What did you do today at work? /blog on

[The Kizzy]

Im not sure I would call that winning. Man, I would hate to have your job Kalec.

[xKALECx]

Im not sure I would call that winning. Man, I would hate to have your job Kalec.

I really don't know how to take my job. I've been in the ER now for 13 years, with 10 of those as a charge nurse. Some days I am grateful to be in my position. Helping folks when they are at most at need. It's very rewarding.

But the majority of patients we see are sick due to their own noncompliance, or stupidity. They are very ungrateful and just downright hateful. I've been kicked, hit, bit, spit on, threatened, and yelled at so many times I lose count. It makes you very unsympathetic, and bitter. When a drunk comes in cussing and spitting and jumps off the stretcher landing on their face, causing more damage than they arrived with, it makes me smile, and I get a sense of satisfaction from it.

Now don't get me wrong, I am very compassionate and focused when it comes to the "real" sick folks. But all this bad side of the job makes me a different person away from work. I don't like to socialize as much outside of my family, and I have ZERO patience. The stupidity of people make me so angry I could scream, where years ago I could overlook it.

The pay is good, and I only work 3 nights a week, so I guess it's a payoff. But to folks I meet who are going into nursing, I tell them to question hard their mental ability. It's not doing the job, it's dealing with it afterwards.

[araby]

Kalec my sis-in-law says the same thing, she's charge nurse in the ER also.

In fact she just lost her job of seven years due to having to deal with a beligerent (sp?) patient. the unwed teenage pregnant patient who was having diarreah (sp?) and she did it on the floor in the hallway. she had to clean it up, of course, when the mom said "that's right mop that floor because it's all you're good for" and when my sister-in-law finished with her after that, she lost her job. sucks. I think she had held her tongue for a really long time and finally it came out.

I fried my brain this weekend so I don't know we did at work today but I was there and wrote my charts. I'll double-check myself tomorrow, as well as get my ability to type/spell again. hopefully.

[Ginzburgh]

I predict Ginzburgh to say:

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Got to the office 15 minutes late, and came in through the back door so my boss didn't see me. Then I got a cup of coffee and BS'd with a coworker for 10 minutes in the employee lounge. Then I sat at my desk and turned on my computer, checked my email, logged onto the NT and browsed through the threads, made some smartass comments, then I checked my secret email that my girlfriend doesn't know about to see what my ho's had to say, then I did some personal banking, then I got up to refill my coffee and stopped to flirt with one of the skirts in the cubicles, then went back to my office and sat on my ass again, played some tetris, heard some footsteps coming towards my office so I got nervous and pulled up the company's emails and memos to make it look like I was working, then I stared out of my office window for a couple minutes and then realized it was break time, so I went back to the employee lounge to see if that skirt might be in there but she wasn't, so I bought a banana nut muffin from the vending machine, refilled my coffee again, and sat down at the plastic table and chairs and ate my muffin, then I went back to my office to check sales volumes and performance for a couple minutes, called my boss on the phone to let him know that Joe Schmoe was doing very well and that he should be commended on his sales volume (to make it look like I was working), then I went to lunch for about an hour and had a tuna sandwich from the deli right down the street, and then called my girlfriend to BS with her for a few minutes, then I went back to the office and checked out the NT again to see what people had said about my smartass comments, played a little more tetris, faxed a congratulations letter to Joe, went out and flirted with the skirt again, went to the water cooler to fill up my travel mug with cold water, went to the bathroom to take a leak, went back to my office, called the boss again and asked his advice on an incentive program I had for my sales team (just to make it look like I was working), then I took my afternoon break and watched Jerry Springer for 10 minutes, then I went back to my office, checked Nasdaq to see what my stocks were doing at the end of the day, turned off my computer and went home.


Tee Hee That was fun. I wish I had Ginzi's job sometimes.

Actually, I was in Las Vegas on business friday. Good guess though.

[Narrock]

Don't you wish you knew who the mole was in your department that is giving me all this info?

[The Kizzy]

That was actually pretty funny

[Ginzburgh]

Got to the office 15 minutes late, and came in through the back door so my boss didn't see me

My boss doesn't give a shit about what time I show up.

Then I got a cup of coffee and BS'd with a coworker for 10 minutes in the employee lounge.

