Every day in the newspaper or the TV news they are talking about employment. Currently the state of employment is bitter sweet. If you loved your job before...now with the chaos going on at the upper levels of orgainzaitons you have to work harder at loving it.
This past weekend was my weekend to work. It is a love hate relationship. On my weekend there are only 2 of us working...it reminded why during parts of my children's growing up years I worked every weekend. Although it was a challenge for the family...as in no family time on the weekends...it was a peaceful time to work and you always had either mom or dad watching your children in the safety of their own home. It is you and the job. Period. No one dogging your heels, you actually get to be a responsible adult. You know you have a job to accomplish and you do it. Just because there is no boss around doesn't mean you suddenly turn into a slacker...who you are, is who you are.
It was also a time to see what all these cost cutting measures result in...looking for toliet seat covers and replacing them yourself...cause the housekeeping staff is running their @#$% off. It is realizing that your area didn't get cleaned the day before because the garbage you left yesterday is still in the cans. Feeling totally sore because there is no transport tech on the weekends and so you have to go upstairs and haul patients down on their beds or guerneys. Looking for O2 tanks to transport, but the person on the floor doesn't know where they are stored because she has never worked this floor until today. The list was endless...
But, as I reflect today with my sore neck, wrists, back and feet...we made it. We as an entire team made it. We pitched in and gave care...at the same time trying to fathom how we will keep doing it with more cost saving measures to come...well it make the thought of hanging in another 8 years daunting.
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