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Working every Sunday for the rest of my career - Annie Oakley

Posted: Apr 18, 2012

We are required to work a full-time schedule that includes either Saturday or Sunday, every weekend, forever. The only time we can take a full weekend is if we take a PTO day. But the problem is that we don't get paid holidays anymore (unless we work), so we are almost forced to take many of those as PTO days. Our sick days come out of our PTO days. I guess what I am saying is that the thought of having hardly any full weekends "forever" is very disheartening. The company I used to be with, who was bought out, let us work 1/2 day Sat and 1/2 day Sunday, every other weekend. This was so much better and we could spend some weekends with our familys. I am thankful I have a job in this economy, but working every Sunday is very depressing to me.

try working every day with none off ever!!! - slave to MT

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At least you get a day off. The only way I ever get a day off is if I am so sick that I literally can not get out of bed and then when I am better, all the work I would have gotten when I was out is given to me in one day whether it is one day or a full week!!

I have worked every other weekened or either Tues - Saturday for the past 15yrs.

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Always worked in the healthcare field, first as a nurse requiring every other weekend and then as a transcriptionist in a hospital requiring either Tues-Sat or Sun-Thurs.

It is the norm.

Same here...going on 11 years now, almost all the holidays too. - Hayseed

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It's just the nature of the beast, I'm afraid. I could leave and go back to a doctor's office as a medical secretary, but I still vividly remember when I was cowering in a staff bathroom after a nutter came barging in looking for needles to shoot up with--clean or used, and then all the angry patient's who took out their billing/insurance frustrations out on me, some even threatening bodily harm...

So, I'll keep on keeping on because frankly working with actual humans scares the crap out of me these days.
:-D

Sundays - Me again

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I personally don't think Sun-Thurs is a bad schedule. I've done it for years and like having a weekday for errands and doctor appointments. I can't see how a half day Saturday and a half day Sunday would be better, that does tie up your entire weekend, impossible to go anywhere. My first 3 days of sick leave come out of my PTO account, I don't work for an MTSO. Give your schedule a try before you decide that you are going to "hate" it, you might like it better than you think.

Me too - OntoNewThings

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I've worked Sunday through Thursday most of my 25 years; however, I used to have understanding bosses who allowed the occasional flex hours for a holiday (i.e., on Thanksgiving as long as I got my 8 hours in it was fine) and if my child was sick when I was a single mom (this was when I was inhouse) I wasn't threatened. If you read my thread at MModal while I have been threatened, it was at the smaller MTSO and she would punish you if you took day off by sending 20-50% of your workload for 1-2 weeks (not just me several of us finally met and were floored as all of us thought it was just US personally!).

At any rate if you work acute care it is 24/7/365 PERIOD. I knew that going in, just like nurses and other hospital staff there are no "weekends." If you want to do weekends off just try finding clinic only transcription (which I did for about 5 years and was bored out of my mind LOL).

Me too. Always acute care, always 24/7/365. I chose - Sundays to free someone else up for church. NM

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