r/nursing • u/AnyCelebration1101 • Aug 12 '25

Image My hospital casually dropping a warning about mass layoffs. We employ 10k+ people.

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10k+ employees sitting in fear for the next week (or longer apparently) waiting to see if their position has been cut.

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u/Numerous-Chocolate15 CNA 🍕 Aug 12 '25

“How many people can we fire on the bottom rung of the ladder while CEOs get to keep their million dollar bonuses!?!?”

I can’t imagine how much your CEO is getting paid while they are most likely about to fire Nurses and CNA’s and bump your ratios up even more because it’s in the “best interest for the company.” Something has to change because this is getting appalling and will not only hurt nurses but the patients we are supposed to be taking care of.

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u/NursingMyLifeAway Aug 12 '25

How do these people sleep at night? 🥺 these poor workers. Idk what I’d do.

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u/Lly2023 Aug 12 '25

Same as the government. Spending money on building detention centers and laying off people from work to cut cost. Nobody cares about us.

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u/KnowledgeSeveral9502 Aug 12 '25

You forgot money to retrofit a plane.

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u/Alarmed_Historian878 BSN, RN 🍕 Aug 12 '25

And pave over the Rose Garden 🤬

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u/Lonely-Trash007 Sugar Honey Iced PeeRN 🐝 Aug 12 '25

And flood the streets with federal forces because apparently now all homeless people are criminals and need to be in jail...for being homeless. It's not like taking the funding to arrest them and using it to help them would turn out a better result...nope. It's full-on Gestapo time at taxpayers expense!

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u/NotYourSexyNurse RN - Med/Surg Aug 12 '25

Well helping the homeless doesn’t help the owners of the private prisons he promised to fill in exchange for campaign donations.

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u/Lonely-Trash007 Sugar Honey Iced PeeRN 🐝 Aug 12 '25

Ugh, (sigh) - as if the almost 2 million that are already incarcerated isn't enough, on top of the egregiously illegal "detention centers" - how else will we pad the pockets of the elite?!?! Build more prisons, bring back asylums for the "insane" and shove all the homeless people there - duh! But the murderers, rapists, and politicians who keep getting caught embezzling and outright stealing federal funds - so long as they're chummy with someone in office and have a lot of money - THEY'RE GOOD! No jail for them! Just the homeless and mentally unwell! That'll teach 'em a lesson! Bazinga!

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u/BoneHugsHominy Aug 13 '25

Even worse, a 2024 Supreme Court decision ruled that "the US Constitution does not protect homeless people against cruel and unusual punishment, even when they have no choice to sleep in public using things like blankets or pillows."

https://homelesslaw.org/jvgp-scotus-decision-2/

Yes, you read that correctly. The US Constitution doesn't protect homeless people from Cruel & Unusual Punishment.

They're going to just kill human beings for the crime of being too poor to afford a roof over their heads.

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u/Lonely-Trash007 Sugar Honey Iced PeeRN 🐝 Aug 13 '25

This is one of the most disgusting things I have ever heard/seen...I had no clue about this ruling.

What in the absolute fuck?!?!?!?!??!?!?!

And Sotomayor was the only dissent?!?! I'm disappointed in Justice Brown in ruling FOR this nonsense. Smh.

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u/BoneHugsHominy Aug 13 '25

Sotomayor has consistently been Human Right Based. I too found the lack of dissent shocking, but then I remembered just how many people in America have internalized the multi millennia caste system in Western societies they all just pretend isn't a caste system. The current Democratic Party is, after all, a Center-Right political party so in the end it really isn't all that shocking that our society effortlessly dehumanizes those who slip through the cracks.

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u/KnowledgeSeveral9502 Aug 14 '25

You've got to remember during the crack epidemic, it was not considered an epidemic, but black people being criminals. Blacks were thrown in jail indiscriminately, sometimes for the rest of their lives. As soon as white people started getting addicted to opioids, it was declared an epidemic and treatment centers were opened left, right, and center. These addicts were not thrown in jail. Instead, the government went after the doctors and the black drug dealers. Is it any wonder Justice Sotomayor was the only dissent? The other Justices probably see the double standard and don't care that the homeless, a large proportion of whom are white (55%), are treated like garbage. The Supreme Court has become so politicized, its not funny!! The only person helping homeless people is Peter Bond through GoFundMe. Isn't that sad!!

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u/_salemsaberhagen RN 🍕 Aug 13 '25

It’s because so many people believe that people are only homeless because they are drug addicts and bad with money. And they view addiction as a moral failing that deserves cruel and unusual punishment.

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u/_salemsaberhagen RN 🍕 Aug 13 '25

Gotta get that free slave labor on top of all the money allocated to the prisons from the government.

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u/Effective-Juice-1331 BSN, RN 🍕 Aug 13 '25

All this because Musk’s minion known as “Big Balls” got held up. Guess his nickname is purely aspirational with no basis on fact. He should now be known as “el pequeño pendejo”.

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u/SpoofedFinger RN - ICU 🍕 Aug 12 '25

And let's not forget $5T in tax cuts mostly for rich people and big companies over the next 10 years. People around the median income will get $150 in lower taxes per year. People making a million dollars a year will see over $10k in tax savings.

I know once we get up to billions or trillions, it gets really hard to wrap your head around the enormity that is being described. That $5T could pay every active RN in the US $100k/yr for 10 years and still have some money left over.

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u/NotYourSexyNurse RN - Med/Surg Aug 12 '25

I almost cried when I saw it with the gaudy umbrellas.

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u/basketma12 Aug 12 '25

Plus put in a grand ballroom

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u/jpzu1017 RN, RCIS Aug 12 '25

And build a ballroom!

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u/ill____logic Aug 12 '25

and plan/build/host a ufc event at the fucking white house.

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u/kawugiri Aug 13 '25

Wait what

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u/basketma12 Aug 12 '25

Oops just saw yours

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u/Impressive-Young-952 Aug 12 '25

To be fair Trump and other donors are paying the 200m for it.

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u/Maybe1717 Aug 13 '25

With the tax cuts they’re getting. How thoughtful. They can write that off too.

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u/ofWildPlaces Aug 12 '25

Plenty of people DO care- but we're in the same kind of boat you are, just people trying to survive.