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Sage · 06-05-2005, 09:52 PM

Well... currently I'm not in a job (hallelujah) BUT I used to work in the clerical department in the Lab at the hospital here in Asheville. A typical day was something like:

(Mission Lab, weekday):

Martel drops me off around 2:20. Come in by the loading dock, swing around to the break room, use the phone to "clock in", drop my stuff in a locker, get some water and see if there's any good magazines in the staff lounge. Steal them if there were, go into the bathroom and read for about ten to twenty minutes. Put the mags back, go into the lab, realize that there's only going to be four people there the entire day. AND Wald (super head boss) and Wanda (some sort of boss, but severely bitchy) are both wandering around. AND Vivian (super bitchy shift supervisor) is working on the side of the street. Groan inwardly.

Answer phone calls from irate nurses who can't do their jobs so they expect me to do it. Dispach phlebotomists (who get blood for testing) and try not to bitch at them when they whine that their slacking off has been inturrupted. Check in dead bodies at the morgue, placating Larry (the head dead guy guy) and hoping he's in a good mood. Give out test results over the phone and fax to all the people in the county who use the lab for testing. Take eyeballs in jars back to pathology. Sort paperwork. Try to read my book as much as possible while not looking like I'm reading. Go back to Microbiology to talk to my buddies as much as I can without looking like a slacker. Gossip. Get the test results together and take them up to the floors to put them on the charts- grabbing my book from my locker on the way. Throw test results away, go read in the bathroom for two hours, come back to the lab and leave. Cry on the couch for an hour because I hate my job SO FUCKING MUCH.

On a weekend, I'd sit around and read all day, pretty much. Eight and a half hours of reading (even when its a book I like) is really bad for the eyes.

I am insanely glad I quit. Best thing I ever did. (Except for kissing Martel the first time).

06-05-2005, 09:52 PM	#4 (permalink)
Sage hoarding all the big girl panties since 2005 Location: North side	Well... currently I'm not in a job (hallelujah) BUT I used to work in the clerical department in the Lab at the hospital here in Asheville. A typical day was something like: (Mission Lab, weekday): Martel drops me off around 2:20. Come in by the loading dock, swing around to the break room, use the phone to "clock in", drop my stuff in a locker, get some water and see if there's any good magazines in the staff lounge. Steal them if there were, go into the bathroom and read for about ten to twenty minutes. Put the mags back, go into the lab, realize that there's only going to be four people there the entire day. AND Wald (super head boss) and Wanda (some sort of boss, but severely bitchy) are both wandering around. AND Vivian (super bitchy shift supervisor) is working on the side of the street. Groan inwardly. Answer phone calls from irate nurses who can't do their jobs so they expect me to do it. Dispach phlebotomists (who get blood for testing) and try not to bitch at them when they whine that their slacking off has been inturrupted. Check in dead bodies at the morgue, placating Larry (the head dead guy guy) and hoping he's in a good mood. Give out test results over the phone and fax to all the people in the county who use the lab for testing. Take eyeballs in jars back to pathology. Sort paperwork. Try to read my book as much as possible while not looking like I'm reading. Go back to Microbiology to talk to my buddies as much as I can without looking like a slacker. Gossip. Get the test results together and take them up to the floors to put them on the charts- grabbing my book from my locker on the way. Throw test results away, go read in the bathroom for two hours, come back to the lab and leave. Cry on the couch for an hour because I hate my job SO FUCKING MUCH. On a weekend, I'd sit around and read all day, pretty much. Eight and a half hours of reading (even when its a book I like) is really bad for the eyes. I am insanely glad I quit. Best thing I ever did. (Except for kissing Martel the first time). __________________ Sage knows our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's She answers hard acrostics, has a pretty taste for paradox She quotes in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus In conics she can floor peculiarities parabolous -C'hi