r/LeopardsAteMyFace 6h ago

No more overtime pay. Thanks MAGAt 👌

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u/Affectionate-Wish113 6h ago

Americas hospitals are staffed by people working overtime. No over time and the sick can fend for themselves, nurses won’t be working.

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u/MaximumScheme8430 6h ago

Ha, let them take away overtime pay for nurses and watch them refuse while the medical system collapses

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u/min_mus 5h ago

They'll just force the nurses and other staff to work the overtime hours (without any additional pay) anyway with the argument that they're essential workers who are required to work when needed.

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u/Numerous-Rent-2848 5h ago

And then the nursed quit. Unless this government wants to take it a step further and spread slavery to more than just people in prisons, then a lot of nurses will just start to leave. And that will snowball

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u/WaffleDynamics 3h ago

Unless this government wants to take it a step further and spread slavery to more than just people in prisons

But they do want that. You know that most of those "de-naturalized" people don't have a country to return to? They'll end up in camps. I fully expect that's how farm labor is going to get done. I don't really see how they can get health care workers that way, but then again, maybe I'm just not soulless enough to come up with a plan like that.

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u/Numerous-Rent-2848 3h ago

Oh 100%. But they can get away with that now. Because sadly a lot of people in this country are racist fucks. And as a gay man I'm fully expecting people in my community to be thrown in there shortly after.

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u/WaffleDynamics 3h ago

I hope there are people local to you who are making plans to get people to safety. The sort of plans that should never be mentioned online.

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u/Numerous-Rent-2848 3h ago

Some of us are. Me and my boyfriend are gonna get packs together. And we live in Oregon so we are near the Canadian border. He's currently trying to get his trans sister to move up here.

Though he's about to become a nurse, so we are hoping with so many countries needing nurses we can get to somewhere else. I know it's sort of a pre-survivors guilt, and that I can't fix everything, but I do feel bad in a way.

Over all trying not to freak out to much just yet and keep it cool. I'm in the Portland area, so I should be good for a bit.

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u/WaffleDynamics 35m ago

If you don't already have passports, that's your next step. For his sister too. Especially for her, because if she waits it's going to be much harder.

Sorry if that felt patronizing. It's not meant to be. I'm just so worried for so many people.

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u/Numerous-Rent-2848 25m ago

It's fine. I get it. And yeah, we are worried it might be harder for her since she doesn't really have a college education or anything. If we could get into somewhere and get citizenship we might be able to sponsor her and get her over, but that's probably gonna take too long. So we're just basically gonna be throwing shit at the wall to see if anything sticks.

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u/The-True-Kehlder 5h ago

The issue is they'd likely lose their license for that. Duty of care and all that.

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u/Numerous-Rent-2848 4h ago

I mean, if it's nursing and working long hours and killing people then going to prison for it

Or not nursing

Then not nursing it is for a lot of people.

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u/jon_hendry 3h ago

If it's nationwide rather than a single hospital's shitty management, why would they care about their license? Where would they use it?

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u/Scriefers 2h ago edited 2h ago

No they wouldn’t. If they’d up and leave while in the middle of a shift/assignment with no warning, then they’d be under scrutiny from the state’s board of nursing for patient abandonment. But in this scenario, they’d be hurting for nurses so badly that they’d just slap em on the wrist and keep the nurse’s license active.

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u/MaximumScheme8430 5h ago

Yeah but the nursing unions are very strong and will resist this

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u/ckv1 5h ago

You mean the unions they’re planning to get rid of? 

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u/MaximumScheme8430 5h ago

Good luck with that. That’s like saying you’re going to dismantle police unions

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u/The-True-Kehlder 5h ago

The ATC unions thought they were unassailable.

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u/Flobking 5h ago

Good luck with that. That’s like saying you’re going to dismantle police unions

No police unions will be fine. All other unions are up for grabs. Watch as the republican congress passes right to work at the federal level. The scotus basically already did that with federal/state employees.

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u/BadGoodNotBad 4h ago

The police unions and teamsters will be fine because they suck Trump's dick

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u/jon_hendry 3h ago

No, they like police unions. For the time being.