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I think I'm getting screwed at work, and not in the good 'lets duck into the med room and play naughty aide and stern charge nurse' way.

When I signed on at this new gig I was told that I would float between Unit 3 & Unit 4. I wasn't happy about it, but I needed work.

After a month, one of the Unit 4 nurses moved on the greener pastures and I asked to have Unit 4 made my 'home'. This was done. Once in a while I'd have to float, but once in a while everyone has to float, right?

So they hired a new herd of nurses, one of whom is from my nursing class. We've been booked a few times where they would have us both down to work 4 and each time they would float me to 1 or 2.

So tonight as I am working on 2 and helping do new orders on 1, the nurse from 3 comes down and says a bunch of stuff ending with "..and you're the float nurse."

What? Wait a minute, when did -I- become the permanent float nurse.

If any one should float it should be one of the new hires.

Then I thought about it a bit more: I've been pushed off 4 to make room for my former classmate who it looks like will be a permanent full time nurse on 4, making me a full time float nurse.

Why?

We took our boards together on the same day, so we have exactly the same amount of license time under our belts. I have more LTC experience than she does and I have been at this facility for two months longer than she.

The only thing I am getting a whiff of is that her performance is unremarkable. Lacking in some ways. The supervisor theorized that perhaps I am being floated because I am doing a better job than she and that they want to keep her on one unit to let her concentrate on just one group of people.

So let me understand this. I want a unit to call home but can't have one and have to float because I am a better nurse than the one who just took my spot on 4? So then if I just degrade my performance to below that of my former classmate then I will be rewarded for my poor performance by getting what I want?

I think I just learned how government subsidies and jobs work.

I was going to hold off on looking at that job at the jail, but if they aren't going to be fair with me at work then there is no reason not to move on.