I have a lot of things on my to do list or should I say a lot of things on my do anything but this list list. Today I got a couple things done. One being laundry. I washed all my bed stuff and put my new duvet cover on. It looks really good.
I also made some cheesy cheddar biscuits and they are delicious! I am still finishing up laundry and watching the Oscars. I hope to get more stuff done around the house on Tuesday. I decided to tackle just one room at a time.
Sorry this couldn't be a little more exciting but that was my day.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Who Knew I'd Have to Take a Number
This morning I was still pissed about the whole screech owl thing. I was going over what would be the best way to bring the subject up because I knew she wouldn't. There was no way she was going to talk about anything she messed up. C came in before the screech owl and I knew something wasn't right with her. She's usually talkative, bubbly and hyper. Today I never heard her say too much and she was the farthest thing from hyper.
The screech owl showed up and now I was torn. How do I bring up the whole blame thing and do I do it today because I knew C was ready to boil over. C made it to lunch without anything happening which surprised me. Shes really not one to hold anything in. I can't remember when it happened but I happen to come across the chart of the baby who got the expired shot. I asked if the parents were called so they knew what had happened and that the baby needed to come back to get another shot. This is when the screech owl said she was just sick about what happened yada yada yada. My reply to her was, yeah I heard I also got the blame for it. Oooohhh nooo she said. Her explanation was that she had said I was the last one to give a shot out of that vaccine bottle, 10 days before it expired and I should have put a note on it. I told her wow thats funny I thought thats why they put the date on the bottle because thats where I always check. She didn't have a snappy comeback. I think if she had my fist would have snapped upside her head.
Later this afternoon the pot boiled over. C has been working her ass off at home and at work and it seems no matter what the girl does she doesnt do anything right and someones always riding her ass. Today she had enough. There was a breakdown of epic proportions. I being the great employee that I am covered for her at the front desk lines were ringing people were signing in it was crazy. Now you would think knowing what was going on screech owl would step it up. Yeah ya know damn well she didnt. In fact not only was I answering phones, taking messages, making appointments, doing nurse call backs, I also had to take all the patients back because she sat on her ass.
So I am redoing the resume and putting it out there. And when I get a job with good benifets and pay thats better than the screech owl I will tell her to suck it!
The screech owl showed up and now I was torn. How do I bring up the whole blame thing and do I do it today because I knew C was ready to boil over. C made it to lunch without anything happening which surprised me. Shes really not one to hold anything in. I can't remember when it happened but I happen to come across the chart of the baby who got the expired shot. I asked if the parents were called so they knew what had happened and that the baby needed to come back to get another shot. This is when the screech owl said she was just sick about what happened yada yada yada. My reply to her was, yeah I heard I also got the blame for it. Oooohhh nooo she said. Her explanation was that she had said I was the last one to give a shot out of that vaccine bottle, 10 days before it expired and I should have put a note on it. I told her wow thats funny I thought thats why they put the date on the bottle because thats where I always check. She didn't have a snappy comeback. I think if she had my fist would have snapped upside her head.
Later this afternoon the pot boiled over. C has been working her ass off at home and at work and it seems no matter what the girl does she doesnt do anything right and someones always riding her ass. Today she had enough. There was a breakdown of epic proportions. I being the great employee that I am covered for her at the front desk lines were ringing people were signing in it was crazy. Now you would think knowing what was going on screech owl would step it up. Yeah ya know damn well she didnt. In fact not only was I answering phones, taking messages, making appointments, doing nurse call backs, I also had to take all the patients back because she sat on her ass.
So I am redoing the resume and putting it out there. And when I get a job with good benifets and pay thats better than the screech owl I will tell her to suck it!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
I'm Back and I'm Bitchin!
I know its been awhile but I got really lazy about blogging over the holidays and had other stuff to do so here's to me getting back on track!
The only thing I really have to report today is the fact that I am going to have it out with the screech owl tomorrow. She screwed up yesterday and rather than admit she made a mistake what did she do? She blamed ME! I don't work Tuesdays but apparently I am so good I can make her screw up while sitting in my living room 40 minutes from my office!
