Opti
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Post by Opti on Dec 27, 2021 8:42:33 GMT -5
The hospital I volunteer at is so desperate for non medical employees, like dietary and housekeeping, that they’ve emailed the volunteers to work. I emailed back how old I was and they didn’t care, they said. While dietary staff has many on the younger side, I know at least one person in her 60s who works in dietary FT. And is not a cook. Housekeeping, the facility had a bunch of older housekeepers. How many, IDK. But there are housekeepers in their 60s and 70s, and in the time of Covid, they really need to practice infection control. Unless you are 80 something, and I think you are not, you could do it if you wanted to.
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Post by Opti on Dec 27, 2021 8:45:08 GMT -5
Niece said yesterday at the hospital where she works they are so short handed that every day a text goes around asking employees to volunteer to work on the floor for higher pay. She said because she is in surgery, she can't do it, but the department secretary took them up on it. She sat with a patient all day who needed one to one care. The secretary has been doing this because of the higher pay. She has even sat with Covid patients who keep trying to pull out tubes, etc. while intubated. Wow, that's dedication to sit with Covid patients. I hope she is careful. Luckily some one on ones are easy to look after.
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Post by Opti on Dec 27, 2021 15:25:11 GMT -5
Not about Boomers, but I don't want to start a new thread. Per the article, the issues are low pay and access to facilities. www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-used-to-be-a-great-job-us-truckers-driven-down-by-long-hours-and-low-pay/ar-AASaJo0?ocid=msedgntp“If you haven’t found a place to park by 2 or 3pm in a truck stop, you’re looking for any place to park, yet we’re fined and towed for just trying to be safe,” Clemons said. “When you have a 300-mile run and six to seven hours to be there, you don’t have time to waste, so either you’re late or you’re on time and refused use of the facilities. As nasty as it may sound, most of us experienced drivers carry garbage bags and a five-gallon bucket, or a potty chair with plastic grocery bags.”
“The industry has recycled this narrative about every three months for over 20 years. There is no truck driver shortage,” said Desiree Wood, the president of Real Women in Trucking. “It is indeed a pay shortage and work conditions issue.”
All these factors may explain why annual turnover at big trucking employers averaged 94% between 1995 and 2017. And that’s before Covid upended the supply chain and increased demand for drivers, and the pressures they face.
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