Health Canada employees goofing off online

I wonder how many of them are members of CKA

27 clicks an hour is just enough to read a few newsstories and play the games here

F***in the dog is a full time job for some people. Drives me crazy when I see it because it makes it worse for the rest who need to access the net. Most don't bother and take pride in their work but there is always a few that make the mess everyone else has to clean up.

I used to work as a food server and kitchen dishwasher in a hospital here in Ontario. ALL the nurses seemed to work really hard at doing anything but their job. The reason health care is failing is because of it's people, not because of it's policies.

27 hits an hour on a news site: could that be caused by auto-refresh? I know alot of news sites have that - CNN for example - so that readers always get the news updates.

Anyway, other than the personal email client, which my former workplace (but not my current one) blocked with a firewall for security reasons, heavy personal internet use in common. Most good employers get that sometimes its busy, sometimes its slow, sometimes there are no priority items...as long as your shit is done right, on time, and you're not embarassing the employer or viewing 'inappropriate' content, nobody cares how you spend your time.

The above having been said, alot of that usage does sound really excessive and there obviously must be a productivity problem if there was an investigation in the first place. Dog fuckers are everywhere, most people will become dog fuckers if put in the wrong environment with little accountability.

BS you prick. Do you even have a clue what nurses do? have you any idea what disgusting things they do everyday to maintain patient health and the fact that many patients transfer their anger at their illness on to them?

Nurses bare the brunt of the impact of health care and as such are one of the most respected and trusted of professions and quite frankly should be #1.

Many people seem to think that being ill gives them a right to treat people like shit and transfer blame to them which is entirely what they do. Nurses get threatened and even assaulted by patients mad because their doctor ordered certain tests they find distasteful and fear the result and often transfer blame to their nurses. It is not a nurses fault they need to have a tube shoved up their ass for a colonoscopy. It is not a nurses fault they need blood work or dialysis.

Hell I have been threatened by patients when I went to take blood, patients who both do not realize that it is their right to refuse and it is their doctor who ordered the test. Other people in my profession as well as nursing have been assaulted by patients.

Both of our professions us to treat people like prisoners who are brought in under guard and/or confinement. We aren't trained to handle a beserk prisoner and any law enforcement person can attest that is always a possibility. Still, we are require to try and stick a needle in their arm, both risking us being infected by (very likely hep C) whatever they may have and by them seizing that chance for a weapon and grabbing that needle. Hell just the pain of it may set them off.

Still we do our job. So please take this to heart when I say go fuck yourself if you think nurses are lazy or incompetent and feel free not to avail yourself of their services. I'm willing to bet you will alter your opinion should you ever actually have experience with what they do.

Yep, nurses are overworked and underpaid if you ask me and 99.9% of the ones I had were damn good. I remember when I was admitted to the CCU on my 25th birthday. The nurses called down to the cafeteria and ordered up one of those personal mini cakes and stuck a candle in it. They even sang Happy Birthday.

On a another trip to the emerg with a dislocated shoulder, I had a wait of MANY hours. One nurse saw the agony I was in and brought an ice pack to me. Every 20-30 minutes she came back out with a fresh ice pack. Even when her shift ended, she made sure that someone on the next shift was doing the same thing.

Then again, it would seem that for a kitchen worker/dish washer to have so much free time to see ALL the nurses working hard at anything but their job, one could say the same about you.

I don't know about the underpaid part - my sister in law and brother in law are both nurses and pull in almost $100,000 a year with shift differential and occasional overtime. I'm not sure about Ontario, but in Alberta, nurses get paid quite well.

Still, they preform a vital service and deserve their pay. I know I couldn't do a lot of what nurses do on a daily basis.