Saturday, January 2, 2010

WORST night at work EVER...

Work today was HORRIBLE. Me and Steph worked the entire floor between the two of us because one of the Aids decided not to show up. So, on top of me already working a hard hall I had to worry about 7 more people. And it was crazy! Since it was so busy, I didn't answer one page until 10 minutes after the lady had rang it and she was livid! "I can't believe I can't get someone to come here quickly when I have an emergency"...her emergency: Her humidifier had leaked onto the floor. I calmly told her that it was just water and that it could easily be cleaned up. She continued to yell at me. When she told me to take it to the sink, she yelled at me when I tried to unplug it first. I told her if she wanted me help she would have to act nicer, and then left before I said something I'd later regret. When I came back with towels, she continued to complain that the 3 large towels I DID bring weren't big enough. For 20 minutes, me and Steph were cleaning up the water until we started getting a bunch of pages from other residents. Twenty minutes after leaving her room, she paged again and yelled at me for not coming back and taking the towels off her floor and not throwing away her humidifer. I told her that her towels were not my #1 priority because we were a person short and it was really busy. Her reply was "oh...sorry." Seriously, does she think we just sit all day twiddling our thumbs??! Atleast be nice to me if i'm helping you out or else I just might tell you NO, YOU FREAKIN DO IT! Oh, and I was helping another resident and I coughed a little and he told me I should have never came into work today if I was sick and that I had just exposed him....um, news flash, if I hadn't come into work then NO ONE would have been available to help him do ANYTHING. So when Steph came in to help (cause she's awesome and knew I was busy) he turned to me, waved, and said "bye bye, run along now". Wow...you're welcome you onery grouch. There are more stories just like that that happened today but I'm too tired to type them. Atleast there are some really sweet old people to balance out the onery grouches. Sigh. I better get paid time and a half for tonight!

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