#workblogging

[audible-smiles]

there’s a morbidly hilarious disconnect between the inherent angst/tragedy of veterinary medicine and the type of names people like to give their animals. I’m afraid Mr. Wiggles has lymphoma. Tater Tot is being admitted to the ICU. I’m here to pick up Bruce Wayne’s ashes.

[bitternanami]

annoying therapist here asking for the second time in like a month why i dont drive. last time when i described that i dont feel comfortable with it given how wildly people drive she told me 'well everybody goes sometime, so just hope it isnt you :)' which was obviously a hoot

tonight i told her we'd had this conversation before. and she said 'remind me, i dont remember,' so i did. explained that my family was in a car accident last year (sensible, sensitive topic to get her to shut up) (did not work) she told me i have to learn to take Risks (she says to me unmasked) that she would Teach me to drive because she 'doesnt like that for me.' liiiiike hellllllllll

i aim for tact. i tell her i have other priorities right now. she says 'like what?' 'like my health.' 'oh whats wrong with your health?' begging for this conversation to end Please

i tell her i have long covid (established, easy to explain, understandably disabling to most people) and im working on finding treatment and she tells me. she says 'oh i had long covid' (past tense???) 'and what helped me was taking a zyrtec every day in the morning' GOBSMACKED, READER.

'an antihistamine is going to help with a post-viral condition?' 'yeah 😊'

[lizardtakesflight]

just work venting, because (Arthurfistclench.jpg)

I work at a small privately owned company, which is great in how informal and laid back it is, but holy fuck when there are problems good luck getting management to fix it timely or well. we haven't had a front desk receptionist since the 6th. We've hired and brought in 2 people since then and both quit within their first day and nobody knows why so we can fix it. the people they e been pulling to cover (me and two other people) already have massive workloads to handle that we cannot get done if we're up answering phones and helping customers.

one of those other people is off today, the other one has a half day, and managments solution was to have an electronic doorbell at the front desk for customers to ring when they come in and then we have to get up and run across the building to help. It is front and center, with a sign, AND CUSTOMERS KEEP IGNORING IT. "oh I didn't even see that" HOW.

I have a fucking migraine, I'm drowning in urgent bullshit to do, I had to give a warning talk to someone who I supervise, and I'm going to have to stay late until we close so someone is here. I'm probably just going to end up staying up there because I'm not sprinting every 10 minutes.

I have to keep a mantra going of "I've had worse than this, I have had more stressful jobs, i have handled worse, this is nothing compared to that" but holy FUCK I want to just get up and leave. I hate this so much

[saint-tibbles]

if I RSVP to go to the work Christmas party will I ACTUALLY feel like going on that day? or will I go to the department breakfast, decide I’ve had enough people for one day, and then dip like I have the last 2 years…..

[drusilllas]

I love swaddling fussy babies like lmao good luck getting out of there

[raitrolling]

I forgot to show it but last week I updated the whiteboard at work

[cathartidae]

the cocks and the fucks

[facelessoldgargoyle]

this new guy also wrote an email to the customer cc’ing me and and my boss, saying that he was doing everything he could to get a solution (implying that we weren’t) and then was like “I wasn’t trying to point fingers at you. You know we value you, right” um well how about trying to actually make me feel valued??

[penroseparticle]

How are you not going to give me my bonus when my department is up 24k in revenue

[xmooncanary]

You ever read a fic that changes you so intensely as a person that you can't stop thinking about it so you sit in an empty chapel with a coffin behind a curtain for a service later in the day talking to a coffin about a fic that changed your entire life

[cantankerouscatfish]

one of the Nepenthes 'Miranda' in the mist tent is blooming!

[audible-smiles]

medical lab tests seem a lot more straightforward before you know that on the other side of those numbers there is a fiddly-ass machine with the temperament of a flighty racehorse and the reliability of a home office printer. "I can't detect the sample. oh, there's actually a blood clot in the sample, start over. also some vital piece of plastic inside me is covered in weird gunk, so you have to take me apart and clean everything. replace my reagent! clean my filter! run my quality control! restart the whole lab station! call the manufacturer! update my software! no, I can't tell the difference between bacteria and sperm, I don't even know why that matters."

[bitternanami]

woke up to a text in the work gc about how i fucked up something last week that they are only just now seeing like. oh man i sure was not equipped to have to emotionally regulate this soon upon gaining consciousness 😑

[newcakemix]

every day we have a meeting where we discuss something i distinctly remember already having both discussed and agreed upon. i’m feeling gaslit by the bureaucracy

[fairymint]

i think when i get home in gonna write up a bunch of bullet points that is felix's transition

b/c i don't think that I've ever covered everything in one post

[starr-eaterr]

drunk ppl at serious events make everything funnier