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on my way out of my current workplace.

My soon to be ex manager approached me to tell me I'm not allowed to use infusion pumps anymore because the doctor in charge of educating nurses at my current unit never explained that to me.

While true, I never learned to change pumps from any doctor, but from other nurses at another unit, where nurses without accreditation but experience teach nurses that, because otherwise shifts would have to be 14 hours long to be done with.

Same with taking blood samples, specially during emergencies btw.

Several nurses with less experience than me are free to do this, but she singles only me out. This is absolutely NOT retaliation.

Rant over. I guess the correct reaction would be to get the necessary accreditation, something she clearly implied is not going to approve, but I'm soon going to work elsewhere, so time to prepare to convince my new manager I want and need that accreditation and maybe some others as well?

Is this something that benefits me?

I go to work to work and then go home. I calculate how much time my commute needs so I can maximize my free time and don't waste time at the workplace before the shift begins. I don't owe my employer any unpaid time.

I'm the only one who thinks like this: my coworkers are full in the "we are a family" vibe and some of them come 30 minutes before the shift begins, what to me is an extremely idiotic idea. Why being at the workplace more time than needed?

This is nursing and I need to hear report before working. Our second shift begins at 12:35 but some coworkers want to start it at 12:30, even to the point of giving report without me, which is fine as long as they give me report about my patients. Each of us has, theoretically, 3 minutes to change into scrubs, but this is also ignored. They expect me to be at 12:30 fully dressed and seated, ready for report. Union says 12:30 is the time I enter my unit and change into scrubs, so I start at 12:35. My coworkers simply don't want to hear that shift begins at the hour it begins, the manager is passive.

Our union is very conflict avoidant.

I'm not the kind of person who does things like expected just because that's how it's always been done but if I question why I get yelled at. I like following the book because otherwise the manager's favorites get away working less and blabbing more.

I don't know if this is one of those situations where I should pick my battles and let it go. I feel they steal my free time.

And the union doesn't care as much as I do.

Don't suggest hobbies or human contact. It's been suggested and it doesn't work.

I have a job I don't particularly hate nor like, some coworkers I get along with others are just morons, I go to work, then buy groceries, go home, eat, watch tv, go to bed. Rinse and repeat.

On my free days I do sport and watch pirated netflix. I don't spend much money on clothing or media and save most of my paycheck. What for? I have no idea. I don't eat out because I like cooking my own food and restaurants are expensive and the food is bland.

Everything is so expensive nowadays btw...

Most people bore me. I'm like an atheist monk.

I don't want to kill myself or anybody fwiw. It's like I don't give a crap about anything or anyone and don't see what's the point of living.

I don't want to travel because it costs money.

As soon as my cognitive abilities start to fail I'm going to be very easy prey for any online scammer.