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correctiveshoes621Work Follies:
In the ambulance door lobby, there is a poster. It's almost eye-searingly, garishly colored, featuring a beach scene. In March. You know, beach umbrella, chair, towel, palm tree..someone in the office found it on the internet and printed it, and you just KNOW they're proud of it. It's 'advertising' a mandatory staff meeting - tomorrow? Thursday? Who knows? - and the title of said meeting?
"Having A Job"
The last mandatory staff meeting - for nurses, only - the Asst. Director of Nursing bragged about, 'the stack of applications THIS HIGH', that she has, and told them all, 'that it's just going to get worse' - and literally went around the room, pointing at each one of them and saying, "You'll be the first to quit. Then, you. Then, you. You'll last another couple of months, maybe..", and, so on.
It's going to be surreal. I can't imagine all of us sitting around in beach attire - "No bikinis or flip-flops" - WHAT? - while being baited and berated.
You can't MAKE this stuff up, folks.
*~*~*
Last night, my favorite resident, my dear Mister Lew, had a huge bout of diarrhea - the noro-virus is in town. While cleaning him up and changing his bed, he recognized me - "Don't I know you? Aren't you the one that I always talk to?", etc. - through his growing dementia. ♥
Then, "How do you sleep at night, working at a place like this? Aren't you ashamed? You should be ashamed, working at a place that treats people like this!" - and it made me cry.
He's right. And I am.
*~*~*
Back in January, I was written up for the police stand-off incident that occurred back before Halloween. Just in time for my annual raise - which I did not get.
Only at the top of the page the box for 'verbal' warning had been checked off, and then, scribbled out..and the box for 'written' warning had been selected, instead. However, at the bottom of the page, the description read, 'No attendance issues for sixty days to AVOID a written warning', and I took it to my supervisor, asking for clarification. She takes it to whomEVER, and I don't hear anything more about it - and time goes by. And goes by. And goes by.
FINALLY, I had to go to my supervisor AGAIN, about it - I had to chase them down - asking for resolution. Two months later. She can't believe they hadn't gotten back to me, blah blah blah -
- and, four nights ago, I am called down to D Wing for it - right when the sixty-day probation would have been UP, mind you - to find that NOW it IS, indeed, a 'written' warning, and that they've moved the date up TO MAY. NOW, I CANNOT CALL OUT SICK UNTIL MAY. FOR SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED BACK IN OCTOBER.
I'm scared to bitch about it, really, given the title of the BIG MANDATORY BEACHWEAR MEETING, coming up..and, yes, I've been combing the employment ads, and no, there aint much out there. Oy.
*~*~*
ETA: At least, there was THIS:
William Shatner gives space shuttle Discovery crew a fitting send-off
The space shuttle Discovery crew starts their final day aboard the International Space Station with a recorded message from original Star Trek star William Shatner.
The space shuttle Discovery left Earth for its 13th and final voyage two weeks ago, an 11-day resupply run for the orbiting International Space Station. The shuttle undocked from the station at 7 a.m. EST for the last time, but before the astronauts set out for their trip back home they were offered greetings from a fellow space voyager.
William Shatner, also known as Star Trek‘s U.S.S. Enterprise captain James T. Kirk, recorded a special message for the Discovery’s six-person crew, Spaceflight Now reports. The astronauts started their day at 3:23 a.m. with a familiar song to get themselves motivated: the original Star Trek theme. Instead of the usual Shatner monologue that is delivered over the opening credits, a special message was recorded by the veteran actor and dropped in as a tribute to the Discovery’s final crew.
Shatner read: “Space… the final frontier. These have been the voyages of the space shuttle Discovery. Her 30-year mission: to seek out new science, to build new outposts, to bring nations together on the final frontier, to boldly go and do what no spacecraft has done before.”
It doesn’t quite roll off the tongue the way the original does, but it’s a cute, fitting send-off for the current generation of United States spacecraft. The Star Trek theme was used as a wakeup song for the astronauts, selected by a NASA vote. It actually came in second place, behind Big Head Todd and the Monsters’ “Blue Sky.” The shuttle crew will hear that song tomorrow morning, as they complete their final preparations for their return flight to Earth on Wednesday.
In the ambulance door lobby, there is a poster. It's almost eye-searingly, garishly colored, featuring a beach scene. In March. You know, beach umbrella, chair, towel, palm tree..someone in the office found it on the internet and printed it, and you just KNOW they're proud of it. It's 'advertising' a mandatory staff meeting - tomorrow? Thursday? Who knows? - and the title of said meeting?
