Hey! I finished my nursing school about 12 years ago and worked on a ICU for about two years after nursing school as a RN.
Moved to a different country and now I am working at a facility for disabled people.
I work only nightshift and we have to be awake all night in case emergency but honestly, I never had an emergency. My clients sleep all night.
My base income is very high and in addition I get nightshift bonus, so I am getting a lot of money that isn’t taxed at the end of the month either because in this country shift differential (night, sundays, holidays) isn’t taxed.
I don’t know I am doing this since two years and if I’d lay down on a couch no one would ever know.
Should I keep going or say something? My Nightshift coworkers don’t do anything either but they just keep quiet. And if I am honest I think the dayshift doesn’t do a lot either. Our clients really dont need a lot of assist… it’s kind of weird getting paid for this job.
What makes you think your boss doesn’t know? Clearly if he expected you to do something, there would be results to show it. Even if it’s something simple like paperwork, he’d get on you about why it’s not being done. If it’s so important that no one’s noticed you not doing it for 2 years, it’s probably not actually very important.
The legal term in many countries is “Waiting to engage” vs “Engaged to wait”. The former is for people on call, where they can reasonably use their personal time and take some time to respond. You are in the latter group, probably up to the point where your lunch could be interrupted and the like. You don’t have the luxury of waiting 30 minutes to respond. You need to respond immediately. And they pay you for that privilege.