I get to work today and had a couple people tell me what happened. A kid came in for a well child check and one of the docs ordered a vaccine for the kid. Let me just say that when I went to school it was heavily stressed to check expiration dates on vaccines. We were taught to check the date 3 times. Once when you get it out, once when you draw it up and once before you put it away. I have only been working in my current field for a little over 3 years, the screech owl has been at it for over 35. You would think she would check the date. She didn't until AFTER she gave the shot and was charting.
At this point you might be asking yourself how was this MY fault that she didn't check the date? Well her excuse for screwing up was I was the last one to give that vaccine and I should have written on the bottle, or somewhere else, that it was going to expire soon. Yeah. This is where you scream ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?! Thats what I did. From what I understand everyone looked at her like she was on crack when she pulled that excuse out of her ass and it just made her look stupid. I would also like to add this is the second time shes done this in about 6 months. I didn't get the blame last time I forget what her excuse is but it really doesn't matter because she should have checked that date.
I can bet you the usual will happen tomorrow. She will come in to work and not say a word about how SHE screwed up and how she blamed ME for it. Thats ok because you bet your ass I will be bringing it up to her. I have decided that I am going to have her go into the office managers office and confront her there so I will stay calm and not have to be pulled off her.
Just in case though does someone want to start the bail collection now?
The only thing I really have to report today is the fact that I am going to have it out with the screech owl tomorrow. She screwed up yesterday and rather than admit she made a mistake what did she do? She blamed ME! I don't work Tuesdays but apparently I am so good I can make her screw up while sitting in my living room 40 minutes from my office!
I get to work today and had a couple people tell me what happened. A kid came in for a well child check and one of the docs ordered a vaccine for the kid. Let me just say that when I went to school it was heavily stressed to check expiration dates on vaccines. We were taught to check the date 3 times. Once when you get it out, once when you draw it up and once before you put it away. I have only been working in my current field for a little over 3 years, the screech owl has been at it for over 35. You would think she would check the date. She didn't until AFTER she gave the shot and was charting.
At this point you might be asking yourself how was this MY fault that she didn't check the date? Well her excuse for screwing up was I was the last one to give that vaccine and I should have written on the bottle, or somewhere else, that it was going to expire soon. Yeah. This is where you scream ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?! Thats what I did. From what I understand everyone looked at her like she was on crack when she pulled that excuse out of her ass and it just made her look stupid. I would also like to add this is the second time shes done this in about 6 months. I didn't get the blame last time I forget what her excuse is but it really doesn't matter because she should have checked that date.
I can bet you the usual will happen tomorrow. She will come in to work and not say a word about how SHE screwed up and how she blamed ME for it. Thats ok because you bet your ass I will be bringing it up to her. I have decided that I am going to have her go into the office managers office and confront her there so I will stay calm and not have to be pulled off her.
Just in case though does someone want to start the bail collection now?
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Candy Thieves
I got quite a surprise when I got to work this morning. N had to call off because one of her kids was sick so I had to work with Screech Owl. Ugh. The morning was ok, it went by pretty fast really. We had people drop off all kinds of goodies. We get lunch on Wednesdays and today it was a woman that just annoys the crap out of me. I know that's really not that hard to do but man. Our break room is shaped really funny so it's small when it comes to trying to get a number of people in there to eat. We can fit about 6 people at the table but its going to be pretty tight.
We go back to eat and this annoying woman has all her shit all over the end of the table. Its very obvious that we don't have much space to work with. She was nice enough to take up two spaces. One person even had to put her lunch in her lap to eat. I dropped a few settle hints about being able to eat at the table and it just didn't sink in. This woman talked the entire time I was sitting there. Nonstop. I couldn't take anymore and had to get up and leave the room. Normally I don't mind the reps that come in and in fact there are a few I love but not this woman.
The afternoon got rolling along and we slowly come to the conclusion that someone has stolen a box of candy from the breakroom. None of the patients go back there and after much questioning and thinking this or that person had put it somewhere we think we solved the crime. The lady that delivered our lunch from Fridays hijacked our box of Ester Price candy. Who does that?!?! We weren't mad or anything just kind of dumbfounded. A box of candy? Really???
