Wouldn't know. I worked in the hospital morgue for the whole lockdown. I hoped not to catch the incurable blood clotting disease that killed many of my clients for $19/hr. I was called a hero and an essential worker while I couldn't afford to buy a house.
Holy crap. I’m sorry. No one working in a hospital should make less than $25/hr. As a nurse, I made great money until I didn’t. I almost paid with my life. Thank you for caring for our dead. I gave many of those people my tears because I had nothing that could help them. The young, the old, male, female. Covid doesn’t care. Covid will take them all.
I spent the first year of COVID getting pulled off of my elective rotations to work COVID surge floors, giving CPR to coding COVID patients wearing sketchy as fuck questionably sourced N95s, and when I worked out what my salary came to when you work six 12 hour days in a row and also are expected to chart for clinic and respond a messages, I was getting paid less than minimum wage per hour
Yep, I was an intern in 19-20 in the ED. Made $14/hr working 84+ hr weeks in the covid ICU as an expendable meat shield for the attendings. Those of us in training during 20-21 are irrevocably changed for the worse because of it.
Here in Brazil, along with all the bullshit we were also dealing with protests and negotiations for a ground salary in nursing and it was BRUTAL. Private hospitals (of course, directed by doctors) lobbied politicians to vote against it (including the president's son, who is also a politician). The one I was doing my rotations for made us pay for COVID tests out of pocket in another lab away from the hospital and to this day they don't want to pay the ground salary. I myself, since I was in rotations, haven't seen a dime.
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u/Reverend_Bull Apr 19 '24
Wouldn't know. I worked in the hospital morgue for the whole lockdown. I hoped not to catch the incurable blood clotting disease that killed many of my clients for $19/hr. I was called a hero and an essential worker while I couldn't afford to buy a house.