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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel you OP.  I'm an RN at the VA, meaning we get a very generous amount of leave as feds compared to RNs in other hospitals.  We have a wiiiide age range among the RNs, from 25 yo to ~65 yo.

100% of us have children, some still at home and others grown now.  But at some point, 100% of us have had small children at home.

The amount of time that the current under-40 crowd is away from work is nothing short of astonishing. They take all their sick days and vacation days (ok) and then they KEEP taking days off, calling out at the last minute.  Three of these nurses don't have paid childcare - they just juggle with their spouse or have Mom do it. And when spouse or Mom gets the sniffles or has their own doctor appt?  Why naturally my coworkers call out sick.

We -- Gen X -- absolutely did not act like this. I have no idea what has led the current crop of Millennial parents to conclude that they only need to show their face at work about 75% of the time and shove their work onto the conscientious RNs who don't call out every few days.

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I’m a physician at an academic hospital, and I feel like there has been a huge shift in my employer’s attitude. I have to keep track of everything, and my department will not pay me for one hour that I didn’t work.  I teach one 10 week class to our residents and occasionally teach other departments residents and fellows.  This accounts for 1% of my salary.  I was asked to prove that this actually took 50 hours a year between teaching and prep time.  It doesnt.  It probably takes more like 30 hours a year.   So now they pay me nothing for it.

This all makes me a lot less likely to want to cover for a colleague and do double the work that day.  Or to hire emergency childcare if I have a sick child.  Why would I dedicate my life to a workplace that thinks of me as just a number?  
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