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Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#1351: Jul 24th 2013 at 2:52:11 AM

[up][up]I know that feeling. I have a first name that's common in many forms. So... it's a lottery if somebody picks the right one. But, it gets worse! My surname is an uncommon, yet long, elaboration of a more common one — so people constantly get it wrong (usually by getting the first vowel wrong, chopping bits off the end or by doing both tongue). [lol]

The good news is... if they try coming after my blood by losing the first name lottery along epic lines and getting the last name hopelessly mangled, I can walk away whistling, as it looks nothing like me. evil grin

edited 24th Jul '13 2:54:38 AM by Euodiachloris

Pyrite Until further notice from Right. Beneath. You. Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#1352: Jul 24th 2013 at 2:57:47 AM

[up][up]I guess. I'm more used to complaints by this point, though.[lol]

[up]Heh. Wish I could pull that off. It would certainly come in handy.tongue

edited 24th Jul '13 2:59:08 AM by Pyrite

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Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#1353: Jul 24th 2013 at 3:02:42 AM

No "I guess" about it, Pyrite. Good on ya. And just remind yourself that most people are far more likely to expend the effort to complain than they are to spend the same effort to compliment or thank. The rule of thumb I was taught in Marketing (pre-internet) was if a customer is unhappy with your product or service, they'll tell about a hundred people. If they're happy, they'll tell about ten. The Internet simply increased the numbers by an order of magnitude or so; it hasn't changed the foundation ratio.

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#1354: Jul 24th 2013 at 3:06:22 AM

It's kind of sad how it's much easier for people to expend their energy in negative way rather than positive. Proof of the Original Sin, I guess.

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Pyrite Until further notice from Right. Beneath. You. Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#1355: Jul 24th 2013 at 3:38:16 AM

It's probably the second-best thing that's happened to me all week, but ungrateful bastard that I am, right now I'm just having trouble getting this Peanuts strip out of my head.evil grin

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InverurieJones '80s TV Action Hero from North of the Wall. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
'80s TV Action Hero
#1356: Jul 24th 2013 at 1:02:56 PM

[up][up] Well, you sort of expect that a thing should be good, so when it is you just go 'Hmmm' but when it isn't you hulk-out.

In other news: I'm in a quandary. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (for whom I already work on an retained on-call basis) and the Aberdeen Airport Fire Service are recruiting full-time firefighters. Which do I want more, knowing that I can continue my current arrangement with the SFRS in either case?

'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
jedimaster91 Since: Sep, 2010
#1357: Jul 25th 2013 at 7:46:50 AM

Among our patients today are three physicians. Out of those three, two of them actually showed up for their exams. Treating docs makes me nervous. Gotta do everything by the book and be super polite and professional. It's exhausting.

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#1358: Jul 25th 2013 at 9:05:52 AM

[up]Mum always maintained that treating other doctors was hell (although senior nurses were just plain scary). Only made worse by having to try telling a consultant to quit drinking as part of your job (no: brandy and medication don't mix, you know this...). tongue

Nervousness.

edited 25th Jul '13 9:06:12 AM by Euodiachloris

jedimaster91 Since: Sep, 2010
#1359: Jul 25th 2013 at 9:18:38 AM

Yeah. And telling a physician he can't have his morning coffee as part of the test....I'm glad I wasn't be one who had to tell him. tongue

Pyrite Until further notice from Right. Beneath. You. Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#1360: Jul 25th 2013 at 12:47:10 PM

Doctors make the worst patients, to be sure.

...Ach, horrible night to be on call. If I survive, I'll provide more details.

EDIT: Okay. Neutropaenic septic shock + dialysis patient = pain and suffering.

edited 25th Jul '13 1:32:30 PM by Pyrite

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blackcat Since: Apr, 2009
#1361: Jul 25th 2013 at 2:26:27 PM

Seriously, don't you ever get patients who need five stitches or have a broken bone?

