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[Chelagoras The Boulder]

Oh hey, i meant to post this up earlier, but i'm now in my second week of my mental health internship! Hopefully by the end of this i'll have a job in the field. Been off to a good start so far, first day they simulated what its like to have schizophrenia, so that was intense.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Patience Gonzales just came through with the cover art for LDW3.  I am going to try to have the book up by Friday night, which means it will probably actually be available next Tuesday.

[The Wizard Joseph]

Green light.  With the explicit promise that he will run interference when they inevitably whine about it.

Is this the guy that's ultimately in charge of all those dangerously foolish ass-hats you've been talking about? If so consider that it may be a set-up intended to get you in a bad position. I'm not saying it is so, but I've found that managers are never more dangerous than when they're "letting you do something" that shouldn't be necessary if they were competent.

Thought did cross my mind.

That said, the other shifts are useless.  I mean, completely and utterly useless.  Any move to get us fired would mean having to just put up with them being useless on even more shifts than they currently are.

I've found a simple workplace truth in my few years in the Laundry Services Department. It is very rarely the shitty co-worker that needs adjustment, like being berated. It is the person that allowed the behavior, knowingly and intentionally or not, that must be influenced. The only result of attempting to adjust the co-worker directly for misbehaving is thin compliance and resentment at best, at worst genuine and often veiled hostility.

I've more to say if you've an inclination to give ear.. or eye I guess, to it. My brain's just a bit far from the objective mode of thinking about anything work related ATM.

True...but these people are lazy as fuck.  I mean, the fridge had rotting food which expired in the summer in it, and they couldn't even be bothered to clean it out.  When I come in, I frequently find daily updated paperwork is pinned on top of the previous day's one...because someone couldn't be bothered to walk 15 feet to the bin and dispose of it.  Paperwork for the weekends, which is easy to update (you do it as people leave/arrive) is frequently so shoddy my co-worker and I spend 2 hours on our first night back on duty cross-referencing everything to make sure it's accurate, because it frequently isn't.

There's definitely a dearth of any kind of proper leadership or management here.  But it's festered to the point where it seems only 1 out of the 4 shifts is actually doing what it should be. We've shouted at management for months to fix it, but, well, you know what kind of idiots they are.  So now we'll shout at other people.

I've been the point man for picking up dirty and making deliveries to a cluster of our outlying clinics for about a year now. The last seven months of that have had me also tracking the levels of, and stocking, white doctor coats that the department now carries and distrbutes in lieu of the previous contractor. I've seen and made extensive written and photo documentation of the disregard for basic infection control procedure displayed by the staff. Coats get thrown on the floor under the clean ones or stuffed on shelves above them, dirty coats all too often get re-hung with the clean, personal items from outdoors have been hung among them, then there's the retaliation of folks messing up the racks after my reporting started to gain traction. Documentation of THAT was a major boon indeed!

I think what I'm trying to get at here is that these few bad actors are doctors and they "should" know better, but proved as intractably foolish as the worst folks in my own lowly department. I begin to suspect that disingenuous and incompetent behavior in a workplace is par for the course with a certain percentage of people no matter what they actually do. Then I got all Stoic about it and realized that if the behavior pattern was universal then it was also inevitable and getting mad was about it as helpful as shaking my fist at a stormcloud. I decided to let my anger go as much as possible and simply begin real and consistent documentation, despite it not being part of "my job", reasoning that the fuckers acted poorly so freely because they were used to "getting away with it".

Though "co-workers" my position is notably inferior to the MDs that I  attempt to service and so directly influencing their behavior on my own was not a viable option, no matter what documentation I created. So I decided that I would be as consistent about reports as I had been about being angry, every single day. I still get mildly annoyed sometimes, but the destruction of my false ideal about what folks "should" be doing in favor of analysis of what was actually happening has been an invaluable experience.

Not really sure where I'm going with this despite picking at it off and on as I could today. Might open a thread to try getting it all out.  Any of that sound useful Cain?

[The Wizard Joseph]

Oh hey, i meant to post this up earlier, but i'm now in my second week of my mental health internship! Hopefully by the end of this i'll have a job in the field. Been off to a good start so far, first day they simulated what its like to have schizophrenia, so that was intense.

Very glad to hear!

[The Wizard Joseph]

Patience Gonzales just came through with the cover art for LDW3.  I am going to try to have the book up by Friday night, which means it will probably actually be available next Tuesday.

That's awesome sir!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Patience Gonzales just came through with the cover art for LDW3.  I am going to try to have the book up by Friday night, which means it will probably actually be available next Tuesday.

Kick ass!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh hey, i meant to post this up earlier, but i'm now in my second week of my mental health internship! Hopefully by the end of this i'll have a job in the field. Been off to a good start so far, first day they simulated what its like to have schizophrenia, so that was intense.

Congratulations!

[Vanadium Gryllz]

I begin to suspect that disingenuous and incompetent behavior in a workplace is par for the course with a certain percentage of people no matter what they actually do. Then I got all Stoic about it and realized that if the behavior pattern was universal then it was also inevitable and getting mad was about it as helpful as shaking my fist at a stormcloud. I decided to let my anger go as much as possible and simply begin real and consistent documentation, despite it not being part of "my job", reasoning that the fuckers acted poorly so freely because they were used to "getting away with it".

Sounds to me like you have hit the nail on the head there.

[Meunster]

I think I've had to much for tonight.

I made an AI tribute to roger that basically just insults the user.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I took the GRE. Did not do too badly, despite taking it on short notice with almost no prep in the middle of an 18-credit term.

[LMNO]

Well done!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Well done!

Thank you! Now I can focus on not boning my GPA: I got Cs on both of my midterms this past week. The first Cs of my life. They'll both be thrown out so it won't affect my class grade, but only if I am able to catch up and do better on the next set.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I think I've had to much for tonight.

I made an AI tribute to roger that basically just insults the user.

This should be made available in 3rd world countries where they can't afford me.

[Meunster]

I think I've had to much for tonight.

I made an AI tribute to roger that basically just insults the user.

This should be made available in 3rd world countries where they can't afford me.

Let's kick start it.
Like inspirobot, but for masochist

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think I've had to much for tonight.

I made an AI tribute to roger that basically just insults the user.

This should be made available in 3rd world countries where they can't afford me.