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Hello,

As the post says I am a 27 year old family nurse practitioner in Virginia. I work in private practice, think family doctor, and my company from the beginning has required me to use my own personal computer. When I was hired I wasn't told about that, but instead on the first day, they told me to bring it and use it daily as it needs to go in with me to see the patients. I think this is crazy for a variety of reasons- lots of wear/ tear that I'm not compensated with, bring back/ forth- risk of losing it or it being stolen, patient's records on my personal computer, sick people getting germs on my computer and on and on. I have been at this position for 5 months and so far the mouse pad has stopped working because my hands are always wet with hand sanitizer. So then I had to buy a wireless mouse. I have a nice computer and I hate that it's being "destroyed" like this.

Today I have strep. Strep as an adult is terrible. I told my boss I could either stay home or stay home and work at home clearing lab results, ect. That night on the phone she said yes please work from home. First thing this morning they wanted me to install a timer to my personal computer that allows the practice to see how much time is being spent in each chart, for billing purposes they say. It is a google chrome timer extension. I told them that I would be more than happy to use that on a work computer (we have a few desktops) but I was not comfortable downloading a timer on my home computer. She said OK, but was clearly mad, then 5 minutes later had her assistant call me and tell me to stop working for the day since I wouldn't install the timer and that I was now only allowed to use a desktop at work.

This is on top of the fact that I have to clock in/ clock out on an app on my phone that tracks my gps. Yes, I have a master's degree and have to clock in/out even for lunch. During the entire time it is on, gps is tracked.

So listen, I know I need a new job but- is this legal? How do I approach this? I am now going to have to use sick/vacation time that I wasn't planning on using. I think I should be paid for my time today.

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Original Poster5 points · 15 hours ago

What type of computer do you think I could get?

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Original Poster3 points · 13 hours ago

EMR via broswer, it's cloud based. But then of course when I run reports they are downloaded and saved to my computer, and then usually my boss (an MD) or her medical assistant will upload my reports to google drive. It's bad I know.

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Not the asshole. Honestly if it was me, my husband and 1 of our friends out to eat, the bill came to $100 and your portion was $14 I would have insisted on picking up the whole check...maybe had you fade towards the tip. She's kinda bitchy, and your friend should have called her out.

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I would have done the same

Nta. That would annoy me so much.

I dont understand. Why were keys in the door at all? Are you saying he accidentally left his keys in the door? That's a silly thing to do and if I saw that I would have called my SO and told him he had left his keys.

5 points · 5 days ago

The keys were inside of the house according to OP; it's a door that needs a key to lock on either side. So he left his keys in the inside lock.

OP's bf had no context for her rudeness so he was rude back. OP is barely even a jerk though. Every adult at some point forgets their keys, and has had a short fuse / rude voice from being so exhausted.

/u/jip- should apologize for being rude-tired. BF should apologize for taking it out on them for leaving their own keys and then OP locking the door as if ruining BF's day was an actual choice.

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agreed; I just think I would likely call and let him know but also I know what keys are my SO's so if they were home and he was gone I would know not to lock the door...

Original Poster-6 points · 4 days ago

I feel I am prioritizing my word. We have the whole day off, why can't I do both based on the circumstances?

I feel something as deep and sacred as a marriage is meant to be taken with more patience.

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I would hate to be married to you

Original Poster1 point · 3 days ago

Please elaborate ^

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I just want someone who puts my needs over video games

I used to do this, but then when I started making more money bought nicer womens clothes. I like the nicer womens clothes better now, but there was nothing wrong with the kids clothes and no one knew it was kids clothes.

The above posts are valid, but also keep in mind there are medical conditions that cause profuse body oder that he may just not be able to help.

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Yes and all those medical conditions require treatment

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