Comments by seakmr
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Posted on March 18 at 8:27 p.m.
Adding to my previous post, I stand corrected. I actually hold down 2 jobs and my husband 1 job and we still barely can pay the bills! So as I said, I am not rich and none of the nurses I work with are either.
Posted on March 18 at 8:12 p.m.
supertrucker--apparently you know nothing about nursing. We get our hands and everything else dirty everyday we work by cleaning patients, being vomited on, amniotic fluid splashing on us, or blood. There are alot of single parents working at NRMC that would be devastated by pay cuts, layoffs, or closure of the hospital. This is our livelihood. Would you not be impacted if you lost your job? Receiving unemployment compensation does not make a dent in rising costs of utilities, food, and gas. I think it is downright hateful for you to say these things about the employees. If you were to come in to the ER in a real emergency, those employees would not think twice about trying to save your life. I can tell you from experience working in Labor and Delivery, I do physical labor everyday. My patients usually have an epidural and are numb from the waist down. I have to physically move them in the bed myself and believe me I am very short and not muscular at all. I take very good care of my patients. I put my patients first always. I can tell you I don't think I have every had a patient complain about me performing poor service.
Posted on March 18 at 8:02 p.m.
supertrucker--Who are these rich greedy people you speak of? Surely not the nurses? I can assure you I am not rich, not even close. My husband lost his job when Johns Manville shut down. This was at the time I was finishing my last semester of nursing school. We also had a baby that was 1 month premature during that time. Guess what...because we could not afford to cobra his insurance I had to pay out of my own pocket for my delivery and expenses. I could not get Medicaid. I am still paying on my NRMC hospital bill every paycheck. My husband now has to work in Jackson and is gone all week long away from his family because he had to find a better paying job to help support our family. Even with 2 jobs the bills pile up. Most of my bills are medical bills even though I have insurance through NRMC. Insurance does not cover everything.
Posted on March 18 at 2:54 p.m.
Supertrucker--Just what do you do for a living? Based on your ideas and poor grammar, I bet you are a poor performer!
Posted on March 18 at 2:48 p.m.
Supertrucker--apparently spelling was not your best subject in school. We are supposed to take your ideas into consideration when you can't even spell simple words? When you say you have to know someone to be hired by NRMC you are wrong. I was hired as a nurse's aid while I was in nursing school. When I graduated from nursing school I applied for a full-time job there. I did not know anyone working in Human Resources. What I do know is to get a job at NRMC, you have to fill out a job application. On this application, you have to write things. This is something you obviously would be incapable of doing based on your blogs!
Posted on March 17 at 9:32 p.m.
NRMC also needs to cut out free meals for all the doctors. They should get the same discount as all the employees get. I bet one of the next cuts will be employee discounts on meals. Don't get me wrong, the doctors I work with are wonderful, but I would think the doctors could afford their meals more than the regular employees.
Posted on March 17 at 9:24 p.m.
If I'm not mistaken, commutingnurse used that person's username which happens to be her real name.
Taking a cut from NRMC employee's pay is wrong. We should not have to pay for the sins of the people who have made unwise decisions over and over. Is it really true that the doctors and management did not receive pay cuts? NRMC needs to get rid having a hospitalist position. Doctors should be made to see their own patients, not a doctor who knows nothing about a patient. My grandmother is scared of having to go in the hospital because she knows her doctor does not admit to the hospital and the hospitalist would be the one seeing her. Her doctor is an employee of NRMC, but does not admit patients. What kind of logic is that?
I feel sorry for the housekeepers and non-nursing employees who will barely be making minimum wage after this pay cut. How are they supposed to take care of their families?
Posted on March 14 at 12:58 p.m.
ashleyking---and just where have you "sucked it up" to work...or are you like many people in this town and are unemployed?
Posted on March 2 at 7:03 p.m.
snatchez- I corrected you the other day on this, now get it right. NRMC employees DO NOT get FREE dental OR FREE health insurance. I know this for a fact because I pay $113 every paycheck which equals $226 per month or sometimes more JUST for health insurance for my entire family. Dental is extra if you want it. Nothing is free for employees of NRMC. We have to buy our food in the cafeteria just like everyone else with a slight discount (10%), so basically that comes down to not paying sales tax. As for the retirement, we put in 7% of our own money. The hospital puts in 11%. We work hard for this money and rarely get raises. I work with one nurse who has been here for almost 25 years and she barely makes more than me. So don't you think we deserve some type of reward/benefit for saving lives? It sounds as though you are hung up on this retirement issue. Am I sensing some sort of jealousy?
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Posted on March 18 at 8:43 p.m.
For once I agree with supertrucker. I know I am waiting to see if I get my pay Thursday.
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