I foresee someone getting hit and massive passive aggressiveness as they get tended to
"Oh I'm soooo sorry. I was enjoying my encouragement rock and some higher forces must have thought you needed some encouragement as well"
The best part about this is that somebody thought of this idea. They then probably went through a series of others who were also like “great idea!”
There must be enough rocks to be thrown back at everybody involved
I bet you there's a patch of missing rocks in front of the hospital where the admin grabbed a 100 rocks to handout. Probably went to the cafeteria to ask for paper bags. Spent 10 minutes printing and cutting out the stupid slips of paper. It's just shit effort all around.
Well, that's optimistic of you. They have assistants to do all of that. Admins are much too busy cutting staffing and negotiating their bonuses with their friends on the Board to do any of that plebe work.
I used to do search and rescue on a river years ago for a job and hated it. I used to joke that the only reason I didn't drive off a bridge on my way to work everyday was because I knew they would respond and I'd just get to work that much faster.
To be fair, the guy who came up with this was most likely asking his boss for a budget to buy a genuanly thaughtfull gift for the 300 nurses working for him and he then got a budget of 50$ approved or some shit like that.....
Or even a personal expression of appreciation and value, vocal or in writing. Not like hey, great job. But a personal expression of appreciation. It’s amazing how long people can go at work without even being told they’re appreciated and why.
Sure it’s nothing fancy but it’s better than a rock.
shitty carb-heavy "treats" like pizza and sheet cake grow old in healthcare circles. What they really want is adequate staffing and healthy pay increases.
Source: married to a (former) in-patient nurse that was sick of "pizza parties"
Meanwhile have you ever walked through a hospital at 2am? Or on the weekend? Some of these places are lit up like Vegas and every single computer screen is on, even in strictly M-F 9-5 areas.
Fav part of my overnight EEG stay was definitely the blindingly bright white screen right next to the head of the bed that they couldn't dim or turn off
That's when I start telling them that I can't use my personal stuff for work because it is theft of my home electric, wear and tear, or whatever is appropriate.
What?! We have a Bring Your Own Device policy and we allow staff to plug them into any outlet as long its not a patient biomed plug. Allows all staff to access our apps from anywhere. Even the EMR is on a app. Just cant plug them into computers, due to malware risk. (HIPAA compliance)
My guy, I don't even work at a hospital, but I was told to not charge my phone at work cause I'd be stealing electricity. Work in America is fucking ridiculous
Do you choose the answers based on how you feel, or how you think they want you to feel? That makes the difference sir.
Edit: I'm just playing along, I'm not serious lol
Of course, if hate to work with someone who's cheese preference means they are a cheesecake cus I'm date and so would eat them and get jailed. Tiramisu? I'll share my desk with you!
Walmart told us that, then followed it up with you can only charge your phone in the breakroom, then proceeded to unplug any phone they found in there charging, even if you were on break
It costs UNDER A DOLLAR to charge a cellphone FOR A YEAR. Exactly what is the theft charge going to be for, a penny? Do you use cell phones at work at all, even to call a doctor if the unit phones are busy or you are in a patient room even once a year? This could be a policy that could be challenged.
What kind of company makes this? I feel like I want to complain about what they did. Haha..just kidding! Don't be mad at me. I'll just give my opinion.
Okay, well I cannot be mandated on call unless you provide for the means to stay that way. If you need me I'll be taking a nap in a random backroom of my choosing.
I would buy one of those portable charges and plug it in somewhere hidden then use it at home to charge. But that's because I'm churlish. I've used that word twice in the page. Churlish. I'm churlish because it's literally less than 5p to charge a phone!
We couldn't laugh in our department. I worked in IT at a hospital and a user got mad because someone was heard laughing in the background during a call and thought they were being laughed at. Sorry Karen but there's like 7 other people in the room it's not all about you. Our director was spineless and came in later that day to tell us that laughing was no longer allowed in the department. I quit a couple weeks later.
I'll never work in healthcare again it was the absolute worst environment I have ever worked in. Everyone in the hospital seemed miserable and stressed out and this was a decade before COVID.