We go back to eat and this annoying woman has all her shit all over the end of the table. Its very obvious that we don't have much space to work with. She was nice enough to take up two spaces. One person even had to put her lunch in her lap to eat. I dropped a few settle hints about being able to eat at the table and it just didn't sink in. This woman talked the entire time I was sitting there. Nonstop. I couldn't take anymore and had to get up and leave the room. Normally I don't mind the reps that come in and in fact there are a few I love but not this woman.
The afternoon got rolling along and we slowly come to the conclusion that someone has stolen a box of candy from the breakroom. None of the patients go back there and after much questioning and thinking this or that person had put it somewhere we think we solved the crime. The lady that delivered our lunch from Fridays hijacked our box of Ester Price candy. Who does that?!?! We weren't mad or anything just kind of dumbfounded. A box of candy? Really???
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Free Tuesday
The weather today was gross but it is Ohio. I would have rather stayed in bed but I got up and did some running. My first stop was the video store to rent The Dark Knight. I had enough credit at the store that it paid for the movie. Very good movie. I thought Heath did a great job. You totally forget it that it's him. I ran into an old friend too. When I say old I mean we were bffs in grade school. We lived across the street from each other and talked about how we had both thought of the dance we made to Superfreak. Yeah we knew Rick James before Dave Chapelle.
After that I headed off to lunch with a friend. We had made plans to get in touch this morning with a time and place. I called her and it went straight to voice mail. I didn't think too much of it and just started to drive her direction. I get to her town and try to call her again, same thing. At this point I am getting irritated. I drove 30 minutes and I am starving so I didn't know to forget her and do the couple of things I wanted to do, grab lunch and take it back home or go hunt her down. I opted for the later. I was still irritated because she lives on the other side of town from where I was from. I get to her house and shes still asleep (she works third shift). After she wakes up and I ask her if we are doing lunch she informs me she's broke. Thats really nice thanks for letting me know that BEFORE I drove all the way over here. She decides to call her daughter and see if she can borrow some money and after she changes we're off. Instead of her driving her own car she wants to ride with me. I don't mind but then I have to drive AGAIN to the other side of town. Grrr.
We went to a new place that I had gift certificate for and I got pretzel bites (YUM) and chicken chunks (so so). It was ok I can't say that it will be my first choice next time but this time it was FREE! After we had lunch we ran over to Stone Cold Creamery so I could pick up a cake that I had a certificate for. I had never had one of their cakes so I picked Peanut Butter Playground. It's soooooooooooo good. And I got a little thing of dark chocolate peppermint. I couldn't help myself. I then drove to the other side of town, again, to drop her off and was on my way home.
I talked to C about the funeral Friday. The doctor who owns the practice can't take a stand on what he wants to do, close the office all day or half the day. The funeral is at noon and it will take about 30 minutes to get there from work. I would work the morning but is it really even worth it to see patients for 2 hours? It's a mess. I will be glad when it's settled.
After that I headed off to lunch with a friend. We had made plans to get in touch this morning with a time and place. I called her and it went straight to voice mail. I didn't think too much of it and just started to drive her direction. I get to her town and try to call her again, same thing. At this point I am getting irritated. I drove 30 minutes and I am starving so I didn't know to forget her and do the couple of things I wanted to do, grab lunch and take it back home or go hunt her down. I opted for the later. I was still irritated because she lives on the other side of town from where I was from. I get to her house and shes still asleep (she works third shift). After she wakes up and I ask her if we are doing lunch she informs me she's broke. Thats really nice thanks for letting me know that BEFORE I drove all the way over here. She decides to call her daughter and see if she can borrow some money and after she changes we're off. Instead of her driving her own car she wants to ride with me. I don't mind but then I have to drive AGAIN to the other side of town. Grrr.
