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HagridsSexyNippples t1_iyrf6c5 wrote

Reply to comment by shep_pat in What forced hospitalization feels like in New York City, as Mayor Adams pushes for more by psychothumbs

Do they not give nurses shift differential for working in these sort of dangerous wards? Because they really should. I used to work in a mental institution. It was hell. You really need to pay people a decent amount of money if you want them to deal with the potential of being injured all day. Places like mental institutions have high turnover because they don’t reward (pay) people enough to deal with what the job entails. My old job would take anyone with a pulse. Anyone. As long as you didn’t have a criminal record, they would hire you. This led to some shady people working with other vulnerable people, which made the patients lives so much harder, making the employees job harder, basically like a big cycle.

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shep_pat t1_iyrhz36 wrote

I don’t know how it works but it’s just sad in general. City agencies are short handed as are hospitals. Yet the pay isn’t keeping up with inflation or the cost of living

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fafalone t1_iyu89vg wrote

Sounds like they're missing out on good candidates desperate for a job by having a blanket ban on criminal records instead of only barring those whose specific offense provides a particular reason to think they're unsuitable for the job.

(In more civilized countries, records are sealed and employers submit a potential employees name to the police, who respond with a simple yes/no on whether they have an offense that disqualifies them from that specific job-- i.e. a sex offender wouldn't be allowed to work with kids or vulnerable adults, but would be able to get most other jobs, and a white collar fraudster would be able to work with kids, but not be allowed to work at a bank)

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