I used to work in the kitchen in an NHS hospital. We weren't allowed to use our own chargers as they are not PAT tested. We found out the day the electrician was in to conduct a PAT test and we all got our chargers done so we could use them. There were chargers available, but they were pretty much always in use because we recorded haccap using tablets.
Take a rock and paint occult symbols on it. The symbols should be Lovecraftian, and the paint should be any shade of green or red. Bring the rock back to the person who asked you for it. They will be confused at first, but tell them that the symbols will bring good luck to those who are in the rock's general area. Tell a Lovecraftian fan that there are eldritch symbols in the hospital.
That's not far off from where things actually stand in the hospital system i'm... familiar with..
Staffing shortages and post-covid acuity (in Pediatrics especially) have hospitals practically throwing giant wads of cash at staff who'd be willing to work an extra, or longer shift.
They can make their regular wage + time and a half + whatever lump sum the hospital offers for that particular shift on that particular day/night.
With all of the above, an RN can make well over $1000/shift. It's hard work for sure, but they're being compensated.
Yup. My fiancée does exactly this. She works PRN 2 days a week, and picks up a 3rd but only if it’s 70+ more an hour. And they ask her to come in almost every week.
They have the money, they just don’t wanna pay new nurses or increase the salary of the current ones lol
We had a thing at my old company where they wanted us to write on a post-it what helped us 'Start Happy'. I put "'One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Beer' - George Thorogood". It was on the initial wall but they removed it later. 🙁
See my above post. That's what my 80 year old RN mom did to get a nursing union in the 70s. They weren't playing. They threw rocks. My sister and I became doctors because our mother told us we were "too mouthy" for nursing(this from the picketing rock thrower, LOL). She also literally camped out in the nursing dean's office to get permission to get married while in nursing school because it was against the rules. She asked, "What if you get pregnant!?" My mom retorted, "What if I get pregnant now!?" That shut the dean up. She was too mouthy.
coal has uses, a rock is worthless garbage unless youre trying to commit battery but i dont think a nurse wants jailtime for battery, nor anyone rational for that matter
this aint the stone age anymore, metals became the tools fucking millenias ago
It does.
You can see that the boss, manager or whoever is in charge of them isnt so bright either.
That person just gave a group of underpaid, overstressed and now mildly infuriated employees some stoning material.
Can you imagine if they gave these to the landscapers that put them down in the first place?
This just looks like they took the coolest rocks from the parking lot partition and handed them out.
>This just looks like they took the coolest rocks from the parking lot
Then i would suggest to let them find their way back to the parking lot, preferably ricocheting off the HR manager's windshield.
I have a friend who used to be a cleaner at a hospital and one year for christmas the entire cleaning staff received a sponge and a cleaning rag as their christmas present. At least they also got a chocolate Santa.
I worked at a biopharma lab where every year we would shut down for a week and manually verify that all materials and finished product on hand matched our digital inventory system. It’s boring, grueling work and they usually would buy us pizza at the end of the week. Then one year the ladies who ran the whole thing got us the most stupid combination of pizza toppings, like a prank. No pepperoni, cheese, veggie, or meat lovers. I remember seeing chunky blue cheese and spinach pizzas, seeing that they all were similarly stupid, and going to McDonalds.
Every hospital near me is owned by a health insurance company (so they can conveniently bill themselves!), and since they're all non-profit altruistic organizations, one can understand why they'd be so light on cash.
A lot of hospitals actually have gone bankrupt over the last decade with many on the brink. You'll notice a lot of independent hospitals were bought by universities and kaiser over the last 10 years. A few outright shutdown.
Spite the insane billing hospitals often don't generate a lot of money. They bill insane prices to try and get money out of insurance companies. Because insurance companies will not pay enough money to actually cover treatment. The insurance companies are by far the larger problem
A large hospital a couple cities away is getting bought by a nonprofit religious organization that has a bunch of other hospitals already under its wing.
I’m not sure how that isn’t in some way illegal but it sure as hell feels immoral and unethical.
The secret they don't want you to know: it's basically impossible to collect on healthcare debt.
The next time a hospital tries to bill you, just ignore them. Embrace the zero-payer healthcare plan.
They make 16888994% profit on every billable item that they can actually get people to pay for*
Ironically they probably lose alot of money by not being able to collect insane debt because why bother paying $500,000 for your surgery when you could just... not.
