#aoc2024

[THEY],WILL DO WHATEVER [THEY] (the elites) WANT, WHEN THEY WANT.

Twice, in the past week, I’ve had confrontations with people at work. 

Now, granted, in the past seven years I’ve had plenty of confrontations. It’s the nature of the work - I’m a liaison between multiple different aspects of patient care and it’s a lot to juggle - sometimes I have to step on a few toes to get all the ducks in a row - it happens. Usually when it happens, it’s with another woman (the majority of people I work with are women), and it either blows over or we meet up after and share or viewpoints on what happened and one or both (usually both), will apologize and everyone goes about their day.

However, over the last week, both such confrontations have been with men.

One, with a resident who wanted me to ignore an attending physicians order to make his life easier.

Two, with a CRNA who neglected to mention certain aspects of a patient’s status and then proceeded to try and undermine my responsibilities by going against hospital policy.

Both times, I called them out - politely and professionally - as it happened.

Because of the nature of my job, there happened to be other people around to witness these confrontations.

Now mind you, I have more experience than both of these men and they both decided to talk down to me when I called them out. I refused to put up with it and stood my ground. Then, in the middle of me doing my job they each decided to make it a point to call me out in front of everyone and ask to speak to me privately.

There are a few things wrong with that.

You do not get to demean someone publicly and then apologize in private - if you did it in public, you apologize in public.

If they truly wanted ‘to speak privately’ they should have come up to me after and calmly and quietly asked if we could talk -  a scenario that I am perfectly fine with and has happened a multitude of times in my career.

You should never ever ever crook your finger at another adult and demand that they leave the room with you so that you can say who knows what to them. (You should be even more cognizant of the implied connotations of that if you’re a man speaking to a woman. Sexual harassment is not a good look.)

Finally, would you speak to a male the same way that you’re speaking to this woman? No? Then you probably shouldn’t be speaking that way to a woman either.

The worst part (or the best, I suppose), is that I had a new nurse with me both times. A new nurse who might not have stood up the same way that I did in the first place, or if they had, they would have been subjected to the demeaning act of being called outside for a presumed ‘scolding’.

It’s so important that women not only stand up for themselves but also call out toxic behavior so that younger women know that they shouldn’t put up with it either.

Point of the story, I felt kind of like a bitch for standing up for myself. Was I a bitch for standing up for my patient? Was I a bitch for refusing to back down? Was I a bitch for refusing to let these men call me out and privately harass me?

Maybe so.

Maybe I am a bitch.

But if women like AOC are considered bitches then I want to be a bitch.

Bitches get stuff done.

Oh, and the two men? They eventually apologized to me in front of the same people who they talked down to me in front of.

And the new nurses? They got a good lesson in standing up for themselves and their patients.

Tl;dr - sometimes all it takes is one woman standing up for herself to see that you should do the same

Imagine the power if, in 2024, we were to have Bernie Sanders as President and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as Vice-President (or the other way round)

Imagine the power. Imagine the policies.

ik who i’m voting for in 2024

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