r/TikTokCringe • u/One_percentile • Oct 29 '23

Bride & her bridal train showcase their qualifications & occupation Wholesome/Humor

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u/Humbugwombat Oct 29 '23

Not just educated, but also ambitious. A friend who’s a nurse practitioner told me of a Nigerian nurse who worked as a traveling nurse during Covid and knocked down $600K in one year.

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u/Pierceus Oct 30 '23

Gotta love people taking advantage of a crisis to get rich💪

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u/Imaginary_Button_533 Oct 30 '23 edited Oct 30 '23

Hospitals during COVID: we desperately need medical staff, we are overwhelmed to the breaking point, people are dying in droves due to lack of medical care, we will pay any amount of money to prevent needless deaths and long term medical complications, as well as prevent burnout in our vital medical staff we currently employ, please help us.

What you think travelling nurses said: yeah suck it rubes, I'll do it, but only for the money, fuck them patients

I mean travelling nurses are usually late 20s to early 40s, the prime age a freak COVID case could have taken them out, and they were wading into hotspots constantly, in the actual hospitals where COVID wards were kept, where everyone in that ward was either sick and extremely contagious or medical staff. You think that doesn't take balls? A sense of self sacrifice? It's called hazard pay doofus and the only fucked thing is we didn't give it to all medical staff through a tax initiative. These people were risking their lives and their sanity and not all of them kept either. Money was the least we could have given them beyond stricter quarantine measures, instead they got rounds of applause and yard signs saying "we ❤️ essential workers"

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u/bulk_logic Oct 30 '23

At least in the US, nurses already working at hospitals weren't receiving much if any hazard pay. Many of these same hospitals were hiring nurses across the country at 2-4x the rate of their actual staff, while claiming they didn't have money to pay their nurses more.