The Salty RRT

Just a Respiratory Therapist bitching about their corporate job. Overeducated AF & drowning in student debt.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

Hi. Just your friendly, salty respiratory therapist here to remind everyone that nebulized medicine is also a drug, and I need an order to give it just like nursing has to have an order to give pain medicine.

Carry on.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

The best part of my workday is when I skip afternoon meetings to go get Starbucks.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

Been working my corporate job for about 6 months now and I still have no regrets over leaving bedside care.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

Long time no tweet.
Just stopping in to say hi & that I’m still here.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

Wish I could say that I am doing something important on the “errand” I had to leave work (home) to go run but really I’m just going to Starbucks to use my 50% off coupon.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

Great news: I got promoted!

Bad news: I have moved up a tax bracket 😅

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

I should clarify that this was a non-clinical person who questioned me in front of others.

Not tuh-day.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

Not me being petty Betty.

I am a damn smart RT and what you’re not going to do is question my clinical judgement, recommendations, or charting. 🖕🏻

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

And here is why I will never go back to being a staff therapist in a hospital as long as I can help it.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

I absolutely love remote work but an opportunity has come up for a position that I would LOVE to have and I think I’m going to go for it.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

Not me telling my estranged cousin to go to Hell in such a way that he looks forward to the trip.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

Some days I just want to get in on one of these $10K hospital sign-on bonuses and leave the corporate world.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

Showing up to my family’s Memorial Day cookout with a watermelon purchased from Target because my family is full of bigots and I love stirring the pot.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

This “asset to the workplace” is signing their new job offer this week. This offer includes a raise and a schedule that accommodates my needs.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

Tips for managers:
1: Don’t tell me I’m an “asset to the workplace” and then refuse to accommodate my needs.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

If you, as a manager, have a 97% turnover rate in a year, maybe you need to stop playing the victim and realize that you’re the problem.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

Tips for managers:
1: Don’t tell me I’m an “asset to the workplace” and then refuse to accommodate my needs.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

Idk how anyone who works for @UHC can sleep at night knowing they work for such a greedy corporation.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

Working somewhere that continues to boast record profits but is somehow unable to pay their staff the market rate is wild.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

.@UHC I just wanted you to know that I hate you with every fiber of my being. 🤗

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

Down with COVID.
My dad just mansplained to me the purpose of Symbicort and Albuterol.

My brother in Christ, that’s what a good chunk of my education was for.

[The Salty RRT @snarky_rt17]

Not my significant other getting a raise making their salary 2.5x mine.

Healthcare isn’t where the money’s at, kids.