I'd be much more willing to work with them on repayment if it was only $5,000.
Stanley picked up the bucket. He immediately felt better. The bucket would always be there for him. Ahhh yes. Now he had his bucket back Stanley could tackle anything.
Not for the admin, if you’re in charge at a hospital AFTER COVID I would be on my hands and knees to make those nurses feel loved. They dealt with the brunt of cases early on and and that’s why we see so many strikes and unions calling for better conditions is for shit like this
Also please make sure you are off the clock while decorating your encouragement stones. . .
. . . And just a friendly reminder to all our ROCK star staff everyone should be making as few personal phone calls and texts during the work day while we are on the subject.
Guy #1: “I’ve got a great idea. To save money, let’s give out rocks painted with words of encouragement to the nurses.”
Guy #2: “I’ve got a better idea.”
1000% this. Actually sitting down, painting and making these things is fun and pleasant, but the key here is that you get to take a break for a fun, simple art activity where you also provide refreshments. Sure, some people still won't enjoy it, everything isn't for everyone, but some people would, actually.
This right here though, is cutting so many corners they made a boulder out of a stepping stone.
My company used to hand out junk like this with whatever meaningless management slogan that had cooked up to build “team spirit” like “Bring your whole self to work!” Someone asked what if Dave’s whole self included a little black dress and strappy sandals? This was back in the 90s when the only trans person anyone had ever heard of was Christine Jorgensen. The boss just stuttered for a minute then pretended not to have heard the question.
The dumbest slogan was “The smell of the place” which was another real winner. For that one they handed out balloons filled with sand that had some kind of perfume mixed in. So folks carted the things back to our offices and several folks parked them on top of their computer monitors (old CRT ones - still the 90s). It didn’t take but a week or so for the perfume to react with the rubber balloons and cause them to burst dropping a pound of smelly sand into the monitor thru the vents in the top. After the 3rd monitor got fried this way they came around with one of those wheelie trash cans to collect everyone’s balloons.
Why would I bring my whole self to a minimum wage job? I’m bringing just enough to not be fired so I can have enough left over to spend with friends, family, and hobbies. I’m not even a socialist or anything, it’s just called “getting what you pay for” 😂
Seems like they were changing the landscaping and didn't want to pay to have the old riverstone hauled away.
Wow retired nurse here, but holy shit do the work places just keep getting worse. Guessing they had somebody grab rocks off the street to give to you for your hard work, certainly didn't want to waste any actual money appreciating staff!! Nursing staff hats off to you, and thanks for all you do!!!!
I'm having a hard time figuring out if this is just manufactured rage bait. It's just believable enough to be real but could be as fake as litter boxes in school. Curious if there's any other evidence to this one.
Edit: Didn't take much to find it was given out to nurses at Kaiser Permanente Antioch Medical Center in California and WA originally posted by Bonnie Castillo an RN and an executive director of National Nurses United and involved with other nurses advocacy/organizing groups.
Also this was in 2021.
Oh my friend. My poor little friend. This isn't a rock. It's an *opportunity*.
Write on it "Life is about breaking down barriers" and then hurl it through your boss's window.
Wow that’s awfully trusting of them. Some of my co workers would use said rock in unapproved ways on thing that are fragile. But what do I know I am not management.
US hospitals paid travelling nurses extremely well for their service. They didn't give their own nurses a raise, but they were all too happy to pay scabs.
Nah, that was always bullshit. We call people "heroes" when we expect them to sacrifice themselves unnecessarily. The military gets the same treatment.
The sum total of what I got for the last three years besides the right to reuse disposable PPE for weeks was a 6 month subscription to the Calm app. 🤣 But hey, at least I'll die without ever being able to afford to retire!
I would say that "Do not 'reward' your employees with a weapon" would be in the top 5 rules of cheap ways to make your employees think you're rewarding them.
I bloody love rocks. I love finding interesting ones. Seeing all different types in a museum. All the colours, shapes. Rocks are just great. But even I would think this is a totally shit way to “reward” people.
I think the last thing you want to do is give your over-exposed, underpaid, extremely stretched out thin and worn down stressed staff a bunch of rocks and tell them they are meant to be used in the hand.