More like 30 minutes

Then I sat at my desk and turned on my computer, checked my email, logged onto the NT and browsed through the threads, made some smartass comments

I actually move from my email to cnn.com, i don't check NT until the afternoon.

then I checked my secret email that my girlfriend doesn't know about to see what my ho's had to say, then I did some personal banking

I have no secret email and a gentleman never checks his bank account simply because he doesn't have to.

then I got up to refill my coffee and stopped to flirt with one of the skirts in the cubicles

Correct

then went back to my office and sat on my ass again, played some tetris, heard some footsteps coming towards my office so I got nervous and pulled up the company's emails and memos to make it look like I was working

I don't play games at work and I don't get nervous about not working. If I work at 25% capacity I'd still be working 200% harder than the executives

then I stared out of my office window for a couple minutes and then realized it was break time, so I went back to the employee lounge to see if that skirt might be in there but she wasn't, so I bought a banana nut muffin from the vending machine, refilled my coffee again, and sat down at the plastic table and chairs and ate my muffin,

The only time I ever "stare" out of my office window is when it's pouring rain and I get the pleasure of watching someone run from their car to the front door without an umbrella. Break time is for blue collars and so is an employee lounge with banana nut muffins and plastic tables.

then I went back to my office to check sales volumes and performance for a couple minutes, called my boss on the phone to let him know that Joe Schmoe was doing very well and that he should be commended on his sales volume (to make it look like I was working)

Actually, that is work.

then I went to lunch for about an hour and had a tuna sandwich from the deli right down the street, and then called my girlfriend to BS with her for a few minutes, then I went back to the office and checked out the NT again to see what people had said about my smartass comments

More like an hour and a half, I don't go to deli's I go to restaurants so I can sit down and be served. I communicate with my girlfriend only once during the day time and it's always by email. And you are correct, this is when I generally check NT.

played a little more tetris, faxed a congratulations letter to Joe, went out and flirted with the skirt again, went to the water cooler to fill up my travel mug with cold water.

As mentioned previous, I don't play games at work, I don't fax that's what "skirts" are for, I drink bottled water and only use a travel mug when I travel.

went back to my office, called the boss again and asked his advice on an incentive program I had for my sales team (just to make it look like I was working)

Actually that is working.

then I took my afternoon break and watched Jerry Springer for 10 minutes, then I went back to my office, checked NASDAQ to see what my stocks were doing at the end of the day, turned off my computer and went home.

My whole day is a break, I don't watch TV at work, I don't trade on NASDAQ and I leave my computer running when I leave.

Now let's compare my day to yours...

Normally I work graveyard shift 12-14 hours, starting at about 11pm. This week they needed me to help hostle the yard because of new store openings for Applebee's and Panda Express restaurants, and volume right now is painfully high, so the hours this week are 8am to 6pm.

After hostling the yard for a couple hours, I had to drop a trailer off at the Heinz ketchup plant in Stockton (that was kind of cool because in the warehouse they had hundreds of palletized ketchup cases with a sign on each load that said "FOR U.S. Troops in Middle East", then go back to the Sysco-Sygma yard and take a rental car to East Oakland Ugh to swap the rental car for a delivery truck who's driver who ran out of commercial vehicle hours. Then I had to take that truck to South San Francisco to pick up 9 tons of potstickers from a frozen food distribution plant for Panda Express and backhaul them to Stockton. It took forever because our California tractors are governed at 58 mph. Mad When I got back to Stockton I had to hostle the yard for a couple more hours. Then when I got off duty, I had a 70 minute commute home due to road construction. Today kind of sucked. I'm tired.

...and I'm 27 and probably get paid twice as much as you. Seems like the joke is on you.

[Gaazy]

Kalec, Mom was an ICU nurse in an open heart recovery unit for 20 years or so, and I can remember when I was younger her coming home crying when she lost patients. She always used to volunteer to take care of the kids that just came out of heart surgery, but theres no way I could deal with that kind of loss like that.

She still gets flowers all the time and we get christmas cards every year from people shes watched over. Kinda nice to see how the families are doin so many years later. And actually last year we went to dinner with a girl that she apparently watched and saved or whatever, who was her first baby that she took care of close to 25 years ago. Pretty funny actually, a lot of of those patients she she kept cant even remember the doctors name that worked on them, but they send thank you cards to their nurse 25 years later.

