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Dealing with the wickedest witch in the west. Argggggggggggggggggggggggh!
So let me start by saying, despite the fact I'm pregnant and considered high risk because of my miscarriage history, I have not reduced the amount of work I do. I have, spread out the work, instead of doing it all at once so instead of having days where I'm super stressed out followed by easy days. I now have a mix of hard and easy every day, so I'm not so stressed out. This is where the wicked with comes in.
So I already know I have a full load of work when I get into work last Tuesday. Then find I actually have an extra surgery. Le sigh, I had said I was capping them at 6 (still two more than the other surgeon does) but fine I'll do one extra.
The witch comes in and needs two short notice. Now this would mean 9 surgeries. 9 when its hard enough for me to get through 6 at the moment. So knowing my Wednesday is clear I tell her I can't fit her in today, but can do so tomorrow. She's start some long speech about how now because I can't do her two surgeries, 4 months of work will go down the drain, because she doesn't have anyone to run the boxes on Friday and how she'll have to scrub the two rats, because I can't do it today.
So I tell her I already have a full surgery load plus a repair for the person who already booked my surgery time today. So she says she'll talk to them to see if they'll allow her to switch with them so I can do her surgeries instead.
He didn't want to swap, so I go with the original plan. I skip my break and manage to finish all 7 surgeries by one o clock. Which is usually when the tiredness begins to hit. So I take my half hour lunch, then start working on writing up the post-op records, and making their i.d cards.
At 1:45 the witch appears at my desk, saying I just want to understand something. What do you want to understand? She then starts going on about how she noticed I was at my desk by one o clock. Which means there are 3 hours of my work day left, plenty of time she says to do two surgeries for her. Yep, she just can't give it up. She does this all the time.
Last time I said I couldn't do a surgery, it was on a day I had purposely scheduled to do none, so I could spend the day in the office catching up with paper work. So I would be available to answer the phone, since I was waiting for the surgery center to call and give me the details for my upcoming surgery.
She made it clear in no uncertain terms how stupid she thought it was that I was waiting around for a phone call and therefore couldn't do a surgery for her. OMG I'm so sorry I require a surgery! I got the other surgeon to do it for her, only to find out her fussing was completely pointless since the animal actually was done with the self administration portion of her study and actually no longer needed an i.v anyway -_-
So I point out, I really don't have the time for 2 more surgeries. It takes 70 minutes for the autoclave to sterilize tools. So I need to have my tools clean, packed in and in there so they can be sterilized in time before I leave. That also means I don't get to eat anything until 2:00 (that's a long time to wait for lunch when you're pregnant!) So she's like well, you can take a break and then go back. Um no, because then that leaves me little to no time to get tools cleaned and sterilized for the next day. My schedule is usually busy enough that I need them ready to go the next morning.
Besides, not only do I have that to do. The room needs cleaning, the now recovered animals need to go to their housing area. And since its my day for health checks I have to check over 300 cages to make sure everyone has food, water and is well, healthy.
So then she starts on the spiel again about how people are inconvenienced, 4 months of work. Then I really start to lose it and tell her just because I'm at my desk (a place I haven't seen until I sat down to eat just half an hour beforehand) doesn't mean I'm sitting on my ass doing nothing. She was a bit taken aback by that and started to back track and say that wasn't what she was trying to say.
Neither I say, is it my fault, that the other surgeon was busy today, and that the only other person who could have helped was on vacation.
She then goes on about the paper work. Well that stuff could have waited until tomorrow. You're missing the point I tell her. The point is the paper work is light, non stressing work. Something I need after having spent 4 hours of my morning in surgery! The point of not being stressed through my pregnancy. Doesn't mean having a hard day then an easy day. It means spreading out my day so hard and easy balance out. Being non stressed tomorrow does me no good if I'm crazy stressed today!
By the time all was said and done I was so stressed out I my chest was shaking. I left the lab to call hubby where I finally burst into tears.
Then here's the kicker. She later emails me to apologize, saying she's sorry if her tone was accusatory (how else was I supposed to take some of the stuff she was saying) and that she is pregnant herself and having to hide it because she's worried about it affecting her promotion.
Also its high risk so that is stressing her out. So immediately I feel bad, but then the though hits me. So shouldn't you totally understand why I don't want to over work myself right now? Why? Why would you go and stress someone out, you know is trying to avoid stress, especially when you are going through a similar situation?
I guess it shouldn't surprise me. This is the same woman who bitched about how much time I was taking off, while I was in the middle of a miscarriage.
I talked to my boss about her today. He basically said, well unfortunately she was stressed and you were the closest person she could take it out on.
Yeah, thanks, that's really helpful!