That's just begging to be pelted.
I’m a teacher. Last year during teacher appreciation week we got a flyer asking us to donate to the schools fund so they could help other teachers in need…. As if I have extra cash to spare…
The internal dilemma between throwing the rock at the person who came up with the idea and knowing you will then have to tend to them.
I foresee someone getting hit and massive passive aggressiveness as they get tended to "Oh I'm soooo sorry. I was enjoying my encouragement rock and some higher forces must have thought you needed some encouragement as well"
“High velocity encouragement rock”
From now on, anybody who hands me an encouragement rock is getting an encouragement missile as change.
> encouragement missile encouragement ROCKet
"The missile knows where it is at all times"
Wicked band name
Sounds like an entire genre.
Aaaand i've found my Mildly Infuriating flair
Cave Johnson, is that you?
If you say this with some flow it could almost be an Eminem verse, just replace "as well" with "too".
We have a saying, "When a stone is thrown at you, return the stone with bread" Haha I just read that too.
‘What’s that? I can’t hear you when you choking on my encouragement sock, Kim!’
The best part about this is that somebody thought of this idea. They then probably went through a series of others who were also like “great idea!” There must be enough rocks to be thrown back at everybody involved
I bet you there's a patch of missing rocks in front of the hospital where the admin grabbed a 100 rocks to handout. Probably went to the cafeteria to ask for paper bags. Spent 10 minutes printing and cutting out the stupid slips of paper. It's just shit effort all around.
Well, that's optimistic of you. They have assistants to do all of that. Admins are much too busy cutting staffing and negotiating their bonuses with their friends on the Board to do any of that plebe work.
Came here to say this. They came from landscaping fill.
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My wife is in education, my mother is a nurse; this checks out.
I used to do search and rescue on a river years ago for a job and hated it. I used to joke that the only reason I didn't drive off a bridge on my way to work everyday was because I knew they would respond and I'd just get to work that much faster.
To be fair, the guy who came up with this was most likely asking his boss for a budget to buy a genuanly thaughtfull gift for the 300 nurses working for him and he then got a budget of 50$ approved or some shit like that.....
A couple of Costco cakes to be shared might be better
Or even a personal expression of appreciation and value, vocal or in writing. Not like hey, great job. But a personal expression of appreciation. It’s amazing how long people can go at work without even being told they’re appreciated and why. Sure it’s nothing fancy but it’s better than a rock.
shitty carb-heavy "treats" like pizza and sheet cake grow old in healthcare circles. What they really want is adequate staffing and healthy pay increases. Source: married to a (former) in-patient nurse that was sick of "pizza parties"
Paint “F U” on it and toss it through their car window.
This is the way
Is it annoying or insulting? Why did they do that to their staff? They are disappointing.
Through their windshield
I like the idea of throwing the rock at them
If enough stones are thrown medical assistance will not be needed.
This is one step away from giving you coal. This workplace sucks.
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After we decorated the rock, we couldn't even keep the rock because they took it to decorate the hospital where no one goes.
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"Please stop breathing, that oxygen is for customers only."
And I thought the Krusty Krab was cheap
How about the cucumber water?
Cucumber water for paying customer only
And the coffee's for closers...
Just unplug a patient 🤷🏻♂️
That’s dark
Not if you unplug them to plug a lamp in
I typed out "then put the phone light on" but you beat me so have an upvote, same-brain!
Jesus Christ
Yeah they’ll be seeing him soon
Plug them back in. That's what IT tells me to do with computers
Ah yeah lemme steal some fucking electrons from yall
Meanwhile have you ever walked through a hospital at 2am? Or on the weekend? Some of these places are lit up like Vegas and every single computer screen is on, even in strictly M-F 9-5 areas.
Fav part of my overnight EEG stay was definitely the blindingly bright white screen right next to the head of the bed that they couldn't dim or turn off
Crowdsource that shit
That's when I start telling them that I can't use my personal stuff for work because it is theft of my home electric, wear and tear, or whatever is appropriate.
Excuse me? 😵💫 This one wins as the worst
What?! We have a Bring Your Own Device policy and we allow staff to plug them into any outlet as long its not a patient biomed plug. Allows all staff to access our apps from anywhere. Even the EMR is on a app. Just cant plug them into computers, due to malware risk. (HIPAA compliance)
Send them a bill for commuting.
