Fair enough. But to claim that he does not have a job, but then go on to describe what he does “for a living” is equivocating at best. Most folks consider what they do for a living to be their job. Furthermore, to claim that money is just falling out of the sky, and then to say that he gets money doing what only a few dozen people in the country do, is just stupid, as well as offensive to everyone who has to struggle just to get by.
If he has performed work for which he has been paid for the last 21 years he has not been unemployed.
Welcome to nursing–one of the most dog-eat of all dog eat dog professions. I hope that as an RN, you don’t expect for all shifts to get along like lil birds in their nest…seriously, nocs gets blamed for alot. Some of it is warranted, some not. Most of this shit is from people who are too stressed and too overwhelmed by the needs and obstacles to care they face, daily. Lack of staff, lack of supplies, lack of supervision–all take a toll on staff.
Alot of NHs don’t/can’t get rid of bad employees–because they are hard to replace. NHs are some of the most regulated and watched areas of health care–as they should be. Some NHs are great, most are fine and some are not. I couldn’t say which the OP works in. I do know that often an RN has up to 40 pts in a NH. Now, she has ancillary help (aides and sometimes LPNs) to help her, but 40 is mind boggling.
Best of luck to you. Try to rise above it. Inter-shift fighting is completely non-productive. Stay with it–we need you in nursing.
Hmmm, I see your point. Maybe it’s a matter of a distinguishing between wage earnings and contract remuneration. By definition, an employee earns wages and is thus employed, whereas a contractor earns a fee on completion of a contract. By always working contracts, one doesn’t earn wages, therefore one isn’t an employee, therefore not employed, therefore never “unemployed.”
I ask myself, if Bo always works short term contracts in his own name, is he ever ‘employed’ in the strict sense of the word?
Dunno, meez maybe clutching at straws here, meez is.
Except he claims to have been unemployed. Emphasis mine.
I think so. There are probably millions of contract workers in America. Are they unemployed?
It seems to me that if you are getting paid to do work then you are employed. You may not be an employee of a company, but to state that all the workers in the world who are not employees are not employed is to define the word so strictly as to be useless.
I love this attitude…as if the world were just filled to the brim with good paying jobs close to home. If it were that easy none of us would hate our jobs but I think even you can see that’s not the case.
eleanor, I know you’re a nurse (I think most of us do), and I know most of your abbreviations, but has it occurred to you that using profession-specific jargon on these boards is at best obscure for people who aren’t in the profession, and at worst really annoying? In the general population, it’s not “nocs” - it’s “nights.” And while I’m picking on you, “a lot” is two words.
Please forgive my hijack - this has been bugging me for a while, but it certainly isn’t worth pitting you over.
I can see where Bo is coming from, too, though. When I want to get Employment Insurance after being self-employed or working contracts, as far as my government is concermed, I haven’t been employed at all. Of course, when I go to pay my taxes to another branch of the government, they call me employed for every little thing I do. Then I go to the bank to try to get a mortgage, and SURPRISE! I’m unemployed again.
I think it would be a lot clearer if Bo referred to himself as working, rather than employed; as in, “I have been working as a self-employed contractor for the last 21 years.” I don’t get the impression he’s trying to mislead us, just that the terms being used are too ambiguous.
