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.

and at what point does one feel stuck in a job?

what I've done so far is look for job postings using my current workplace's computers but I can only do that during downtime and when I have a computer near me.

It doesn't feel like looking, it's more comparing what I've got with what I may have.

Reading job descriptions is not really very helpful because a written description doesn't tell you anything about work culture, how often people there go smoking, how often people call in sick, how people are (bullying) or if people at the new workplace are going to exploit you as a disposable tool. I believe most times managers simply don't know what's going on on the floor and simply believe who they want to believe.

To me looking for a job means, after your shift, going home and aggressively engaging in job searching and the most tiring part, writing resumes for AI to discard you.

I'm not there yet.

Am I doing this right?

2 issues:

I work transporting patients on beds from the ER to whatever ward or department they need to be brought to for their explorations. While I was moving a senile patient on a bed to radiology, a doctor approached me telling me I need to find a bed because they’re out of beds and an emergency was coming. I told her that’s not my job and that I’ve already brought in beds to the ER, even though that’s not my job. She kept pestering me with it, I told her my job is to transport patients and to contact my manager if she has complains. I also told her I had 3 patients to transport after the senile one and asked her if I should stop those assignments and look for beds for her first. She started accusing me of disrespecting her and asked if I know who she is. I told her I have things to do and proceeded to work.

Where I work this happens quite often: there are 2 doctors who believe everyone around her is their servant and must stop at once doing his job to assist them. Looking for beds is not in my job description.

The other issue is with some ER nurses. I’m a RN, worked in this same ER as a nurse but no longer work bedside (and will never work bedside again). Sometimes my job moving patients is quiet, meaning 40 minutes with not a single patient to be brought anywhere but suddenly I can get 4 assignments at once (and somehow doctors expect me to do them all simultaneously). Some nurses seem to believe those 40 minutes waiting for an assignment should count as my pause, because I was sitting. 2 are particularly vocal about it, painting me as a lazy person and they talk a lot with the other nurses.

When I have nothing to do I have a seat, read, learn, drink coffee, sometimes I write haikus or eat, telling the charge to inform me if she needs me to transport anyone. I also do my pauses, 30 min straight, something several nurses seem to resent: When I worked the ER as a nurse I never had a 30 minute pause, but several 3 to 7 minute breaks that summed together counted as your complete pause, the smokers would get longer pauses. I no longer want to do that shit and want my 30 minute pause, a stipulated in the contract.

If I cannot leave the workplace, if I cannot listen to music or sleep, if I have to stay in the ER waiting for my next assignment, I’m not on my break, am I?

I believe no matter what to many of my coworkers I’m gonna be the asshole: by establishing these boundaries (I want my daily 30 minute pause, I want to do ONLY my job) I’m the only one in the ER doing something the rest don’t do: establish boundaries. And that’s very noticeable. It won’t matter what’s in the contract: these 2 people have already decided I’m lazy, don’t waste time badmouthing me and I’ve decided they are happy to be exploited and I’m not gonna go the extra mile for any job.

Do I escalate?

I may have to work for a childish manager: he is older than me, which should mean he is more mature than me but he acts like a teenager, somebody I would never befriend out of the workplace. I don't know if he is simply this childish or if this is a facade he's been told to maintain.

I like to use downtime to learn, because my field is huge and there is so much stuff I barely understand, because learning opens doors to better jobs and because almost half of my coworkers bore me, use every excuse to smoke and if I read at least I don't have to talk to them.

I don't like wasting my time.

I worked for this manager, in the past: he had the guts to tell me I have to talk to him, as if I don't give him the attention he craves for I'm not good enough for him. I told him I am all to talk about the job, the science behind it (science I barely understand), about the devices we use, not about his life, not about what he did on his weekend, not about his problems with his wife.

He didn't say anything and to this day I don't know if I pissed him. I neither understand why doing your job is not enough. I'm there for a paycheck and to learn.

Working for this person is a terrible idea, right?

One of my biggest pet peeves is being forced to befriend people I don't feel attached to. It feels fake and walking on eggshells, like trying to guess what the needy person wants to hear, like he was a child. Why can't you say hi and get things done?

My problem is I’ve got a clear job description that management and some coworkers who feel entitled to boss me around oftentimes forget because it suits them to offload what they don’t want to do on me. What infuriates me is, it lasts way longer to argue with them than simply getting the job done, but if I don’t establish a boundary I feel like an idiot, because I feel they offloaded their shit on me, meaning they’ll keep doing that in the future, because I didn’t establish a boundary.

Establishing a boundary sometimes means they badmouth me, complain about me to my superior or yell at me, but I’m in a union.

I’m also not a patient person and arguing with a coworker about job duties when those are clearly written is not my strong suit. I just want to do my job and get paid.

When management offloads like this, I comply the first time, but then I start half assing it, working slower, not doing the job as good as I could.

This is not sustainable and feels like bullying. How do you deal with this?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36157102

my future job involves taking labor samples from point a to point b in a huge university campus involving several buildings and there is a ton of downtime: I often see my future coworkers playing on their phones, buying coffee several times a day, talking or smoking out of boredom.

There are moments when every laboratory wants you at once but even then they take it easy and a person cannot be at two places at the same time.

I don't know if it's really going to be this relaxed but it really looks so.

I was thinking loading my smartphone with books, find a quiet place and read, learn something.

Instead of smoking I could stretch and do some easy pilates and yoga.

there's always going several times to the toilet to have a seat and relax with nobody pestering you.

I don't reckon I could study something for college, write a book or poetry or learn a foreign language, as I couldn't concentrate.

what do you do in your downtime when you're lucky enough not to have a supervisor micromanaging you?

my future job involves taking labor samples from point a to point b in a huge university campus involving several buildings and there is a ton of downtime: I often see my future coworkers playing on their phones, buying coffee several times a day, talking or smoking out of boredom.

There are moments when every laboratory wants you at once but even then they take it easy and a person cannot be at two places at the same time.

I don't know if it's really going to be this relaxed but it really looks so.

I was thinking loading my smartphone with books, find a quiet place and read, learn something.

Instead of smoking I could stretch and do some easy pilates and yoga.

there's always going several times to the toilet to have a seat and relax with nobody pestering you.

I don't reckon I could study something for college, write a book or poetry or learn a foreign language, as I couldn't concentrate.

what do you do in your downtime when you're lucky enough not to have a supervisor micromanaging you?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33213155

I don't own much: My savings are around 50K$, money that now sits in the bank doing nothing.

I've been reading about what ETFs to invest into, but even those classified as climate friendly and social responsible include firms such as tesla, facebook, coca cola... not even close to being ethical.

Is there something akin to Michael Burry levels of ethical investment?