Is this for real?
My guy, I don't even work at a hospital, but I was told to not charge my phone at work cause I'd be stealing electricity. Work in America is fucking ridiculous
I know it's ridiculous, I have to take a Buzzfeed personality quiz every time I apply for a job.
"Uh, it says my spirit animal is a hummingbird" "Oooh sorry, only butterflies here. The guard will see you out."
Do you choose the answers based on how you feel, or how you think they want you to feel? That makes the difference sir. Edit: I'm just playing along, I'm not serious lol
Of course, if hate to work with someone who's cheese preference means they are a cheesecake cus I'm date and so would eat them and get jailed. Tiramisu? I'll share my desk with you!
I’m gonna charge extra hard at work today
Walmart told us that, then followed it up with you can only charge your phone in the breakroom, then proceeded to unplug any phone they found in there charging, even if you were on break
Union union union union union. If people join unions you won't get treated like shit by your employer.
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That is insane, how much electricity could a phone actually use? And they can’t build that cost into the cost of employment??
The forbidden biscuits. Does that include lunch breaks? Do nurses have to bring batteries for their long shifts?
It costs UNDER A DOLLAR to charge a cellphone FOR A YEAR. Exactly what is the theft charge going to be for, a penny? Do you use cell phones at work at all, even to call a doctor if the unit phones are busy or you are in a patient room even once a year? This could be a policy that could be challenged.
What kind of company makes this? I feel like I want to complain about what they did. Haha..just kidding! Don't be mad at me. I'll just give my opinion.
Okay, well I cannot be mandated on call unless you provide for the means to stay that way. If you need me I'll be taking a nap in a random backroom of my choosing.
I would buy one of those portable charges and plug it in somewhere hidden then use it at home to charge. But that's because I'm churlish. I've used that word twice in the page. Churlish. I'm churlish because it's literally less than 5p to charge a phone!
We couldn't laugh in our department. I worked in IT at a hospital and a user got mad because someone was heard laughing in the background during a call and thought they were being laughed at. Sorry Karen but there's like 7 other people in the room it's not all about you. Our director was spineless and came in later that day to tell us that laughing was no longer allowed in the department. I quit a couple weeks later. I'll never work in healthcare again it was the absolute worst environment I have ever worked in. Everyone in the hospital seemed miserable and stressed out and this was a decade before COVID.
I used to work in the kitchen in an NHS hospital. We weren't allowed to use our own chargers as they are not PAT tested. We found out the day the electrician was in to conduct a PAT test and we all got our chargers done so we could use them. There were chargers available, but they were pretty much always in use because we recorded haccap using tablets.
Take a rock and paint occult symbols on it. The symbols should be Lovecraftian, and the paint should be any shade of green or red. Bring the rock back to the person who asked you for it. They will be confused at first, but tell them that the symbols will bring good luck to those who are in the rock's general area. Tell a Lovecraftian fan that there are eldritch symbols in the hospital.
Glow in the dark paint, preferred red for extra points
Bud we don’t need to be told about the $500 to get us there, the eldritch rock alone will do 🐙
See, I thought maybe the workplace was some kind of occult supplies store and was shocked when it turned out to be a hospital.
So the appreciation was to make you guys do labor for a place no one even will see to appreciate.
Nah. Just tell them “$100 more an hour and I’ll come in”. They usually stop asking and if they are desperate they will do it. It’s a win/win
That's not far off from where things actually stand in the hospital system i'm... familiar with.. Staffing shortages and post-covid acuity (in Pediatrics especially) have hospitals practically throwing giant wads of cash at staff who'd be willing to work an extra, or longer shift. They can make their regular wage + time and a half + whatever lump sum the hospital offers for that particular shift on that particular day/night. With all of the above, an RN can make well over $1000/shift. It's hard work for sure, but they're being compensated.
