Thoughts on weather and Social Darwinism
There is probably nothing that gets me more enraged than the arrogance of the haves during states of emergency. The feeling was definitely there during my shifts over the weekend. This "I've been driving to work since Friday. "I" have four wheel drive." "People knew about this ahead of time, they should be at work." As if everyone else's situation is the same. As if everyone has been through this before. As if people don't have children at home who can't take care of themselves while their father or mother have to stay at the hospital for a week between 2 blizzards.
One of the co-workers who my supervisor threatened to terminate is 8 months pregnant. Yeah.
There was probably no better time for the haves to air there ignorance to the world than Katrina. (BTW-New Orleans, let the good times roll! I know this doesn't solve anything. But you've needed a honeymoon for ages. Oh, how I wish I could be there. Well, anywhere but here.) I heard a story about about how someone at a beauty shop said, "I think Katrina was God's way of flushing the toilet." To which a young woman replied, "Excuse me, my mother died in the nursing home in New Orleans that was flooded after the leaves failed."
Honestly, it all goes back to this game of blaming a victim so as not to feel vulnerable yourself. Blaming the rape victim for walking home by herself and wearing a short skirt.
There is a hospital in Northern Virginia that has been sending emergency vehicles to pick workers up and drop them off. Those who can't be transported are being housed at a hotel, paid for by the hospital, and given meal vouchers.
We get nothing. But this time, I think it has enough people rilled up that maybe some sort of collective action is in the works.
How about this: When public transit shuts down, if the hospital can't make accomodations, you are exempt from coming to work.
But maybe I'm only this fired up because it affected me personally. Perhaps, I had no problems getting to work, I might not be as righteous. Who knows.
What I do know is this. I'm applying to a hospital with a union once I pass my boards. I can't look the other way anymore.
One of the co-workers who my supervisor threatened to terminate is 8 months pregnant. Yeah.
There was probably no better time for the haves to air there ignorance to the world than Katrina. (BTW-New Orleans, let the good times roll! I know this doesn't solve anything. But you've needed a honeymoon for ages. Oh, how I wish I could be there. Well, anywhere but here.) I heard a story about about how someone at a beauty shop said, "I think Katrina was God's way of flushing the toilet." To which a young woman replied, "Excuse me, my mother died in the nursing home in New Orleans that was flooded after the leaves failed."
Honestly, it all goes back to this game of blaming a victim so as not to feel vulnerable yourself. Blaming the rape victim for walking home by herself and wearing a short skirt.
There is a hospital in Northern Virginia that has been sending emergency vehicles to pick workers up and drop them off. Those who can't be transported are being housed at a hotel, paid for by the hospital, and given meal vouchers.
We get nothing. But this time, I think it has enough people rilled up that maybe some sort of collective action is in the works.
How about this: When public transit shuts down, if the hospital can't make accomodations, you are exempt from coming to work.
But maybe I'm only this fired up because it affected me personally. Perhaps, I had no problems getting to work, I might not be as righteous. Who knows.
What I do know is this. I'm applying to a hospital with a union once I pass my boards. I can't look the other way anymore.