I really hope she gets one of the jobs she's been interviewing for out of State.
So let me start by saying, despite the fact I'm pregnant and considered high risk because of my miscarriage history, I have not reduced the amount of work I do. I have, spread out the work, instead of doing it all at once so instead of having days where I'm super stressed out followed by easy days. I now have a mix of hard and easy every day, so I'm not so stressed out. This is where the wicked with comes in.
So I already know I have a full load of work when I get into work last Tuesday. Then find I actually have an extra surgery. Le sigh, I had said I was capping them at 6 (still two more than the other surgeon does) but fine I'll do one extra.
The witch comes in and needs two short notice. Now this would mean 9 surgeries. 9 when its hard enough for me to get through 6 at the moment. So knowing my Wednesday is clear I tell her I can't fit her in today, but can do so tomorrow. She's start some long speech about how now because I can't do her two surgeries, 4 months of work will go down the drain, because she doesn't have anyone to run the boxes on Friday and how she'll have to scrub the two rats, because I can't do it today.
So I tell her I already have a full surgery load plus a repair for the person who already booked my surgery time today. So she says she'll talk to them to see if they'll allow her to switch with them so I can do her surgeries instead.
He didn't want to swap, so I go with the original plan. I skip my break and manage to finish all 7 surgeries by one o clock. Which is usually when the tiredness begins to hit. So I take my half hour lunch, then start working on writing up the post-op records, and making their i.d cards.
At 1:45 the witch appears at my desk, saying I just want to understand something. What do you want to understand? She then starts going on about how she noticed I was at my desk by one o clock. Which means there are 3 hours of my work day left, plenty of time she says to do two surgeries for her. Yep, she just can't give it up. She does this all the time.
Last time I said I couldn't do a surgery, it was on a day I had purposely scheduled to do none, so I could spend the day in the office catching up with paper work. So I would be available to answer the phone, since I was waiting for the surgery center to call and give me the details for my upcoming surgery.
She made it clear in no uncertain terms how stupid she thought it was that I was waiting around for a phone call and therefore couldn't do a surgery for her. OMG I'm so sorry I require a surgery! I got the other surgeon to do it for her, only to find out her fussing was completely pointless since the animal actually was done with the self administration portion of her study and actually no longer needed an i.v anyway -_-
So I point out, I really don't have the time for 2 more surgeries. It takes 70 minutes for the autoclave to sterilize tools. So I need to have my tools clean, packed in and in there so they can be sterilized in time before I leave. That also means I don't get to eat anything until 2:00 (that's a long time to wait for lunch when you're pregnant!) So she's like well, you can take a break and then go back. Um no, because then that leaves me little to no time to get tools cleaned and sterilized for the next day. My schedule is usually busy enough that I need them ready to go the next morning.
Besides, not only do I have that to do. The room needs cleaning, the now recovered animals need to go to their housing area. And since its my day for health checks I have to check over 300 cages to make sure everyone has food, water and is well, healthy.
So then she starts on the spiel again about how people are inconvenienced, 4 months of work. Then I really start to lose it and tell her just because I'm at my desk (a place I haven't seen until I sat down to eat just half an hour beforehand) doesn't mean I'm sitting on my ass doing nothing. She was a bit taken aback by that and started to back track and say that wasn't what she was trying to say.
Neither I say, is it my fault, that the other surgeon was busy today, and that the only other person who could have helped was on vacation.
She then goes on about the paper work. Well that stuff could have waited until tomorrow. You're missing the point I tell her. The point is the paper work is light, non stressing work. Something I need after having spent 4 hours of my morning in surgery! The point of not being stressed through my pregnancy. Doesn't mean having a hard day then an easy day. It means spreading out my day so hard and easy balance out. Being non stressed tomorrow does me no good if I'm crazy stressed today!
By the time all was said and done I was so stressed out I my chest was shaking. I left the lab to call hubby where I finally burst into tears.
Then here's the kicker. She later emails me to apologize, saying she's sorry if her tone was accusatory (how else was I supposed to take some of the stuff she was saying) and that she is pregnant herself and having to hide it because she's worried about it affecting her promotion.
Also its high risk so that is stressing her out. So immediately I feel bad, but then the though hits me. So shouldn't you totally understand why I don't want to over work myself right now? Why? Why would you go and stress someone out, you know is trying to avoid stress, especially when you are going through a similar situation?
I guess it shouldn't surprise me. This is the same woman who bitched about how much time I was taking off, while I was in the middle of a miscarriage.
I talked to my boss about her today. He basically said, well unfortunately she was stressed and you were the closest person she could take it out on.
Yeah, thanks, that's really helpful!
I really hope she gets one of the jobs she's been interviewing for out of State.