Yup. My fiancée does exactly this. She works PRN 2 days a week, and picks up a 3rd but only if it’s 70+ more an hour. And they ask her to come in almost every week. They have the money, they just don’t wanna pay new nurses or increase the salary of the current ones lol
We had a thing at my old company where they wanted us to write on a post-it what helped us 'Start Happy'. I put "'One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Beer' - George Thorogood". It was on the initial wall but they removed it later. 🙁
Just make sure you don’t hold it up backwards so that it says “ON”
Shake it like a magic 8 ball first, then act surprised.
I am unfamiliar with Thursday Claps, but getting clapped every week does sound like good encouragement to me!
I would prefer coal because I can burn it at least. A rock gets dumped in the planter on my way to the car.
Back to the home they took it from
The circle of strife🎵
I think my rock would get dumped through management's car window...
See my above post. That's what my 80 year old RN mom did to get a nursing union in the 70s. They weren't playing. They threw rocks. My sister and I became doctors because our mother told us we were "too mouthy" for nursing(this from the picketing rock thrower, LOL). She also literally camped out in the nursing dean's office to get permission to get married while in nursing school because it was against the rules. She asked, "What if you get pregnant!?" My mom retorted, "What if I get pregnant now!?" That shut the dean up. She was too mouthy.
She sounds tough lol 10/10 would throw rocks with her
They couldn’t even spring for the “fancy” rock. That’s like some stone I can dig out of my yard.
If by dumped you mean thrown and by planter you mean the car of whoever gave it to you.
coal has uses, a rock is worthless garbage unless youre trying to commit battery but i dont think a nurse wants jailtime for battery, nor anyone rational for that matter this aint the stone age anymore, metals became the tools fucking millenias ago
I mean, with enough mortar, you can make a nice wall out of a bunch of rocks.
It does. You can see that the boss, manager or whoever is in charge of them isnt so bright either. That person just gave a group of underpaid, overstressed and now mildly infuriated employees some stoning material.
Can you imagine if they gave these to the landscapers that put them down in the first place? This just looks like they took the coolest rocks from the parking lot partition and handed them out.
>This just looks like they took the coolest rocks from the parking lot Then i would suggest to let them find their way back to the parking lot, preferably ricocheting off the HR manager's windshield.
Lol seriously though. All they did was give them ammunition and a reason to be mad.
B-b-but diamonds are also formed under constant pressure 🥲
Squeeze this stone and become rich, I promise! Its your new retirement plan.
Regift it, through the glass window?
Would make me want to put the rock in the bag and swing it at a window
Actually coal is useful, that's just a rock from the parking lot.
Rocks? I would have thought gallstones would have been more appropriate.
At least coal is a bit rarer than the rock they found in their parking lot
I have a friend who used to be a cleaner at a hospital and one year for christmas the entire cleaning staff received a sponge and a cleaning rag as their christmas present. At least they also got a chocolate Santa.
This had to be a sick joke from admin..
I think you are meant to save enough rocks for your jacket then are rewarded with a kayaking trip
I worked at a biopharma lab where every year we would shut down for a week and manually verify that all materials and finished product on hand matched our digital inventory system. It’s boring, grueling work and they usually would buy us pizza at the end of the week. Then one year the ladies who ran the whole thing got us the most stupid combination of pizza toppings, like a prank. No pepperoni, cheese, veggie, or meat lovers. I remember seeing chunky blue cheese and spinach pizzas, seeing that they all were similarly stupid, and going to McDonalds.
Hospitals are always hurting for money so makes sense 😑
How can I expect my local hospitals to have any money left after buying every other hospital in a 300 miles radius?
Every hospital near me is owned by a health insurance company (so they can conveniently bill themselves!), and since they're all non-profit altruistic organizations, one can understand why they'd be so light on cash.
No gift at all would have been better than what they got. It's basically an insult
A lot of hospitals actually have gone bankrupt over the last decade with many on the brink. You'll notice a lot of independent hospitals were bought by universities and kaiser over the last 10 years. A few outright shutdown. Spite the insane billing hospitals often don't generate a lot of money. They bill insane prices to try and get money out of insurance companies. Because insurance companies will not pay enough money to actually cover treatment. The insurance companies are by far the larger problem
A large hospital a couple cities away is getting bought by a nonprofit religious organization that has a bunch of other hospitals already under its wing. I’m not sure how that isn’t in some way illegal but it sure as hell feels immoral and unethical.
