Ah, Thursdays from hell, how I've missed you ... NOT!
They actually hadn't been bad through September, just long. This one? A bit more messed up than usual. Some of the things are fun. Others less so. I'll cut the work crap, though the third one is mildly funny.
Reason #984 why it makes no sense to have me case managing someone, even short-term to cover a leave of absence: I just finished a goal-assessment meeting with a client at 10pm. This is something that should preferably be done when the client is, I dunno, not ready to go home and crash immediately? Also, stuff came up during said meeting that should have been handled immediately, but could not be, and will have to be delegated. I have no authority to delegate to anybody, so I just have to ask all my overworked coworkers nicely and hope at least one of them can find the time. Seriously, I will do progress notes and other paperwork for anyone who asks. I offer regularly, and few take me up on it. But that I can do on 2nd and 3rd shift! The rest of it? Not so much.
Reason #1047 why my boss, though a very nice guy, is a horrible boss: He has needed to hire a case manager to replace me since January. He now needs to hire a case manager to replace the one who was just promoted to program coordinator. He has voiced that he does not see the need to hire anyone. Um, dude? You've been down a CM since January, and everybody is clearly fried as a result. Now you're down two. We have a budget, finally. We're drowning in per diems for coverage, and they can't do case management. Fix it already! Somehow he sees this as "adding staff." No, I stepped into hours that had been vacated by someone who was on FMLA forever and never came back. Someone who was not a case manager. For that matter, I was never technically a case manager. Meanwhile, we have someone going out on maternity leave in six weeks, and no plan is in place yet to cover her absence either. This after the cluster**** when he failed to adequately plan coverage for the last maternity leave!
Reason #354 why fandom and work aren't really mixy things, though not in a "bad" way:
Me to coworker I hadn't seen since last Thurs: So, when we were chatting last week, which Doctors did you say were your favorites? The 3rd and the 8th, I think?
Him: Um, were we talking about [hospital] or [clinic]?
Me: Um, television? *facepalm @ self*
In other news, I've apparently now got a rabid choreo bunny to match the rabid plot bunny. Because that's just what I need. Well, actually, it'd get me moving a bit more, which would be good. And there did seem to be a not-entirely-clear-but-there link between choreographing "Chinese Burn" and finally spitting out the Faith/Remus stories, so maybe there's just something about the process that helps me get into a character's head?
Or, you know, the Muses just find it irresistibly funny watching what happens when rabid bunnies of various creative flavors take a chunk out of me. That said, when I lit the candle at Their shrine tonight, there were extra thanks. I miss dancing. It, like writing, is one of the things that keeps me moderately sane. The fic-that-would-not-die and now this choreo bunny may well be the things that keep me from completely losing it this semester, or, if they don't, at least I'll enjoy losing it a lot more than I would without them.
Reason #984 why it makes no sense to have me case managing someone, even short-term to cover a leave of absence: I just finished a goal-assessment meeting with a client at 10pm. This is something that should preferably be done when the client is, I dunno, not ready to go home and crash immediately? Also, stuff came up during said meeting that should have been handled immediately, but could not be, and will have to be delegated. I have no authority to delegate to anybody, so I just have to ask all my overworked coworkers nicely and hope at least one of them can find the time. Seriously, I will do progress notes and other paperwork for anyone who asks. I offer regularly, and few take me up on it. But that I can do on 2nd and 3rd shift! The rest of it? Not so much.
Reason #1047 why my boss, though a very nice guy, is a horrible boss: He has needed to hire a case manager to replace me since January. He now needs to hire a case manager to replace the one who was just promoted to program coordinator. He has voiced that he does not see the need to hire anyone. Um, dude? You've been down a CM since January, and everybody is clearly fried as a result. Now you're down two. We have a budget, finally. We're drowning in per diems for coverage, and they can't do case management. Fix it already! Somehow he sees this as "adding staff." No, I stepped into hours that had been vacated by someone who was on FMLA forever and never came back. Someone who was not a case manager. For that matter, I was never technically a case manager. Meanwhile, we have someone going out on maternity leave in six weeks, and no plan is in place yet to cover her absence either. This after the cluster**** when he failed to adequately plan coverage for the last maternity leave!
Reason #354 why fandom and work aren't really mixy things, though not in a "bad" way:
Me to coworker I hadn't seen since last Thurs: So, when we were chatting last week, which Doctors did you say were your favorites? The 3rd and the 8th, I think?
Him: Um, were we talking about [hospital] or [clinic]?
Me: Um, television? *facepalm @ self*
In other news, I've apparently now got a rabid choreo bunny to match the rabid plot bunny. Because that's just what I need. Well, actually, it'd get me moving a bit more, which would be good. And there did seem to be a not-entirely-clear-but-there link between choreographing "Chinese Burn" and finally spitting out the Faith/Remus stories, so maybe there's just something about the process that helps me get into a character's head?
Or, you know, the Muses just find it irresistibly funny watching what happens when rabid bunnies of various creative flavors take a chunk out of me. That said, when I lit the candle at Their shrine tonight, there were extra thanks. I miss dancing. It, like writing, is one of the things that keeps me moderately sane. The fic-that-would-not-die and now this choreo bunny may well be the things that keep me from completely losing it this semester, or, if they don't, at least I'll enjoy losing it a lot more than I would without them.