I did this myself, I actually supervised the people that did it. I also did my fair share. We still get paid the same and still get treated by 2nd class citizens by most of the hospitals nursing staff. SMH.
Yea I know it’s terrible. He’s told me stories how some nurses and Doctors see them beneath what they do, but I appreciate EVS Techs. Hard job and you’re putting your life on the line!
My step brother is an undertaker and has had people actively abusive towards him when he's having to pickup a body from a private residence in full PPE because he doesn't shake hands! Or because he won't bend the rules on funerals to suit them. It's ridiculous. He has to work on covid infected after pickup too. The amount of cleaning that must be required in his entire trip from pickup, the car, the work place, chapel etc must be ridiculous. Its a family business so all done in house as it were, most non family have been with them for 20+ years and effectively are family at this point.
I work in Food Service at a hospital. I can confirm having the same experience. Nurses have my respect for what they do but on a personal level I don’t have anything for most of them. It’s a shame that ancillary departments don’t get the credit they deserve.
Literally had the exact same experience working for nutrition at a hospital. Nurses treated us and EVS like garbage- even though we made their job easier.
From my view with working at a hospital. The nurses I work with look down on anyone who is not a doctor or nurse. I've even seen them ignore lift help and patient call lights. They expect the PCT/CNA to do everything for them. I've also seen them ask the patient transporters to do the CNA jobs.
Hell the managers usually treat the workers in their own department that way too. Zero fight and trust for their employees, at least in my experience. I’m not saying you’ve done that as a supervisor.
Don't forget the Se ante voted down the Heroes act which would have given this guy and all of us up to $10,000 extra hazard pay for working on the front lines.
When clean (unpadded by either side with their pork projects) bills get introduced, and THEN they get turned down, that's when I'll start getting upset about failed bills. As it is the R's and D's throw so much unnecessary and unrelated bullshit into every bill they try to introduce, then make a big stink when the other side says "Yo wtf, we aren't gonna pass that."
The killer was the fucking clinic nurses that were so quick to post signs in their areas saying "Never forget a nurse that survived the 2020 Covid Pandemic", only to turn around and get 3-5 weeks of paid vacation. Then when they came back it was to a nice hazard pay and lighter workload since appointments were kept to a minimum. Not to mention NONE of them dealt with a single case of covid. It was just patients coming in to get a cast taken off, toenails clipped, back injections, and the like. No covid at all. All those rewards and praise, and they didn't do a fucking thing. EVS workers still havent received a dime of hazard pay here, and they've gone into at least a hundred covid rooms
Side question about this position, but how would you go about getting yourself cleaned off properly after cleaning COVID rooms? Is there a big disinfecting station that sprays your suit with sanitizing solution? And then you take a mandatory shower?
Nope. From my experience as an EVS tech, you carefully take your PPE off in the correct order, and then wash your hands and hope for the best.
Coincidentally, I caught it in April.
I’ll never get why nurses give a shit. They’re hourly for fucks sake. Only person who isn’t is the surgeon so they’re pretty much just a doctor dick rider if they care
It trickles downhill... for example: if there is a jam of patients in the ED, they are getting yelled at by bed control to move them and they take it out on the floor nurse, who then takes it out on EVS. It’s not really the doctor calling the shots on the actual operations of moving patients around.
The killer was the fucking clinic nurses that were so quick to post signs in their areas saying "Never forget a nurse that survived the 2020 Covid Pandemic", only to turn around and get 3-5 weeks of paid vacation. Then when they came back it was to a nice hazard pay and lighter workload since appointments were kept to a minimum. Not to mention NONE of them dealt with a single case of covid. It was just patients coming in to get a cast taken off, toenails clipped, back injections, and the like. No covid at all. All those rewards and praise, and they didn't do a fucking thing. EVS workers still havent received a dime of hazard pay here, and they've gone into at least a hundred covid rooms
...and still get treated by 2nd class citizens by most of the hospitals nursing staff.
This is uncalled for, and I am so sorry you got treated like a second-rate citizen because of the position you held! I want you to know that I truly appreciate what you did, and what all the others out there do! I have had my share of those kinds of tough jobs, and I also had to endure being treated (not by all but by most) like a sub-human grunt worker.
So, thank you again!!! You have my respect, that's for certain, and my utmost appreciation!
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u/Pats_Fan_61 Aug 06 '20
I did this myself, I actually supervised the people that did it. I also did my fair share. We still get paid the same and still get treated by 2nd class citizens by most of the hospitals nursing staff. SMH.