...and I thought yesterday was bad!
So, our electricity went out last night at about 1am. No one else in the neighborhood lost electricity, just us. I was trying to stay awake to reset my alarm clock when it came back on, but fell asleep anyway. I woke up late, had to let Luke shower before me because he has a long drive to work...I woke him up, and went downstairs to start some coffee only to find that the cat had puked all over the rug and I didn't have any creamer left. I got to work late, and was bombarded with people who somehow thought it was my job to do the tasks they didn't want to do. I am so not good at confrontation, or setting boundaries...so was completely nervous at saying NO. But, I did it anyway, and it wasn't received so well....
My computer crashed about an hour after I'd been working. It just went black. Everything I'd done was lost...when it came back on, it wouldn't save or print. Then it went black again. The IT specialist for our site was out sick. Finally, I got going again, and was trying to speed type and enter data when a pop up notified me that our IT specialist was back?, and apparently did not know that my problem had been fixed. I kept canceling her request, but she kept coming back!!!
Thank goodness one of the reps was bringing lunch. I decided that I wasn't going to get much done anyway, I'd try again after lunch. During lunch, the topic of conversation was my favorite: Politics and Religion! UGH. I had to sit through each person's opinion about Bush and the way he is OVERUSING religion in politics...and how being pro-choice is not FOR abortion, and that the pope better watch out or he'll lose his following with his comments about Kerry and his stand on abortion, and that christianity was all that seemed to be coming out of Bush...on and on. I had sat through this before, but was just so uncomfortable...I could not say anything at all. Each time I tried to change the subject, I was completely ignored...so I went back to my desk...I had a lot of catching up to do anyway!
One of the candidates I called for a study yelled at me over the phone about birth control then hung up on me. My computer crashed again. I had 17 voice mail messages. I'm on a deadline for recruiting for a new study, but the coordinator for the study left me a voicemail not to schedule anyone for her this week or next week. hmmm....I had to fax an ad for approval to a sponsor, but the fax number she gave me was out of service. When I called her back, her voice mail said she left this morning and will be out for the rest of the week. Our lab tech was upset with me for scheduling too many patients today. She wasn't here yesterday when there were 3 times as many! I went to our little private office bathroom, where I discovered that someone had peed all over the seat and the floor and there was no soap.
So, I was just about at that point where if one more thing went wrong, I was going to have a meltdown, when one of the nurses came over. She picked up the hole puncher and chunked it across the office into the trash can just for fun. Her day had been like mine...we ended up having to take the thing apart and mix and match parts to another one to result in one working whole punch. We laughed so hard, mostly because we were delirious and our brains were fried, but that was the most fun I'd had at work since I've started.
I keep wondering why God has me working here...it's so stressful! Each time I get to feeling that I cannot take another day, something comes up - like car repairs - that forces me to stay. I know there is a reason. Strangely He made it all good today with a hole punch.
My computer crashed about an hour after I'd been working. It just went black. Everything I'd done was lost...when it came back on, it wouldn't save or print. Then it went black again. The IT specialist for our site was out sick. Finally, I got going again, and was trying to speed type and enter data when a pop up notified me that our IT specialist was back?, and apparently did not know that my problem had been fixed. I kept canceling her request, but she kept coming back!!!
Thank goodness one of the reps was bringing lunch. I decided that I wasn't going to get much done anyway, I'd try again after lunch. During lunch, the topic of conversation was my favorite: Politics and Religion! UGH. I had to sit through each person's opinion about Bush and the way he is OVERUSING religion in politics...and how being pro-choice is not FOR abortion, and that the pope better watch out or he'll lose his following with his comments about Kerry and his stand on abortion, and that christianity was all that seemed to be coming out of Bush...on and on. I had sat through this before, but was just so uncomfortable...I could not say anything at all. Each time I tried to change the subject, I was completely ignored...so I went back to my desk...I had a lot of catching up to do anyway!
One of the candidates I called for a study yelled at me over the phone about birth control then hung up on me. My computer crashed again. I had 17 voice mail messages. I'm on a deadline for recruiting for a new study, but the coordinator for the study left me a voicemail not to schedule anyone for her this week or next week. hmmm....I had to fax an ad for approval to a sponsor, but the fax number she gave me was out of service. When I called her back, her voice mail said she left this morning and will be out for the rest of the week. Our lab tech was upset with me for scheduling too many patients today. She wasn't here yesterday when there were 3 times as many! I went to our little private office bathroom, where I discovered that someone had peed all over the seat and the floor and there was no soap.
So, I was just about at that point where if one more thing went wrong, I was going to have a meltdown, when one of the nurses came over. She picked up the hole puncher and chunked it across the office into the trash can just for fun. Her day had been like mine...we ended up having to take the thing apart and mix and match parts to another one to result in one working whole punch. We laughed so hard, mostly because we were delirious and our brains were fried, but that was the most fun I'd had at work since I've started.
I keep wondering why God has me working here...it's so stressful! Each time I get to feeling that I cannot take another day, something comes up - like car repairs - that forces me to stay. I know there is a reason. Strangely He made it all good today with a hole punch.
posted by KariBryant @ 2:46 PM
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