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Originally posted by James
I just want to see if I am following you correctly.
You are on the night shift , you don't do much, especiially on the weekends. So you effectively want weekends off by creating an on-call status where they can page you if there is a change in schedule or an influx of patients, and you can then call people from home to make arrangements for coverage or whatever?
Sounds ok . .. except . . . how are the going to compensate you? Are you hourly or salary? IT sounds like they are paying x-amount of hours of payroll that they really don't have to . . . which is ok, but if they are going to agree to your proposal won't they just eliminate your job?
I mean they aren't going to pay you to be at home. They could just expand the responsibilities of a salaried administrator to cover weekend calls.
Anyways, apologies in advance if I am misreading your situation.
Note: An aphorism: Never make it perfectly clear to the people that pay you that you are superflous.
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Thanks for responding James...nope, you are understanding correctly. Actually, they WON'T eliminate my job because hospital admin wants us to be available 24 hours. At one point, I was the only night shift employee and I worked M-Thur, but they actually hired someone else so that we could be here all the time, hence the rotating weekends.
I guess that IS my question, is it possible to make this proposal without appearing completely useless?
BTW...we are hourly employees. As for the pay, the way that the agencies do it, there is a set hourly pay that you get when you are on call, and there is an extra differential if for some reason you have to come into the office.