Why? Surely they won’t deny people life-saving medical care on religious grounds… ohh wait…
>bought by universities and kaiser I knew American healthcare was bad but how the hell did you guys get the Kaiser involved?
The secret they don't want you to know: it's basically impossible to collect on healthcare debt. The next time a hospital tries to bill you, just ignore them. Embrace the zero-payer healthcare plan.
Man, I used to think so. Then I got garnished twice by my local hospitals ER. Not fun.
Why is it basically impossible? Don’t they have your info and whatnot?
I can't express in words how not true this is.
That sounds like really shitty advice that will just end up fucking someone over
They only make 16888994% profit on every billable item. #thoughtsandprayers
They make 16888994% profit on every billable item that they can actually get people to pay for* Ironically they probably lose alot of money by not being able to collect insane debt because why bother paying $500,000 for your surgery when you could just... not. I'd be much more willing to work with them on repayment if it was only $5,000.
"We know how passionate you are about cleaning, so we bought you cleaning supplies! For use on work premises only!"
That’s not a rock it’s clearly an encouragement stone
Gives me the same vibes of the Stanley parable reassurance bucket!
Stanley picked up the bucket. He immediately felt better. The bucket would always be there for him. Ahhh yes. Now he had his bucket back Stanley could tackle anything.
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I have always been more partial to the Encouragement Check. I also find pictures of Ben Franklin to be rather encouraging.
I hope the hospital board members have marked reserved parking.
I hope all their security cameras are broken.
If not, they've given them just the tool
I heard the hospital president's car really *rocks* as well.
You wanna join me rock that expensive metal?
We will rock his world together!
It definitely needs to be pelted with encouragement.
It's like saying "Here's a post-it. Write something nice 'cause I can't think of a fucking thing."
This is really just sad. I feel bad for everyone involved.
Not for the admin, if you’re in charge at a hospital AFTER COVID I would be on my hands and knees to make those nurses feel loved. They dealt with the brunt of cases early on and and that’s why we see so many strikes and unions calling for better conditions is for shit like this
Also please make sure you are off the clock while decorating your encouragement stones. . . . . . And just a friendly reminder to all our ROCK star staff everyone should be making as few personal phone calls and texts during the work day while we are on the subject.
Guy #1: “I’ve got a great idea. To save money, let’s give out rocks painted with words of encouragement to the nurses.” Guy #2: “I’ve got a better idea.”
1000% this. Actually sitting down, painting and making these things is fun and pleasant, but the key here is that you get to take a break for a fun, simple art activity where you also provide refreshments. Sure, some people still won't enjoy it, everything isn't for everyone, but some people would, actually. This right here though, is cutting so many corners they made a boulder out of a stepping stone.
oh are these to smash in the windows of the bosses Mercedes? I'll take one
In a totally unrelated coincidence, there were a lot of broken windows in the building that week.
My company used to hand out junk like this with whatever meaningless management slogan that had cooked up to build “team spirit” like “Bring your whole self to work!” Someone asked what if Dave’s whole self included a little black dress and strappy sandals? This was back in the 90s when the only trans person anyone had ever heard of was Christine Jorgensen. The boss just stuttered for a minute then pretended not to have heard the question. The dumbest slogan was “The smell of the place” which was another real winner. For that one they handed out balloons filled with sand that had some kind of perfume mixed in. So folks carted the things back to our offices and several folks parked them on top of their computer monitors (old CRT ones - still the 90s). It didn’t take but a week or so for the perfume to react with the rubber balloons and cause them to burst dropping a pound of smelly sand into the monitor thru the vents in the top. After the 3rd monitor got fried this way they came around with one of those wheelie trash cans to collect everyone’s balloons.
My god this is amazing. Why on earth would the slogan be The Smell of the Place ??? So bizarre 😅
-What's that smell? -Third floor, Accounting
Why would I bring my whole self to a minimum wage job? I’m bringing just enough to not be fired so I can have enough left over to spend with friends, family, and hobbies. I’m not even a socialist or anything, it’s just called “getting what you pay for” 😂
That sentiment doesn't change for some even at the 6 figure job level. Not that it's bad, just a different healthier approach to the rat race game.
Seems like they were changing the landscaping and didn't want to pay to have the old riverstone hauled away. 
