So I’ve been a CNA for the last five years, and two years ago, I started working at an assisted living. Technically, at our assisted living facility, it’s caregivers or CNAs, and I never got paid extra for having that certification, but I didn’t mind it at first. I used to put in a bunch of 16-hour days for my company. Still, I got tired of working overtime because they constantly asked me to, so after a year, I stopped working overtime, but I was on time for all of my shifts and barely called off. This facility was very bougie. The patients pay between $10,000-$40,000 a month. We live in LA, and they barely pay us $19 an hour. We also got no yearly raises or anything. Also, even though patients paid that much, they would have a ratio of one caregiver to 15 patients.

The management of my company didn’t like me because I was polite to them, but I wouldn’t kiss them because they were utterly neglectful to patients. We had one patient at our facility that would constantly bite and scratch and hit staff every day, and they would tell us to suck it up and deal with it. They did no interventions for this patient’s behavior, and one time, the patient bit one of my coworkers, and they got a nasty infection and had to go to urgent care.

Some people work at the facility, and I’ll come into work, and the patients are completely soaked in urine. Usually, I try to be mindful or open-minded that sometimes patients soak themselves before the shift starts. But when I have these particular patients, if I take them to the bathroom every two hours, they’re not soaked in urine by the end of the shift. Another thing is they constantly got complaints about this one boy who worked there. He had worked there for three years, and management did nothing about it.

He would constantly not feed or check up on his patients, and then the nursing staff would get mad at all of us, stating that they’re all of our patients, but it’s like, how am I supposed to have 15 patients and then check up for someone who’s not doing their job. Another thing that management would do that was neglectful was we had these team meetings, and they said that they were mandatory because we did the training, but all of the training was things I learned in CNA school, like HIPAA or blood-borne pathogens.

The patients would get very angry and upset because they would have two meetings during the second shift, so the second shift workers needed to neglect their patients to attend the meeting. It would be me and another caregiver on the floor for 100 patients calling. Management would give me an attitude about not attending the meetings and telling us we needed to do training at home. Still, the problem with that is they wouldn’t offer compensation for the at-home training, which I’m pretty sure is entirely illegal.

One of the final straws was that I lived in an evacuation zone for the fire while some of my coworkers didn’t live anywhere near the LA fires. I had to leave work early to evacuate my apartment, and the nurse told me it was OK to go. They sent shady messages saying that if you’re on shift, you have to stay and all this type of stuff, and it’s like I’m affected by the fires, and I don’t get paid enough for my things to get burned up.

Recently, I went back to nursing school, and I was only working one day a week and on call. Because their census is low and I think they’re a bad company, they cut my Sunday even though they still keep neglectful people on the shifts, so I just told them I’m quitting. I don’t want them to cut my hours to be on call; I’d rather just go work for an agency because I have enough experience.

The staffing coordinator got upset and said that they would work something out so that I could keep my Sunday or move things around, but I was just over it and resigned. Am I the asshole for leaving my company with no notice?