Hospital Opens Food Bank For Their Low Wage Employees

Nice idea. We are a family of four living in a motel room. The cost of living in our area is insane. Jobs are scarce. We were paycheck to paycheck until my husband lost our job. Now we don't have the money to move or even put down on an apartment. We are NOT using public assistance of any sort. We are surviving on Ramen noodles at times. This is as good as it gets in this area for now. AND- this is better than we were doing a few months ago when we were sleeping in the truck with our kids ~.^


You, like myself, are the type of people that do fall in the cracks. We work hard, always have. Don't expect expensive crap or extras. Just want to do a good job and live with the skills/lack of that we were dealt. I feel for the folks like us. I have been on welfare, public housing, and 2 babies to feed doing 2nd shift at a restaurant, third shift at a hotel, and Saturdays cutting grass with a push mower. People like us do what we need to do...and many times it does hurt. What pisses me off are the ones who vaguely put statements like "the evil ceo" or the heartless 1%" I have been dirt poor all my life until I was noticed for my over and above hard work and now I can breath a little. However, I do not envy the rich or those who choose to spend their companies' money the way that they see fit. I do not think every kid should get a trophy for "participation". My prayers go out to you and those of us who go above and beyond every day in their job KNOWING that they won't ever be paid top salary.

Just think

Bare minimum


But, when the global economic crash comes, it is the poor who will do well

The poor are use to having to be creative in their living.


The pampered rich; will not fare as well

Who died during the great depression of 1929?? a lot of bankers ; wealthy


this is a bit off topic but on my mind a lot lately


You make a strong point. I would like to add also that the "pampered poor" will also go....the ones who could get by with what they had, thru determination and smart spending will make it

You make a strong point. I would like to add also that the "pampered poor" will also go....the ones who could get by with what they had, thru determination and smart spending will make it

I agree

you have a point

the pampered poor who live welfare check to welfare check

Ain't humanism, atheism and evolutionism grand?
Why are you crying? This is what you asked for people, this is what your "educators" did for you because you had a personal problem with your Creator.

"We don't need no stinkin' god"

Yeah I can tell, going real grand.

Congratulations humanists.

The rest of you also need this lesson to see how good God has been to you how he has blessed you, and when you as a nation turned on him we see what happened.

Mammonisn, humanism and all that stinking garbage.

Suggestions please.

I'm wondering if the unions are putting such a squeeze on the hospital that they can't help it. That' what happened to Hostess right; the unions waanted more money and hostess said "we can't afford it"
unions forced hostess out of business. Loks like this hospital is trying to stay afloat in an obamanation.

You hit the nail on the head

That's like the electric company asking me to donate to help low income people.
Or walmart asking me to donate my change for something.

Assholes.

are you retarded?????? this is a result of unfetted capitalism 101

LOL, no...I know doctors, and dentists, and no Nurse has the training, skill, or knowledge they have...or they would be doctors!

Yeah true, but youd be surprised at how many do their job.

Well, you got me figured out...guess I can retire now...who should I appoint to take my place?

I really hope these employees don't fall for this. This is an attempt by the management to make these people feel helpless. If the management cared at all for these employees they would give them a raise. Some of the most evil people I've met have been in a hospital environment.

I love my family and my life, what I speak is the truth...

It's just an extension of "tip me because i am working disease" that has infected this nation. You see tip jars everywhere, tip you for what!? Let your employer pay you, not my business. Stupid.

Nope, the nurses to the dirty work and that's what they are paid to do...My sister is an RN, I have many friends and clients that are doctors and dentists, they hire nurses and hygienists, to do a particular job, it's reasonable and it's fair...

Exactly.

Yes, it is true the PA's etc. follow the orders, but the MD is the one the lawyers go after. Plus if you didn't didn't come from money, and did it all on loans, you were looking at about 200K in debt after residency if you had a kid or two along the way.

I know. I lived it. And we are not as well off as you would think. Not if you are an ER doc. It was too big a price to pay if you want the truth, at least for our family .

Last Edited by allisaTX on 12/13/2012 09:59 PM

Have to agree with Brief. If they were worth more, they would get paid more. This should be self-evident for any honest man.

But, part of the reason they are worth less has NOTHING at all to do with HOW they are as human beings. Some had jobs shipped overseas. Some had jobs lost to computerization and automation. No fault of theirs. It just is. No easy answer to make it better, either. No need to cast stones.

The REAL reason we are so bitter is because we have been betrayed, not by men like Brief, but by ourselves.

We let them do it to us.

Republicans let sweet speakers spin a tale of bountiful times with free trade. Meanwhile globalization of our jobs has decimated the American worker. Not that the Democrats are fighting it.

Democrats wax eloquently about how we must protect and honor new illegal immigrants, while ignoring their effects on the wages of the American worker. Not that Republicans mind the cheap labor.

Obama doesn't throw the thief Corzine in jail for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars illegally with MF Global. Republicans don't say hardly a word because they are paid by the same master.

Stop quibbling bullshit. All those at the top are your enemy.

And if you are an ER doc...you get no respect, almost none.

And April 15th is a joy. I/3 of your paycheck goes to Uncle Sam. And then you have the hell of worrying if you underpaid during the year.

It's just a grand life being an ER doc...but it's all how you take it of course and some can get off the treadmill long enough to figure out they are not taking it very well....other's can't, because of a host of reasons they keep on doing what they believe is right, even if it's killing them....and that's my husband...it's killing him, but he can't stop and it's a damn shame.

So be nice to your ER doc on your next visit.

Thanks!

Last Edited by allisaTX on 12/13/2012 10:11 PM

Why do you get no respect as an ER doc?

A friend of mine and his wife (met in dental school) are 40 and a million dollars in debt...that's $1,000,000.00 plus interest for loans on school, house, car, and buying a small practice...plus interest...if they make 300K a year, Obama considers them rich, but that barely puts food on the table with all their payments and hiring a couple of helping hands...

I believe it is because ER docs are seeing people at their worst. See patients no longer are respectful of their doctors in general. This is a level one trauma center. Patients demand antibiotics, they demand plastic surgeons for a small laceration, they demand pregnancy tests, etc. etc. And they demand narcotics. Many are thankful and understand, but not many.

Recently my husband had a patient or a "client" as they are asked to call them say to him..."Oh I remember you, you waited on me before"....ok....that feels like crap to an MD....call us elitist or whatever, but "you waited on me before?"

And the sad thing is he has lost the understanding that this is a noble life he is living...a noble profession...he has saved many lives, but he has had no life of his own..

we are separated..

Many a nurse do a docs job
they are smarter in many cases

Then why aren't they doctors?

It will take a few years but as dentists with own practice; this is a cash cow

unless they really f-up on someone and have a suit....

they will have $$$

just a matter of time

Numerous reasons I would imagine

some may not want to be a doc

others don't want the headaches
others don't want to high cost of schooling

so many reasons

Life is not a pure and orderly as you would like it Brief

You obviously have no clue of the state of the economy.

Then they accept the pay for their worth...

Wow, that's sad, because that puts them on the treadmill right away. Part of the problem is doctors are not very wise business people. We had been poor so long, we only took out bare minimum loans for living. So we lived above our means from the beginning instead of paying off loans and living modestly, I thought I should "live" a certain way. It was partly because we were in Dallas and it was such a different lifestyle from what the average northeasterner was used to living, especially back in the early 90's.

We were also a decade behind as are your friends. My husband finished his residency when he was 38.

Last Edited by allisaTX on 12/13/2012 10:37 PM