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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doc_Klueless" data-source="post: 2197923" data-attributes="member: 261">Ok. I'm a registered nurse. I work nights. 7pm to 7am usually. So I work last night and I see that, as usual, they didn't schedule enough people to cover the entire night shift the next night (that'd be tonight). I'm scheduled to come in and work 1130pm to 0730am. I know that they're gonna call me to see if I'd be willing to come in at 7pm to cover the 4 hours that they "forgot" to schedule someone for. Oh, sure. It'd be 4 hours of overtime, but I don't need the money that badly. I've planned to spend some quality family time with my daughter and my ex-wife (whom I'm now on pretty friendly terms with). As such, I tell my ex that I'm not willing to go in to work early and if they call to tell them so. Around 1030am the phone rings and it's work asking to see if I'd come in. My ex informs them that I've told her that I don't want the overtime, that I'm asleep, but she'll let me know they've call.Around 3pm they call again and ask: "Is he up yet?"Now this is the part where I rant. On my schedule, 3pm is akin to most peoples 3am. If I would have called one of them at 3am and asked, "Are you up yet?" they'd think I'd lost my mind. When I stressed this later in the afternoon (about 5pm) when they called again that I wasn't happy that they called me twice after they were told that I didn't want the over time with one time being in the middle of prime sleep time, there was a pause on the phone and then a weak "but it was the middle of the day."Not for ME it wasn't, you silly ignorant git! It was the middle of the NIGHT for me!! I can't help it that the sun was up. I'm sleeping. I'd only been home for 7.5 hours come 3pm. Chances are if I got home, took a crap, ate something, showered to get all the nursing germs off of me, I'd have only been in bed a MAXIMUM of 6.5 hours.Plus, I've got a kid. They KNOW I have to take her to school and pick her up. I sleep while she's at school. (I've gabbed with just about everyone about this). There's no way I could have gotten to sleep before 845am. That's not even counting the fact that they called at 1030am. Which means that I would have just been in bed for a couple of hours.Day workers! Aaaaaaaagh!!!!That's it. I'm calling that charge nurse tonight around 2am to see if she's up yet and to confirm that she's coming to work in the morning. When she gets hostile, I'll be all innocent. "But I'm up. Why aren't you?"That is all.</blockquote>

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