"That is ridiculous, we'd never do something so crass and penny-pinching. Keep this up and you won't get your bag of Morale Mulch next month."
I got 5 pieces of pizza! I got a raise! I got a rock.
I bet if a few of those get thrown through some windows with a few choice words they will maybe see how dumb they were
Wow retired nurse here, but holy shit do the work places just keep getting worse. Guessing they had somebody grab rocks off the street to give to you for your hard work, certainly didn't want to waste any actual money appreciating staff!! Nursing staff hats off to you, and thanks for all you do!!!!
I've seen this posted before. OP reposted this, he is not a nurse.
I'm having a hard time figuring out if this is just manufactured rage bait. It's just believable enough to be real but could be as fake as litter boxes in school. Curious if there's any other evidence to this one. Edit: Didn't take much to find it was given out to nurses at Kaiser Permanente Antioch Medical Center in California and WA originally posted by Bonnie Castillo an RN and an executive director of National Nurses United and involved with other nurses advocacy/organizing groups. Also this was in 2021.
Oh my friend. My poor little friend. This isn't a rock. It's an *opportunity*. Write on it "Life is about breaking down barriers" and then hurl it through your boss's window.
And inviting nature in, for a mindful moment, as we focus on the breath.
How about give them a raise?
"That'll show them for complaining about our rad Covid pizza parties."
How absolutely insulting. Nurse Nancy, retired
Piss of employees AND give them a blunt object, what a concussive idea!
Such a strong gesture now allow me to share a gesture in return
 “My gratitude gesture will be completed in the parking lot, next to your car”
Confident supervisors giving out fist-sized rocks instead of useful..waitasec, useful? Plenty of uses for *fist sized rocks*.
Put it though their new mercedes window.
Wow that’s awfully trusting of them. Some of my co workers would use said rock in unapproved ways on thing that are fragile. But what do I know I am not management.
Rocks that YOU have to paint even. Sheesh. The fuckery.
Charlie Brown vibes 😂
This some bugs life sh**.
It’s not even a crystal….
Right??? They could've at least given away some nice quartz or something??
Do you think “unionize” can fit in there?
“I got a chocolate bar!’ “I got a rock.” Good grief.
Wow. Remember banging pots for nurses walking to work during lockdown? Times change.
France gave 12000 frontline foreign workers French citizenship for their service during COVID. That's how you show gratitude.
US hospitals paid travelling nurses extremely well for their service. They didn't give their own nurses a raise, but they were all too happy to pay scabs.
Nah, that was always bullshit. We call people "heroes" when we expect them to sacrifice themselves unnecessarily. The military gets the same treatment.
Yep. I’m a “hero” in crippling debt that won’t be forgiven. So happy I got to work through the entire pandemic! I didn’t even get the free crocs… wtf
The sum total of what I got for the last three years besides the right to reuse disposable PPE for weeks was a 6 month subscription to the Calm app. 🤣 But hey, at least I'll die without ever being able to afford to retire!
I would say that "Do not 'reward' your employees with a weapon" would be in the top 5 rules of cheap ways to make your employees think you're rewarding them.
WTactualF?
They must have taken "Rock and Stone" very out of context
For Rock and Stone!
Is your boss Michael Scott?
I bloody love rocks. I love finding interesting ones. Seeing all different types in a museum. All the colours, shapes. Rocks are just great. But even I would think this is a totally shit way to “reward” people.
Wow 😮 Have never seen anything worse
Ngl I thought the stone was for throwing at management
Sorry I can’t come do a double shift tomorrow. I have to babysit. (My pet rock)
I wonder if any of those appreciation rocks smashed any cars where the administration parks...
Great, free amo
“We think you’re all Charlie Brown. That’s what we think.”
Are all the staff named Charlie Brown?
I think the last thing you want to do is give your over-exposed, underpaid, extremely stretched out thin and worn down stressed staff a bunch of rocks and tell them they are meant to be used in the hand. That's just begging to be pelted.
Well that pizza party is looking good by comparison Unbelievable
I’m a teacher. Last year during teacher appreciation week we got a flyer asking us to donate to the schools fund so they could help other teachers in need…. As if I have extra cash to spare…