[Narrock]

Got to the office 15 minutes late, and came in through the back door so my boss didn't see me

My boss doesn't give a shit about what time I show up.

Then I got a cup of coffee and BS'd with a coworker for 10 minutes in the employee lounge.

More like 30 minutes

Then I sat at my desk and turned on my computer, checked my email, logged onto the NT and browsed through the threads, made some smartass comments

I actually move from my email to cnn.com, i don't check NT until the afternoon.

then I checked my secret email that my girlfriend doesn't know about to see what my ho's had to say, then I did some personal banking

I have no secret email and a gentleman never checks his bank account simply because he doesn't have to.

then I got up to refill my coffee and stopped to flirt with one of the skirts in the cubicles

Correct

then went back to my office and sat on my ass again, played some tetris, heard some footsteps coming towards my office so I got nervous and pulled up the company's emails and memos to make it look like I was working

I don't play games at work and I don't get nervous about not working. If I work at 25% capacity I'd still be working 200% harder than the executives

then I stared out of my office window for a couple minutes and then realized it was break time, so I went back to the employee lounge to see if that skirt might be in there but she wasn't, so I bought a banana nut muffin from the vending machine, refilled my coffee again, and sat down at the plastic table and chairs and ate my muffin,

The only time I ever "stare" out of my office window is when it's pouring rain and I get the pleasure of watching someone run from their car to the front door without an umbrella. Break time is for blue collars and so is an employee lounge with banana nut muffins and plastic tables.

then I went back to my office to check sales volumes and performance for a couple minutes, called my boss on the phone to let him know that Joe Schmoe was doing very well and that he should be commended on his sales volume (to make it look like I was working)

Actually, that is work.

then I went to lunch for about an hour and had a tuna sandwich from the deli right down the street, and then called my girlfriend to BS with her for a few minutes, then I went back to the office and checked out the NT again to see what people had said about my smartass comments

More like an hour and a half, I don't go to deli's I go to restaurants so I can sit down and be served. I communicate with my girlfriend only once during the day time and it's always by email. And you are correct, this is when I generally check NT.

played a little more tetris, faxed a congratulations letter to Joe, went out and flirted with the skirt again, went to the water cooler to fill up my travel mug with cold water.

As mentioned previous, I don't play games at work, I don't fax that's what "skirts" are for, I drink bottled water and only use a travel mug when I travel.

went back to my office, called the boss again and asked his advice on an incentive program I had for my sales team (just to make it look like I was working)

Actually that is working.

then I took my afternoon break and watched Jerry Springer for 10 minutes, then I went back to my office, checked NASDAQ to see what my stocks were doing at the end of the day, turned off my computer and went home.

My whole day is a break, I don't watch TV at work, I don't trade on NASDAQ and I leave my computer running when I leave.

Now let's compare my day to yours...

Normally I work graveyard shift 12-14 hours, starting at about 11pm. This week they needed me to help hostle the yard because of new store openings for Applebee's and Panda Express restaurants, and volume right now is painfully high, so the hours this week are 8am to 6pm.

After hostling the yard for a couple hours, I had to drop a trailer off at the Heinz ketchup plant in Stockton (that was kind of cool because in the warehouse they had hundreds of palletized ketchup cases with a sign on each load that said "FOR U.S. Troops in Middle East", then go back to the Sysco-Sygma yard and take a rental car to East Oakland Ugh to swap the rental car for a delivery truck who's driver who ran out of commercial vehicle hours. Then I had to take that truck to South San Francisco to pick up 9 tons of potstickers from a frozen food distribution plant for Panda Express and backhaul them to Stockton. It took forever because our California tractors are governed at 58 mph. Mad When I got back to Stockton I had to hostle the yard for a couple more hours. Then when I got off duty, I had a 70 minute commute home due to road construction. Today kind of sucked. I'm tired.

...and I'm 27 and probably get paid twice as much as you. Seems like the joke is on you.

You don't make $130k/yr. Nice try though.

[Tikker]

when you manage to hold down a job for an entire year, then you can make that statement Mindia

[Narrock]

when you manage to hold down a job for an entire year, then you can make that statement Mindia

I was a silk screen printer for 10 years. I was a cop for 3 years. I sold cars for 2 years, and I was a carpenter for 4 years. Luckily for you, you know what you're talking about roughly 50% of the time on a good day.

