I work at an assisted living facility which is widely known for bullying and harassment of workers and usually getting residents under false pretenses.
I work in this assisted living facility and at 10 pm I need to leave to work at another facility. Now I have been bullied here by a group of people who have added more people to it .They have written me up for unreasonable things and blamed me for things that are out of control.Here it's normal for me to have a med tech snap at me and command me rudely to "get out right now or go there right now ".The RCA ,the EO ,the med techs are part of this group.They won't give me my requested days off ,leave and even right me up for beingbsick.But make it easy for othersNow since a new ALD has arrived and as per prior arrangement I was supposed leave at 10 pm to work at another facility .Now they demand tht I stay and go room to room ,open doors turn on the lights ,open.up briefs to show that they are dry .My last round is at 9pm.So now we are supposed to change resident 45 minutely ,wake them up from their sleep .All this so that I cannot leave at 10 pm.Manu residents have said that they do not want to be disturbed and once they wake up it hard for them to go back to sleep.The head med tech and RCA have told the med tech to make sure I'm going all my assigned rooms and doing this and she has to follow me and make sure that this happens .If I don't turn on the light and open.briefs ,the med tech will come and demand that I have to do that becsue the head med tech has called her and has asked her to make sure that I do this .The AlD keeps saying that it's to maintain cleanliness and safety if residents .Like this is someone's home and it's their right to.keep it messy. Not our job to force our personal belief on residents.
I don't know why we are waking sleeping residents and also changing them hourly. If the brief has a little bit of pee ,we leave it till after 2 hours .
I feel like the residents are harassed in the name of safety check and resident safety.This is wrong and it feels wrong right down to my bones. I feel sorry for my residents. Many have voiced not wanting to be woken up but I have little choice .They have a right to sleep and not be disturbed and harassed .This is their home and they should feel comfortable
I absolutely thank you for sharing with us and let us know how you are doing.
You don't seem to have a question for us in all your description of abusive treatment, but that's fine, as certainly we are getting your own side of this, and if you are the chosen victim of a gang of bullies there is little to be done but to leave the situation.
I sure hope you know how needed and valued you are in this day and time. I would leave for other employment. I wish you the best of luck.