@hawkeye10,
hawkeye10 wrote:
Quote:It's a great opportunity to acquire work experience....
Ya, it is better than sitting a home. What we dont know is to what degree this company considers her a " real" employee. And being a floater tends to suck, you tend to have big commute expenses which are not compensated, and you are always the outsider on the job.
We have a company here that contract feeds prisoners, and while everybody gets hired on being a floater being a floater really sucks. On any given day the work could be in one of four different counties, and you get paid nothing to get yourself there.
You're in the restaurant business and quite frankly you don't know what you're talking about as far as being a floater in health care.
Brandon stated, "She doesn't have to wheel in-patients around hospital corridors, do heavy lifting, deal with stoned and uncooperative patients in an ER, or work a graveyard shift. She only had to test cooperative out-patients from 8 AM to 5 pm." Not exactly feeding convicts.
So make up your mind, is she relegated to working part time (as are all the other recently hired students) or is she an overworked drone? You can't have it both ways hawkeye. When you float, you let them know what days you are available, and you are called in to work on those days.
When you are a floater in a hospital or clinic, they are glad to see you because otherwise they'd be handling too much of a load. You get to know each facility, and have the benefit of not getting caught up in the drama or politics of each place.
When we needed a floater to handle absences because of vacation or sickness, current employees were climbing all over each other for the chance to get such a sweet deal.