[leah]

busy day for me today (seriously, though)

we've got three different pubs going to print this week, so we're scurrying to get all the article in to design so we can get to the final proof and get them ready to go. i'm runnign out of things to do, though, because i did a lot of the first edits so i can't do a second edit on something i already did. oh well.

i really like busy weeks, especially since last week was a dead week.

[Tikker]

when you manage to hold down a job for an entire year, then you can make that statement Mindia

I was a silk screen printer for 10 years. I was a cop for 3 years. I sold cars for 2 years, and I was a carpenter for 4 years. Luckily for you, you know what you're talking about roughly 50% of the time on a good day.

so, in which of those jobs did you make 65k per year?

[Narrock]

when you manage to hold down a job for an entire year, then you can make that statement Mindia

I was a silk screen printer for 10 years. I was a cop for 3 years. I sold cars for 2 years, and I was a carpenter for 4 years. Luckily for you, you know what you're talking about roughly 50% of the time on a good day.

so, in which of those jobs did you make 65k per year?

I'm on track for making that this fiscal year.

[Tikker]

when you manage to hold down a job for an entire year, then you can make that statement Mindia

I was a silk screen printer for 10 years. I was a cop for 3 years. I sold cars for 2 years, and I was a carpenter for 4 years. Luckily for you, you know what you're talking about roughly 50% of the time on a good day.

so, in which of those jobs did you make 65k per year?

I'm on track for making that this fiscal year.

that was my original point foolman

ps, why'd you get fired from all the other jobs?

[Narrock]

when you manage to hold down a job for an entire year, then you can make that statement Mindia

I was a silk screen printer for 10 years. I was a cop for 3 years. I sold cars for 2 years, and I was a carpenter for 4 years. Luckily for you, you know what you're talking about roughly 50% of the time on a good day.

so, in which of those jobs did you make 65k per year?

I'm on track for making that this fiscal year.

that was my original point foolman

ps, why'd you get fired from all the other jobs?

I've never been fired from any job in my entire life.

[Tikker]

why'd you quit being a cop?

I thought that would have fit right in with your sense of self righteousness

[Narrock]

why'd you quit being a cop?

I thought that would have fit right in with your sense of self righteousness

I hated supervising inmates, I hated going on domestic disturbance/violence calls-for-service 20x a shift. I also couldn't stand the politics at the department, and I didn't like half the other deputies I worked with. Plus, I was in the middle of a divorce during this time.

[kaharthemad]

I had to explain to my boss why invalid ascii formats in a csv file would not allow open officel to open them correctly.... I also had to explain to him that I might know a little more about windows than he does. I had to build a server for someone who thought a nice place to set his cup of coffee was the top of his old server.

[Tikker]

Today I'm spending my time reformatting non-standardized spreadsheets so that they can then be imported into an access database

it's boring, mindless and tedious all at the same time

then once all that's done, I get to run brio queries against the new database to calculate network outtages and uptimes!

[Ginzburgh]

You don't make $130k/yr. Nice try though.

Ahh, you're right, I just got promoted to 80 + a mandatory 15% bonus at the end of the year. So that's only 92,000. Which is still 27 more than your making and I get to sit in a comfy chair in air conditioning and work from 9-5.

And also the fact that I am only 27.

How old are you again Mindia?

[Jay]

If Mindia likes his job more power to him. It's better than him being unemployed and sucking on the teet of the US government. I will say one thing though, I'd rather sit on my ass and make a little less than have to drive around those huge thingies and actually break a sweat to make 65k a year. Serious question Mindia, what will happen to your position in the company 2 years from now? Then 5 years? Then 10 years? Do you plan on working hard into your 50's? Not making fun of you asking a legit question.

[Ginzburgh]

Mindia fantasy inc.

I'm guessing "shit, I'm gonna own my own trucking company and hire guys to do the hard work while I sit back and count all my money!"

[Phlegm]

Mindia fantasy inc.

I'm guessing "shit, I'm gonna own my own trucking company and hire guys to do the hard work while I sit back and count all my money!"

By that time he should have a master and a Ph.D. from Charter Oak so the sky is the limit.

[Jay]

lol 15% mandatory bonus? Like you have to take the money or you're fired?