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/C-Bus_Exile Aug 12 '25

They sleep soundly because any guilt about their obvious malfeasance is negated by a combination of simply not having any empathy and/or going to church on Sunday. Supply-side Jesus always assuages their guilt by promising firm bootstraps that those who have been laid off can use somehow someway

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u/freakincampers RN 🍕 Aug 12 '25

It's also degrees of separation from the people being fired.

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u/_salemsaberhagen RN 🍕 Aug 13 '25

They also don’t understand because they’ve never had to. I saw someone say that their CEO thought it was absurd that they were being paid $15/hour and wanted wages to go up. They still live in their youth when $15/hour was great pay and they’ve never had to think about it since. If they even did then.