The Ethics of Managing Your Personal Time

Great article. Another ethical manage your time off could include, if it is not my Christmas holiday to work and I do not have small children in the house anymore, does not mean I should have to work that Christmas. I worked my holidays. I can not count how many parties, special occassions, even my own father's bereavement days. I had an administrator mandate me to work when my own father passed. What!? It was terrible. There are times, you can not control the world around you. But sometimes we can prepare the world around us.

AMEN!!!!

Very good article. Reminds me of the time when all the employees of a nursing home attended a Christmas party and left one nurse and one CNA to take care of the 172 residents. That one was obviously a blatant disregard for the poor people who made the employment there possible.

I agree 100% Ruby. I can't understand how people can so easily disregard the consequences of selfish behavior like your wedding attendees. These people could at least have the decency to be wracked with guilt-- but nooooooo . . I am no saint by any means - but the one and only time I called in sick without being sick was before nursing when I was a waitress at a pie and coffee shop. I let my friends talk me into it, and when I went in I'd found out one of the sweetest people there had cancelled plans for something very important to her so I could -- I don't remember what we did. It was that stupid. Never again.I may have taken it too far though because when I first starrted at Children's I caught the nastiest, fever-causing crud microbe from hell, and worked through it remembering the above -- oh yeah and the sheer terror about getting fired as a new nurse.

well one of the main concepts of ethics is Veracity (Truth).Lets all just tell the truth... Hey boss, I would like to go to the wedding....I am willing to use PTO. if you could find a temp or prn to cover me I would appreciate it.As a manager its more the lying that bothers me than anything else. What else are they lying about?ps, if ya come in spewing various microbes willy nilly, I would send ya home, please dont come to work actually sick.....If someone lies to me I ccant trust them. if I cant trust me I cant have them working for me........Lots of nurses looking for jobs.....just sayin....

Quote from mindlor Lots of nurses looking for jobs.....just sayin....

Flo,The vast majority of my team were honest, hard working people and I loved them and they loved me.When I did get the rare bad apple I never threatened them, I fired them, and fast.I do not believe in threatening people. Keeping bad apples on a team is a disaster for motivation and morale....

I definitely agree with the OP, it sucks when you count on people to show up for work and you're consistently being dumped (no pun intended) on by people that call out for the silliest "reasons." (Such as "I can't go to the bathroom, I'm stopped up so I can't come to work. Sorry! I guess ya'll will just have to get by without me!" Seriously. I felt like telling her, "Don't worry you can have a Dookie-lax once you get here"):smackingf I NEVER call out unless I'm contagious with something awful. My coworkers mean too much to me to leave them short-handed.

Quote from Flo.I hate when management uses this threat.

I can't count the number of times I've been asked "so and so is going to be 'sick' on wednesday, will you be able to cover?" Please people, switch shifts with people or plan ahead.

My own father died and I had to work. They were so great to me..they let me off to attend my only father's funeral. I do not know if this makes a difference but he was 52 years old and passed unexpectantly. Come on.. they couldn't find a replacement and I did not hear any of my coworkers trying to change shifts with me. Shame on me...lucky I did not know what I know now. Experience will change your life.

Quote from megan_EMTI can't count the number of times I've been asked "so and so is going to be 'sick' on wednesday, will you be able to cover?" Please people, switch shifts with people or plan ahead.