Work Frustrations
I wanted to turn right around and go back home when I got to work this morning. I was met at the door with horror stories about yesterday (I was off), complaints about having to stock our new cabinets in surgery, and just general crankiness. Come on people. At least let me get my coat off and get caught up on voice mail and email before you sock it to me.
I really didn’t want to deal with this nonsense, so I kept myself busy on a prepping files for storage in the break room for about an hour. I was still a little salty when I finished with that, but managed to avoid any other frustrations by keeping myself busy finishing off little nagging projects at my desk. I finished up the day on a more pleasing note, and then hung up some Christmas decoration after clocking out.
This always seems to happen when I take off a weekday (a product of me having to work weekends). I don;t mind working Saturday’s and Sunday’s because it gives me some time off on weekdays, except it crap like this morning that makes it a pain. It is nice to know that people value me being at work, but I need and would like to have some time away every now and then. You want to be a valuable member of the department that is missed when you are not there, but the place shouldn’t derail just because you took some time off.
There is some interesting stuff coming down the pipe soon, which should alleviate some problems and provide for some new opportunities for the department. Lets just hope things pan out well.