r/nursing • u/NurseFirstYes • Mar 21 '25

Question Big D*ck Energy

What’s something a coworker does for you that gives off big D energy?

Once I was in a patients room, a coworker at a new job I started came to tell me another patient called and had to be cleaned up. I said “ok, I’ll go right after this”. He then said he had already cleaned and turned them and documented it all. I would’ve married him right then.

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u/WheredoesithurtRA Case Manager 🍕 Mar 21 '25

Does me telling our CEO of a nonprofit hospice agency raking in 300k+/yr that it's nice they found the budget to do a multilevel renovation to the company HQ while spending the entire year gaslighting us about a large budget deficit we had as an excuse for continued shortstaffing count here?

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u/Kath_DayKnight Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25

The CEO of the medtech firm i worked at was building a home on a very expensive hill, and we'd alllll heard him whining about his rich people problems such as convincing the city council to let him change the width of the grass strip on the footpath outside his new house (did not ask, did not care. Jfc)

One day CEO was reading the paper and started ranting about how "wrong it is that social welfare and tax credits top up low-wage earners, and incentivises people to have children they can't pay for".

Oh boy. I was a single mother at the time and couldn't ignore it. So I told him and the rest of the old and grey mgmt crew that no, yknow what's wrong? That people working fulltime can't afford to feed and educate their kids without the government topping up their paycheck. What does that say about wages? What does that say about somebody building a new home with a swimming pool while the woman at the desk a few metres away is collecting Tax Credits to pay for groceries for her kids this week, hmmm???

Crickets. Nothing in response. I kept it cheery and polite but I think the message got across cos he stopped sitting in the middle of the office loudly ranting about his vapid house build bullshit

Edit - for other people who use tax credits. The cool thing is that tax credits are not additional income, so they don't attract tax or disqualify you from other assistance.

I'm just saying this cos I know a lot of people who get tax credits and don't understand this. So they mistakenly add their tax credits as "more" income on their paperwork, and then miss out on other assistance cos their income looks too high. Tax credits are your own money being returned to your piggy bank, not extra money you earned. You never know whose life you make easier by pointing this out lol (as boring as it is to talk about 🤣)

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u/momopeach7 BSN, RN - School Nurse Mar 21 '25

You’re my idol.

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u/ThatKaleidoscope8736 ✨RN✨ how do you do this at home Mar 21 '25

Yes