Picked up an extra shift because they offered incentive pay and we needed it. My daughter's spring recital was tonight. My husband sent me a video and I watched it in the med room on my break and she was looking at the audience the whole time like she was trying to find me.
The money covers her dance fees for like two months so I don't even know what the right answer was. Do any of you have a hard line on pickups or do you just take them when the money's good and deal with the guilt later?
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Post replyWhat gets me is that a unit can always find incentive money for short staffing but never enough to staff right in the first place. We shouldn't have to pick between recital and dance fees.
I'm going to gently push back on the guilt part. You didn't skip it for fun, you worked so she could keep dancing. Kids remember a lot more than one night, and she'll remember that her mom made it happen.
My hard line is anything with a date on it. Recitals, games, birthdays. I put them in the scheduling app the second the flyer comes home so I'm never tempted when the incentive text drops. Plenty of random Tuesdays pay the same bonus.
The med room video hit me. Did the exact same thing for my son's kindergarten graduation, watched it next to the Pyxis and had to pull it together before my 2000 meds.