WORKLIFE PAGES
...being some chronicles relating to what I do for money in this world...
something foolish, something wise both may just be a disguise won't it come as a surprise when you're deceived by your own eyes so anyway, while I'm out driving one of the visitors home (he's a kid who used to live there visiting his two brothers and friends who still live there), the storms get worse and the radio says two major storm fronts are colliding over Orange County (which contains Orlando) and there's tornado warnings... when I get back to the facility (yeah, the van wasn't swept away to Oz), everybody's sitting in the hallway cuz a code black (tornado warning) was called by the nurse in charge (with all the meteorological, administrative, and management skills and knowledge that comes with a nursing degree, of course... sarcasm, me?)... made for the start of an interesting evening... the place wasn't swept up and taken to Oz either, unfortunately... and later in the evening the birthday cake brought in for the overnight nurse was shared with all the kids, making for an impromptu and, for some at least, after bedtime party in the hallway as it was not coordinated with any of the staff... not a major problem, except for the hard-nose administrators who'll almost certainly hear about the bending of rules tomorrow from staff who like to report things... as for us staff on the unit, we'll just write off the delay and their unnecessary concerns to the tornado warning and nod our heads... but it got more interesting still when the unit next door had a code 12 crisis... now to get to that unit staff generally walk through ur unit and even though I pointed to the unit next door and told the staff responding to the crisis call that the code 12 was for the unit next door, one of the staff decided the crisis was all of our kids in laughing and talking the hallway with cake plates and started yelling at them to go to their rooms... that didn't sit well with the kids or me, since the idiot (staff) was ignoring me, ignoring the fact that there was a serious situation next door, and inciting our kids with unnecessary authoritative confrontations... it was worse because two other staff followed their leader (the guy who ignored me) and intimidated our kids... it didn't blow up, but had all the makings of another major problem that would have been blamed on the kids and unit staff (including me) who supposedly couldn't control them... later in the evening the administrator on call called in to check on the riot because the staff who ignored me and nearly caused a small riot called him to report our unit... I doubt we'll be hearing anything about it tomorrow because by the time I was through explaining (with some vigor) the actual events, he was apologizing and asking what he could do to help prevent a future occurance and after semi-jokingly saying get their ears checked, he agreed that staff responding to a crisis call should first know where they are going so they could actually get to help the staff in the crisis and second should not enter a unit and blindly address the kids, no less disregard disregard the staff and address the kids with hard-line authority... some people are just like that... and others are just plain burnt out... in any case, another typical Sunday evening at work J WORKLIFE INDEX MORE WORKLIFE LOOK OVER MY RESUME SEND JOB LEAD HELP THE SAME-TIME MENU BAR - FOR EACH GARDEN AROUND THIS SAME TIME NEW KIT WORKLIFE LIFETIME JOURNAL HEARTBEAT WANTS E-GROUPS GARDENS FRONT DOOR MAINGATE BACK DOOR WINDOW WHAT'S NEW WANT LIST WORKLIFE LIFETIMES KIT JOURNALS HEARTBEATS FAREWELL  EMAIL
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