I was clear on how much you hated it. That LEAN process is killer for employees. Do more with less! 😡 I’m also not okay with employers hiring a person to do one job and then treating them like a pushpin on a map that they can just move around whenever they want to. It’s tempting to think you might have been laid off if you hung on for a little longer. But probably not since you were a good worker. They likely would have just piled more and more work on you — until they broke you.
Maybe she really needed the money now and/or was afraid it would no longer be there later. What is an STNA? I know what a CNA is.
Oh, she did. One thing that rankles me is hearing financial advisors telling people they HAVE to start saving for the future. Don't get me wrong--I think it's a fine idea. But not everybody has enough disposable income to do so. Somebody making $80K/year? Yeah, they should be contributing to at least a 401K, if not investing other places. Somebody making $25K/year, with a family to support? That entire paycheck is gone the second it hits the bank. I've spent years working with people who live paycheck to paycheck and while I've definitely seen some bad spending decisions (you shouldn't get something out of the vending machine EVERY day, for example), mostly these co-workers were struggling just to pay rent or pay their mortgage or pay their car loan off. I feel sometimes the folks making more than a living wage don't always consider where that money to be saved is supposed to come from.
I totally agree with you. I think most people who have a relatively comfortable middle class or higher income have no clue how hard it is to live on — let alone save on — a low income. Absolutely no clue. It’s an abstract concept to many. It’s maddening to me when (a) people with a comfortable income are very judgmental about people who are living on low incomes and equally maddening when (b) people with very comfortable incomes are also living paycheck to paycheck when they are not at all in the same situation as low wage workers. How can they say it is impossible for them to live on $100,000 a year and, at the same time, have no empathy for someone trying to live on $25,000 a year?
Anyways...a STNA is a State Trained Nursing Assistant and is a step down from CNA. In Ohio, they're usually making around $25K to start off and work their way up to around $35K. I could guess approximately how much Granny was making at our former workplace based on MY salary...at best, going back to being an STNA would be a lateral shift financially and possibly a downward move depending on the nursing home she was working at and is now back at.
Thank you for clarifying that. It is maddening how much nursing homes charge their residents for mostly custodial, not medical, care and how little those same nursing homes pay their frontline workers like CNAs who deliver that care.
Average cost of nursing home by state:
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