Random Thoughts

[Fireball]

Right, being conscientious can get you shit on by those who aren't. They're busy stroking the boss and getting the raises while you're doing their work. BTDTGTTS

[Silver]

On the spectrum of labor, I'm in the middle. There are a total of two employees, I've noticed, who will do extra work. Most everyone else are masters of appearing busy or hiding in rooms.

[arewethereyet]

Got to love an impossible situation at work that I'm trying my best to make easier on myself. On the split, some rooms in one hallway with other rooms in another hallway. Most other employees won't answer a light from my rooms, which means I'm doing more walking back and forth on bad knees than anyone else.

Then someone from corporate who doesn't know shit about how reality works, well this person wants me to go answer other people's lights a mile away from where I'm assigned. Mind you, those employees are in their hallway and ignoring those lights.

No sir, I'm not doing that.

While undergoing cancer treatment and having had a couple small strokes, my dad was in a really bad vehicle accident.  Husband and I drove out to NC to scope out what was going on with him.  We were met by a nurse griping that dad had thrown his IV pole over during the night and he needed to behave better...on top of everything else his left hip was crushed and his left arm useless.

A bit of digging on my part found that he had called the nurses with his call button about a half dozen times.  They were trying to respond through the speaker.  (Mind you, he was deaf as a post.)  I wanted to know why he had to call so many times before someone walked to his room to see what was going on before he used his last resort of throwing the IV pole to the ground.

Head nurse finally showed up.  We got an engineer to check the speaker/call box thing and it was faulty.  I was livid and nearly frothing at the mouth.  

The laziness you describe is a thing, especially at night when there are no visitors.

This was followed by me explaining to the nurse that she needed to speak up so he could hear her and she made a sign, hung it up above his head and then went back to damn near whispering.  Not to mention, she REFUSED to call him doctor no matter how many times I corrected her.

We did run into some absolutely excellent health care professionals along that journey but we came across more that were in the wrong line of work.

[Fake Messiah]

If Republicans are so good for the economy, then way are the poorest states all red?

[Jackalope]

If Republicans are so good for the economy, then way are the poorest states all red?

It's all the welfare being paid to the freeloading blue states.

/s

[Jackalope]

On the spectrum of labor, I'm in the middle. There are a total of two employees, I've noticed, who will do extra work. Most everyone else are masters of appearing busy or hiding in rooms.

My wife used to work in healthcare and the stories she told me about the lengths her co-works would go to to sham out of doing work was mind-blowing.

On another note, I've spent plenty of time in a hospital bed, and my experiences with nurses and caregivers other than doctors has been almost universally positive. It makes me wonder if the bad ones are all hiding in closets or something.

[arewethereyet]

On the spectrum of labor, I'm in the middle. There are a total of two employees, I've noticed, who will do extra work. Most everyone else are masters of appearing busy or hiding in rooms.

My wife used to work in healthcare and the stories she told me about the lengths her co-works would go to to sham out of doing work was mind-blowing.

On another note, I've spent plenty of time in a hospital bed, and my experiences with nurses and caregivers other than doctors has been almost universally positive.   It makes me wonder if the bad ones are all hiding in closets or something.

I don't know how you are, but I try real hard not to "bother" anyone.  Even after my heart attack, I was up cleaning my room a day later.

My daughter had a horrible experience after an emergency C-section followed by a second emergency surgery.  The damn day nurse even refused to give her a glass of water...that witch had better be thankful I was a thousand miles away.  There'd have been hell to pay had I been there.  

We really need to advocate for ourselves and for those who can't.

[Jackalope]

My wife used to work in healthcare and the stories she told me about the lengths her co-works would go to to sham out of doing work was mind-blowing.

On another note, I've spent plenty of time in a hospital bed, and my experiences with nurses and caregivers other than doctors has been almost universally positive.   It makes me wonder if the bad ones are all hiding in closets or something.

I don't know how you are, but I try real hard not to "bother" anyone.  Even after my heart attack, I was up cleaning my room a day later.

I have always tried to be a patient and gracious patient, I'd be dead three times over if not for medical intervention - if I'm ringing the nurse, it's important.

[Angrboda]

I've had few bad nurses, but the ones I've had have been really bad.

[Fireball]

I had a perforated intestine in '96. By and large, the medical staff was excellent, and the surgeons saved my life. I was in pretty bad shape. I remember that when the regular nursing staff was off the weekends, temp staff was in. I had an IV that quit working, and the machine was beeping away. I could hear cards being shuffled and people laughing and carrying on; very seldom did someone come by to check on me during weekends. I was there a month and lost over 30 pounds.

This caring carries over to many industries. When I worked as a mechanic, I did my best to ensure that I diagnosed the problem properly when a vehicle came in. I'd hate to think that I didn't do it right. Two parts- personal pride in doing the proper diagnosis/repair, and growing poor up as piss, I didn't like wasting other people's (who may not have had much) money. One might think that I'd rip them off to make more money. One would be wildly wrong. On top of that, the California Bureau of Automotive Repair told us that about 50% of vehicle repairs in California (and I'm pretty sure it isn't any different anywhere else) are unnecessary. Disgusting.

OttervonKittenKaboodleIV (where the fuck has Noone gone? that was one of his favorite nicknames) , I get where you are coming from. Too many people just want to coast through life and scoop up money. It stinks, bad, and you deserve better.