I've been having a LOT of problems with my boss. I work at an assisted living home with 11 residents which is supposed to be staffed by two workers at all times. My boss, who is in charge of staffing, has left me working alone on way too many shifts, doing twice as much work as a normal human being is able to do (meds, showers, dinner, toileting, diaper changes, emotional help, redirection, entertainment and the list goes on...and never really ends.)

All of the people in the house have severe dementia and it is simply not safe to have just one person working in the house, especially considering we have 4 people who need two people to help transfer them from bed to wheelchair or wheelchair to toilet or whatever. I sent her a text about how I think we employees are being treated poorly when we're understaffed like that and the residents are getting neglected as a consequence and her response was a 4 part text saying how awesome she is at staffing and how hard her job is (she should try working one of MY shifts, then she'll know what hard work is) and how she has been staffing our house perfectly for months. Yet two people have quit in the last month and two more are about to quit and she has done nothing about it but send us agency people who have backgrounds working in preschools or whatever and have no idea how to even change an adults diaper, much less get them ready for bed or anything else. They get paid about 5 dollars more than us and we employees end up doing 90% of the work. The agency people aren't allowed to pass meds or do insulin shots which takes up half of the shift if you're doing it alone, and they also don't do any work unless you count sometimes washing the dishes or doing the laundry (if you're lucky). Yet she keeps either leaving us alone in the house or sending agency people to us which is basically like working alone. I looked at the schedule tonight when I got done with the majority of my work today and saw that I was scheduled with the same person for the rest of my week, presumably a new employee (yay?).

But before a new employee can work the floor they're supposed to get two shadow days to learn everyone's routines and how to do the job properly. Today I simply asked my boss, am I training someone new for the next two days, and if so, will there be someone else on the floor because we need two people working the floor for the residents to get the care they need and deserve? (they're paying 7000$ minimum for their rooms and it goes past 20000 if they need a lot of cares.) My boss's response was, why are you trying to talk to me on a Saturday? and then she got all defensive and completely dodged my questions like she always does and *****ed at me for a while. She's supposedly going to text me in the morning,with answers but I already know that's not going to happen, because it never does. She never gets back to people. She never even comes to our house to do any administrative work there. She just ignores us and hopes we won't pressure her to do her job. Well I've been pressuring her to do her job for a while now, because someone needs to do it before we all get fired for neglect and elder abuse because she can't staff worth a ****. Don't get me wrong, I love my job. Even with the long hours and butt wiping, and getting peed and pooed on and having to try to figure out what to say to a resident that just wants to "go home" or call the police, or call a lawyer because another resident stared at them for a minute and it scared them half to death. I can deal with that stuff. I love my residents and they love and trust me. What I can't deal with is a boss who doesn't do any work and makes my life a living hell trying to do double the work without double the pay. Last time I had to work by myself her excuse was "Well..I really wanted to fishing". She said that to my face. I just smiled and nodded until she left. But I am getting sick of this. And so is everyone else. I hear horror stories from everyone at my house and the other 3 houses on the campus that she's in charge of, and they're all about her laziness and shadiness, and drunkenness, and rage, and inability to answer simple questions or get back to anyone even in emergencies. She even makes us staff our houses ourselves for the most part. One of my coworkers who has since quit had a death in the family and she had to find coverage for herself with no help from our boss because our boss was "out of town", when in reality, she LIVES on campus and was seen several times throughout that day on campus. And that's not the only time that's happened. It's just getting ridiculous. I know she's stressed out about her job and I understand that because she clearly doesn't know what the hell she's doing. But she either needs to quit or get fired...and quick! Or I'm going to lose it on her one of these days. And I am not an angry or rageful person.

Am I the only one who's boss effing sucks??