Venting *please stand clear while volatile gasses vent*
I cooled down over the weekend from Wednesday and Thursday, but not after today. Wednesday at 4 in the afternoon a tech comments that it’s really slow. I just look at her and ask her straight up “Did you really just say that?” At close a pyometra(Pus filled uterus, needs emergency surgery) walks in and BOOM! stuck there till 9 at night. The one that said such a comment left by 630 at the latest. Thursday… a receptionist at 4 says the same thing from yesterday. Male dog who’s blocked and can’t urinate walks in. I got to leave at almost 10 and she sauntered out at maybe 7 cuz she wanted to watch. Come Friday, I get out at a more normal time… 630 to 730, but I didn’t have enough time to clean and wrap all the surgical packs. The techs that closed on Saturday had to be there for 2 extra hours getting the packs autoclaved…. I’m sorry, is it wrong for me to want to go home at a reasonable time? They get to leave at 430… and what they haven’t done around the clinic “*I*” have to do. I can’t stress the I part enough. If I don’t do it… I get in trouble. I’ve complained about getting out so late and that if people would do just one thing while they’re there before they leave… maybe I could get out before 7. I was not only told by the office manager, but also the owner… “You’re getting paid overtime for it”. Why don’t I see everyone else striving for this awesome and mystical overtime?
Oh… my favorite thing when I complained about having to be there for 12 hours and then needing to be back in 12 hours and the owner commented that for a year he used to do that. But, you made that choice. You’re the owner and you set the hours. I didn’t say “hey I want to be here all night and have to cancel plans with my friends”. Or the tech that complained she can’t stay long because she has 14 acres of land to work. I didn’t make you buy all that land. Then there is the many techs of ‘something to do with kids’. Totally didn’t make you have them when you were barely 18… or choice your asshole, deadbeat husband. Yes: I don’t have a spouse, I don’t have land, I don’t have kids, I don’t have the money to go out on the town every night with my friends, I’m going to go home and cook food for me and watch TV or play videogames the rest of the night… but it doesn’t make my personal time any less valuable because I’m not being social somehow.
Of all the techs there… I’m the only one that does/have maintenance to do. I service the blood analyzers, the dental machine, the a/c filters, the autoclave, and I dust the lab twice a month. Any given month 23 days out of it… I have something to do maintenance wise. Not always something epic, but I have something to do. But those 23 days excludes changing the dental machine compressor oil once a year and the quarterly data backup. But a few days ago the owner made his techs clean under the x-ray table… which hasn’t been done in at least 7 years when my Doctor started working there. After all of the cleaning one of the techs looks at me and says that you should add this to your list of stuff you do. At first I was joking… but she wasn’t. If she hadn’t had to clean it… she would have never thought about it. Why can’t someone else do something that’s time based? Why can’t you take a piece of paper and write down “clean under rad table” and do that once a month?
Nice and cliché, but I’m over worked, under paid, and underappreciated. The only time someone said that the work I did was appreciated was when I posted on facebook that the time and half I got on what I call hell week was not worth being so tired and feeling so bad because I couldn’t eat at normal times. Yay… once in 5 years I’m appreciated. I need to find new job >.>