We went to a new place that I had gift certificate for and I got pretzel bites (YUM) and chicken chunks (so so). It was ok I can't say that it will be my first choice next time but this time it was FREE! After we had lunch we ran over to Stone Cold Creamery so I could pick up a cake that I had a certificate for. I had never had one of their cakes so I picked Peanut Butter Playground. It's soooooooooooo good. And I got a little thing of dark chocolate peppermint. I couldn't help myself. I then drove to the other side of town, again, to drop her off and was on my way home.
I talked to C about the funeral Friday. The doctor who owns the practice can't take a stand on what he wants to do, close the office all day or half the day. The funeral is at noon and it will take about 30 minutes to get there from work. I would work the morning but is it really even worth it to see patients for 2 hours? It's a mess. I will be glad when it's settled.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Not so bad
Today wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Screech Owl of course got all teary and gushy when we were talking about D but she didn't get too worked up. We were all down of course. I think the office is actually going to shut down for her funeral. I wasn't sure but seeing as how everyone wants to go there doesn't seem much choice.
I wanted to get up a little early today so I could eat some breakfast. I did get up a few minutes early but not enough. I drank coffee and didn't eat anything. Bad move on my part I know better. When I do this I end up feeling gross all morning.
It's the office managers birthday tomorrow so she brought in lunch. It was "some kind of stew". It sat in a crock pot in the break room all morning stewing. It had beef, tomatoes, onions, corn, green beans and who knows what else. I was not interested so thankfully I had forgotten she was bring in lunch and had brought my own. After lunch I had the pleasure of being stuck on the phone with someone who basically talked in circles for 10 minutes. I told him I did what I could but if he needed something else I could help him but the circles started again. He was nasty and rude and finally hung up on me. Bastard.
Thats about all the excitement I can handle in one day. Gossip Girl calls.
I wanted to get up a little early today so I could eat some breakfast. I did get up a few minutes early but not enough. I drank coffee and didn't eat anything. Bad move on my part I know better. When I do this I end up feeling gross all morning.
It's the office managers birthday tomorrow so she brought in lunch. It was "some kind of stew". It sat in a crock pot in the break room all morning stewing. It had beef, tomatoes, onions, corn, green beans and who knows what else. I was not interested so thankfully I had forgotten she was bring in lunch and had brought my own. After lunch I had the pleasure of being stuck on the phone with someone who basically talked in circles for 10 minutes. I told him I did what I could but if he needed something else I could help him but the circles started again. He was nasty and rude and finally hung up on me. Bastard.
Thats about all the excitement I can handle in one day. Gossip Girl calls.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Rainy days and Mondays...
I am not looking forward to tomorrow. Not that I ever look forward to Monday mornings but I don't think tomorrow is going to be fun at all.
The office manager at work had been in contact with the family of my sick coworker. It was very limited contact due to the fact that the family was at the hospital most of the time so we weren't sure we could go see her for sure. With the hospital being about an hour away we didn't want to make a trip for nothing. Friday night C and I decided we wanted to go and I got info for visiting hours. We had a plan to go Saturday. C called me and said the office manager called her and said D passed away Friday night. I was bummed I wasn't able to get down there to see her but the woman had been through hell. She's at rest now in a better place and I am okay with that.
I imagine emotions are going to be running high tomorrow. I can understand that but I dread Screech Owls reaction. She's so freaking dramatic about the stupidest shit anyway so I can't imagine what she's going to be like. I got to remember to take my medication in the morning.
The office manager at work had been in contact with the family of my sick coworker. It was very limited contact due to the fact that the family was at the hospital most of the time so we weren't sure we could go see her for sure. With the hospital being about an hour away we didn't want to make a trip for nothing. Friday night C and I decided we wanted to go and I got info for visiting hours. We had a plan to go Saturday. C called me and said the office manager called her and said D passed away Friday night. I was bummed I wasn't able to get down there to see her but the woman had been through hell. She's at rest now in a better place and I am okay with that.
I imagine emotions are going to be running high tomorrow. I can understand that but I dread Screech Owls reaction. She's so freaking dramatic about the stupidest shit anyway so I can't imagine what she's going to be like. I got to remember to take my medication in the morning.
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