Pyrite Until further notice from Right. Beneath. You. Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#1362: Jul 25th 2013 at 3:34:25 PM

Nope! (Except the one who complimented us. That one had bronchitis. [lol]) But then again, I'm on call in the Intensive Care Unit, so this is par for the course...

edited 27th Jul '13 4:30:05 AM by Pyrite

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Pyrite Until further notice from Right. Beneath. You. Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#1363: Jul 26th 2013 at 3:38:46 PM

Double post, in case anyone was wondering what happened after I posted previously... I should've gone home by lunch, but my colleague's patient started puking blood all over the place and we were already two down in terms of manpower, so it was back to the ICU for us. Got home after 36 hours of work, passed out in a heap. Sigh.

edited 26th Jul '13 3:40:00 PM by Pyrite

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Nocturna Since: May, 2011
#1364: Jul 27th 2013 at 1:27:09 AM

Oof. That's rough. I hope you get a chance to rest and relax before you have to go back to anything strenuous!

Pyrite Until further notice from Right. Beneath. You. Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#1365: Jul 27th 2013 at 1:42:10 AM

Too late. Went back to work this morning. The other patient that nearly went to ICU on Thursday night on my call wound up in my ward. So much for dodging bullets.[lol]

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Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#1366: Jul 27th 2013 at 3:19:43 AM

Sod loves you... that's all there is to it, mate. <hugs>

TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#1367: Jul 29th 2013 at 12:36:52 PM

I don't want to go to work today. But this is one of only three days this week I'm scheduled. Bah.

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drunkscriblerian Street Writing Man from Castle Geekhaven Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: In season
Street Writing Man
#1368: Jul 29th 2013 at 7:01:08 PM

So my day job actually kicked back on today. We've got work through this week and part of next, and if another contract comes through we'll have work all the way through the end of the year. Here's hoping, right?

If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~
Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#1369: Jul 29th 2013 at 7:01:36 PM

Everything crossed for you.

even if that may slow down progress on Hangmen a bitsad

edited 29th Jul '13 7:02:17 PM by Madrugada

TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#1370: Jul 29th 2013 at 7:29:10 PM

Well, I noticed a new camera in the snack bar area today. It's positioned to watch the publicly visible work area, which was formerly blind behind the counters by my observation of the security cameras.

I spent a good portion of my shift freaking out about it, since the main thing it would be for would be to keep snack bar workers (including me) under supervision/record our work in case it needs to be called up as evidence.

Now, I have exploited that blind area a bit (mainly for using my phone while on duty if I don't have anything else to do), but since I have a few counts of discipline in the snack bar, I keep picturing my bosses crowded around the monitor cackling about how they'll soon have the evidence they need to fire me.

This isn't the only employee-only area to have security cameras in it. The back storeroom, the front offices, and the front supply room have cameras, but I always figured it was more about catching unauthorized people in those areas. Since this area is visible from at least shoulder height on up from other cameras, that explanation doesn't seem to fit.

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Nocturna Since: May, 2011
#1371: Jul 29th 2013 at 7:48:53 PM

I read somewhere that the number one perpetrators of theft in a store are generally the employees. So that may be what they're concerned about.

blackcat Since: Apr, 2009
#1372: Jul 29th 2013 at 7:54:33 PM

[up][up]While a little paranoia in the work place is healthy and I understand where you are coming from, if they really wanted to fire you, you would be fired. Indiana is an at-will state.

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#1373: Jul 29th 2013 at 8:26:02 PM

bc: Not necessarily true. Sometimes they like to make sure you land on a blacklist and they can kick you while your down.

I have to wonder which employee's exactly are the number one thieves. In my experience it is the supervisors who do the most stealing in one form or another.

Who watches the watchmen?
Nocturna Since: May, 2011
#1374: Jul 29th 2013 at 11:11:04 PM

I don't think my source distinguished between types of employees...

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#1375: Jul 30th 2013 at 1:53:52 AM

[up][up]I second the supervisor thing: they have greater agency to nick better stuff with (hence, greater temptation). tongue


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