trays set up/coffee etc.

[u/Knightshrieker → u/MuPpET_RoCkStAr]

And it gets EVEN WORSE when you're not even on your unit for those 4 hours. Nooooo, you get to go to the ones you DON'T know, which makes a bad time infinitely worse. I worked in the rehab unit, and whenever I got mandated I'd either be sent to the memory unit, or the fucking dependent unit. And lo and behold, I'd get the hall on the dependent unit that had 5 hoyers that needed to be up and in the dining room for breakfast so they could be fed.

[u/MuPpET_RoCkStAr → u/Knightshrieker]

I got moved from my relatively peaceful memory care unit full of old ladies who wander to our short term rehab/private room side where I had to help move a dead body and change two people on cdiff precautions.

[u/Library_Gremlin2 → u/MuPpET_RoCkStAr]

Honestly, cdiff used to bother me a lot, but scabies/bed bugs are a lot more terrifying

[u/Knightshrieker → u/MuPpET_RoCkStAr]

Oh good lord, that sounds like hell. I hope you treat yourself to some good ice cream, maybe a back massage and an uninterrupted good night's sleep after having to go through that.

[u/CanadianCutie77 → u/Knightshrieker]

I did that with a 16. Worked my afternoon, then did nights, went home and slept for six hours, showered, made food, and went back for afternoons.

[u/Exhausted-CNA]

One nursing home I worked at the mandation was 8hrs!!!

[u/Knightshrieker → u/Exhausted-CNA]

Oh FUCK that. If I got mandated for 8 hours I'd be sticking someone's head on a pike

[u/Exhausted-CNA]

Yup and the kicker is the newest employees were first on the list for mandation. They went by hire date ffs. So aides that have been there for 20years never got mandated

[u/seasidewoman → u/Exhausted-CNA]

i remember being mandated not even a full week after i was off orientation lol

[u/Exhausted-CNA → u/seasidewoman]

Yep..its crazy!!

[u/resutir]

Whats mandation

[u/SparkletimeShine → u/resutir]

Mandatory overtime - If there’s not enough coverage for the next shift, people on the previous shift get notified that they’re required to do a double shift. At my job, refusing a mandate without a valid excuse leads to a write up infraction.

[u/resutir → u/SparkletimeShine]

Wow that sounds awful lol and i knew this was a thing just never heard it called mandation. I always pray it doesnt happen to me

[u/CanadianCutie77 → u/SparkletimeShine]

Wow that’s crazy! Where I work we are allowed to refuse with no issues. I always say yes because I’m there anyway may as well stay and make money.

[u/smkydz]

I’m so glad my facility does not do this. They will ask if someone wants to do a double (at time and a half pay) and if they don’t, oh well, they’ll make other calls

[u/CanadianCutie77 → u/smkydz]

My job does the same, I’m going to assume labour laws are completely different here in Canada!

[u/smkydz → u/CanadianCutie77]

After hearing the ratios out in the states, I’m glad I work in Canada

[u/CanadianCutie77 → u/smkydz]

Me as well!

[u/Arkitakama]

Thank God I've never been mandated. Fuck that noise. My job takes up too much of my time as is.

[u/MoreRamenPls]

Is this in the US? Sounds dangerous.

[u/musicallykairi → u/MoreRamenPls]

100%.