"Having A Job"
The last mandatory staff meeting - for nurses, only - the Asst. Director of Nursing bragged about, 'the stack of applications THIS HIGH', that she has, and told them all, 'that it's just going to get worse' - and literally went around the room, pointing at each one of them and saying, "You'll be the first to quit. Then, you. Then, you. You'll last another couple of months, maybe..", and, so on.
It's going to be surreal. I can't imagine all of us sitting around in beach attire - "No bikinis or flip-flops" - WHAT? - while being baited and berated.
You can't MAKE this stuff up, folks.
*~*~*
Last night, my favorite resident, my dear Mister Lew, had a huge bout of diarrhea - the noro-virus is in town. While cleaning him up and changing his bed, he recognized me - "Don't I know you? Aren't you the one that I always talk to?", etc. - through his growing dementia. ♥
Then, "How do you sleep at night, working at a place like this? Aren't you ashamed? You should be ashamed, working at a place that treats people like this!" - and it made me cry.
He's right. And I am.
*~*~*
Back in January, I was written up for the police stand-off incident that occurred back before Halloween. Just in time for my annual raise - which I did not get.
Only at the top of the page the box for 'verbal' warning had been checked off, and then, scribbled out..and the box for 'written' warning had been selected, instead. However, at the bottom of the page, the description read, 'No attendance issues for sixty days to AVOID a written warning', and I took it to my supervisor, asking for clarification. She takes it to whomEVER, and I don't hear anything more about it - and time goes by. And goes by. And goes by.
FINALLY, I had to go to my supervisor AGAIN, about it - I had to chase them down - asking for resolution. Two months later. She can't believe they hadn't gotten back to me, blah blah blah -
- and, four nights ago, I am called down to D Wing for it - right when the sixty-day probation would have been UP, mind you - to find that NOW it IS, indeed, a 'written' warning, and that they've moved the date up TO MAY. NOW, I CANNOT CALL OUT SICK UNTIL MAY. FOR SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED BACK IN OCTOBER.
I'm scared to bitch about it, really, given the title of the BIG MANDATORY BEACHWEAR MEETING, coming up..and, yes, I've been combing the employment ads, and no, there aint much out there. Oy.
*~*~*
ETA: At least, there was THIS:
William Shatner gives space shuttle Discovery crew a fitting send-off
The space shuttle Discovery crew starts their final day aboard the International Space Station with a recorded message from original Star Trek star William Shatner.
The space shuttle Discovery left Earth for its 13th and final voyage two weeks ago, an 11-day resupply run for the orbiting International Space Station. The shuttle undocked from the station at 7 a.m. EST for the last time, but before the astronauts set out for their trip back home they were offered greetings from a fellow space voyager.
William Shatner, also known as Star Trek‘s U.S.S. Enterprise captain James T. Kirk, recorded a special message for the Discovery’s six-person crew, Spaceflight Now reports. The astronauts started their day at 3:23 a.m. with a familiar song to get themselves motivated: the original Star Trek theme. Instead of the usual Shatner monologue that is delivered over the opening credits, a special message was recorded by the veteran actor and dropped in as a tribute to the Discovery’s final crew.
Shatner read: “Space… the final frontier. These have been the voyages of the space shuttle Discovery. Her 30-year mission: to seek out new science, to build new outposts, to bring nations together on the final frontier, to boldly go and do what no spacecraft has done before.”
It doesn’t quite roll off the tongue the way the original does, but it’s a cute, fitting send-off for the current generation of United States spacecraft. The Star Trek theme was used as a wakeup song for the astronauts, selected by a NASA vote. It actually came in second place, behind Big Head Todd and the Monsters’ “Blue Sky.” The shuttle crew will hear that song tomorrow morning, as they complete their final preparations for their return flight to Earth on Wednesday.
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Date: 2011-03-08 04:53 am (UTC)I really do not like your supervison/powers that be at all.
If anyone should be ashamed of themselves its THEM not YOU.
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Date: 2011-03-08 12:12 pm (UTC)But, as I live and breathe - God used Mister Lew to speak to me, and I heard Him, loud and clear. I just can't leave, grrl; it's not in me - I have to see this through. I am so blessed, I really love my people. Damn.
AND GUESS WHAT?!? They cancelled Teh Enforced Beachwear Meeting!
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Date: 2011-03-08 03:00 pm (UTC)I hope the "beach party" goes well, if that's possible.
::hugs::
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