Watching Old People Die

[RunsWithScissors]

Another angry phone call from my boss at my day-time job this morning.  Funny that she's trying to convince me to NOT quit by yelling at me, "I don't see why you want to give up all your clients for some dumbass-job delivering newspapers!  Seriously, it has nothing to do with what you're going to school for, and I think you're making a stupid decision!"

Yeah, I'm quitting a job that I work 40+ hours a week at, so that I can deliver papers from 2:00-5:30 AM seven days a week.  I make twice the money on my paper route (I've been doing both for about a month now, and my last day with my in-home care job is the 9th), I work less than half the hours.  I will no longer have to pay for daycare, I have no contact whatsoever with the general public, and quite frankly, I can't stand any of the clients with my other job anymore. 

Every day, I walk into old people's houses and clean up after them, cook for them, help them with medication, and most of the time all they do is complain.  Oh, yeah, it's must be my fault your family never comes to visit, it has nothing to do with the fact that you're an angry old lunatic with no sense of respect for anyone other than yourself and you smell bad and have no teeth.

Don't get me wrong, old people have great stories.  But, seeing as I'm the best (no, I'm not being cocky) worker this particular office of the company has, the 8 WORST clients in the entire area are my problem; and I have a FUCKING WAITING LIST for my services, because I can cook exceptionally well.  Lately, I've been doing my hours in their houses, just waiting for them to die.  Honestly, I will go to their funerals in red.  Probably something low-cut and shiny also. 

In the last month, I've been injured on-the-job 8 times.  By senior citizens.  No joke.  I've been burned, things have been thrown at me, one of the alzteimer's patients kicked me in the back while I was cleaning under his couch ($2000 hospital bill, because assaults aren't covered by worker's comp apparently), several damaged muscles from moving furniture around by myself because I'm not allowed to bring anyone along to help me with it, and there's also the odd form of sexual harassment that I really can't do anything about because if I open my mouth to one of the clients, they'll make a call to the office and I'll loose my job anyway.

One client in particular, I would like to disembowel and use his entrails to redecorate his daughter's Christmas tree this year.

It's just not worth it anymore.  This is my first weekend off in 2 months.  I think she's trying to appease me.  I bet she thinks she's clever.  That's okay though.  I took cookies to the office yesterday, and had baked little fake cockroaches into them.  Maybe that's why she was yelling. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I am The Good Reverend Roger, and I approve this message. 

[Reginald Ret]

One client in particular, I would like to disembowel and use his entrails to redecorate his daughter's Christmas tree this year.

i like you.

[Cainad (dec.)]

[East Coast Hustle]

ehh...it takes alot of patience and compassion to deal with someone who's old and knows they're dying. that's a scary thing for most people and frequently puts them in a mindset and provokes reactions that may not be entirely rational and which they would not normally have engaged in, and if you agree to take that work you kind of have to factor that into your thinking. there's no excuse for someone assaulting you physically, but it also doesn't sound like you have the best temperament for that kind of work. that's not a slam on you, it's an extraordinarily rare (and frequently otherwise pathologically disturbed) personality that is suited to caring for the dying.

however...if your boss is really that much of a twunt, feel free to spike her coffee with cucumber juice.

[rong]

feel free to spike her coffee with cucumber juice.

wut?

[Nast]

Cucumber juice goes right through you.

And then comes back for more.

[Requia ☣]

Did you even make enough to cover the 2000 dollar medical bill for that month?

[BADGE OF HONOR]

  That's okay though.  I took cookies to the office yesterday, and had baked little fake cockroaches into them.  

[RunsWithScissors]

ehh...it takes alot of patience and compassion to deal with someone who's old and knows they're dying. that's a scary thing for most people and frequently puts them in a mindset and provokes reactions that may not be entirely rational and which they would not normally have engaged in, and if you agree to take that work you kind of have to factor that into your thinking. there's no excuse for someone assaulting you physically, but it also doesn't sound like you have the best temperament for that kind of work. that's not a slam on you, it's an extraordinarily rare (and frequently otherwise pathologically disturbed) personality that is suited to caring for the dying.

This actually did make me feel better. <3

[East Coast Hustle]

glad I could help.

I have been there, and in fact I am STILL there. And I'm not much suited for it either.