I am going back to work

[baymule]

I am staying home. I will not risk bringing illness home to my husband, he is healthy, but he is also a heart patient. Not worth the risk.

 

[Beekissed]

Me neither! You could find that you won't want to quit that job when it's time to do so....I can see you being a huge asset to a facility and in nurturing the elderly, while also bringing a ray of sunshine in with you every day! I love folks who work happy.

 

[baymule]

I worked from 5:45 AM to 2 PM yesterday, off today, then two 12 hour shifts. The concrete floors are a killer. I have to find scrubs today, hope I can find a store open.

 

[flowerbug]

I've spent the last 5 years walking on dirt. Too bad the nursing home is not a mud hut with dirt floors. LOL LOL

it'd be healthier there if they were! at least for a while...

 

[Lazy Gardener]

Also, having a quality set of custom orthotics can make a huge difference. As can sitting down when ever the opportunity arises. However, working in the field of physical therapy, during disease outbreaks, I would usually stand ALL DAY LONG, rather than sit on any surface in a resident's room. b/c to sit down meant carrying the microbes on my clothing from one chair to the next as I moved from room to room.

 

[Chic Rustler]

long ass day!

 

[CrealCritter]

Laundry and run to the end of the hall to the sweet mentally incapacitated man that wants to know if I have finished his laundry yet. When I leave the room he shouts I LOVE YOU.

👍

 

[baymule]

It sounds like they think they have you "by the short hairs" so they can treat you shabby and you won't do anything about it. I've never understood employers with that sort of attitude when, by just giving an employee a bit of respect they can get twice as much work out of them. Hope you can find a better job soon!

I have never been one to let anybody back me in a corner. I have never had a job that I HAD to have. If I could find that one, I sure could find another, and I have. I'm thinking right now I don't want ANY job. Yup, talking this out is helping me make a decision.

 

[baymule]

I got called in this morning ON MY DAY OFF because the administrator needed me to fill out a W-4. I've been there 3 weeks and she just now realizes I need to fill out a W-4? Then she hands me a ream of paper, most of which has been copied so many times that it was a faint shade of gray, for the most part unreadable. It was all sorts of stuff. There were 2 pages I was to initial each sentence or two, describing how I have received, read and understand a myriad of rules, laws, HIPPA, employee handbook and so on, that I haven't received, read and durn sure don't understand what I've never even got. I initialed all of them, getting madder and more disgusted by the minute. I filled out all of it, even though I had already filled out the first 3 pages when I was hired. I handed it back to her and gave 2 weeks notice.

I have never, ever, in my whole life worked for such a disorganized, rawhide, bassackwards outfit like this. The office is a series of tables, all covered with stacks of papers, it is a mess. Training was vastly inadequate, there is no training program. I'll finish out my two weeks. I'm not saying anything about what a crappy place it is, that's their problem, not mine.

On the financial side, I flipped several of the credit cards to 0% accounts and consolidated them. I paid off the smaller ones. so we are in pretty good shape right now. We'll be ok.

Thanks y'all for letting me rant. I

 

[FarmerJamie]

I am staying home. I will not risk bringing illness home to my husband, he is healthy, but he is also a heart patient. Not worth the risk.

I know the feeling. If I need to run out, I act like I am leaving a biohazard lab when I come in to the house.