Gifts for L&D nurses?

Re: Gifts for L&D nurses?

• wtfisup member

  March 2014

  SaraJoy00 said:

  BrightEyes112 said:

  I see thank you gifts as quite different than tips.

  A tip can be taken as a thank you for your service.
  
  

  It could also be taken as a bribe, flirtation, or a request to buy drugs. But generally, we all understand that it's not. This is very clear and easily understood. In jobs where tipping isn't done, it would be offensive. If someone offered me cash, I'd be insulted. If they offered a token gift, like cupcakes, it would be really sweet. We all understand how it works.
  
  This is not a conversation about tipping. The differences are native enough that we don't even have to think about them in daily interactions.
  
  

  
  

  
  
  

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• sjn00 member

  March 2014

  wtfisup said:

  SaraJoy00 said:

  BrightEyes112 said:

  I see thank you gifts as quite different than tips.

  A tip can be taken as a thank you for your service.
  
  

  It could also be taken as a bribe, flirtation, or a request to buy drugs. But generally, we all understand that it's not. This is very clear and easily understood. In jobs where tipping isn't done, it would be offensive. If someone offered me cash, I'd be insulted. If they offered a token gift, like cupcakes, it would be really sweet. We all understand how it works.
  
  This is not a conversation about tipping. The differences are native enough that we don't even have to think about them in daily interactions.
  
  

  Yep. I understand this. I have already said numerous times it was a bad example, and I understand the difference. But the conversation about it keeps going because posts like this keep bringing it up =]

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• wtfisup member

  March 2014

  SaraJoy00 said:

  I see thank you gifts as quite different than tips.

  A tip can be taken as a thank you for your service.

  It could also be taken as a bribe, flirtation, or a request to buy drugs. But generally, we all understand that it's not. This is very clear and easily understood. In jobs where tipping isn't done, it would be offensive. If someone offered me cash, I'd be insulted. If they offered a token gift, like cupcakes, it would be really sweet. We all understand how it works. This is not a conversation about tipping. The differences are native enough that we don't even have to think about them in daily interactions.

  Yep. I understand this. I have already said numerous times it was a bad example, and I understand the difference. But the conversation about it keeps going because posts like this keep bringing it up =]

  You realize you JUST equated tipping and thank yous three posts up -- which was long after the bad example, which I didn't mention at all. Just take a moment. 

  
  

  
  
  

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• Read247 member

  March 2014

  Oh FFS. It keeps being brought up because what you said was horribly offensive to a lot of people. Instead of manning up and admitting your mistake and apologizing you continue to insist you "never said it." It may not be what you MEANT to say, but what you DID say pissed a lot of people off.
  
  Oh and btw, saying something obnoxious and putting a smiley face or "hahaha" behind it doesn't make it any less obnoxious. <-- see what I did there?

   

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• wtfisup member

  March 2014

  @read247, I really don't use "FFS" enough. I don't know if I've ever used it. But then people like you do and I'm like, "Yeah, I like that." 

  
  

  
  
  

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• sjn00 member

  March 2014

  Sorry

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• megzep member

  March 2014

  LilyGracesMommy said:

  Rachel5130 said:

  @ElTrain5 said:

  Do you think nurses side-eye homemade food? Like parents at Halloween?

  I was thinking the same thing. But I guess since they "know" who you are, it's not as weird. I agree with @wtfisup - I won't be able to plan that, and wouldn't want to take nasty old crap. I will probably buy something, pending I have a great experience, or maybe just do something nice for one person who sticks out to me most.
  
  

  Yes. While the gesture is still nice, most nurses wont eat homemade goodies. At least that's what goes down on the floor I work on ( med-surg, not maternity)
  
  

  This. While I appreciate the thought, I won't eat something somebody made and brought to the unit. It skeeves me out bc I don't know what their kitchen looks like or if they washed their hands....
  
  

  

   

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