Work Sucks Right Now
Lucy quit after just four days of doing minimal work with most of her hours spent cooing and clucking to the animals no matter how many times I told her to stick by my side to be trained. Oh well, she saved me the headache of having to fire her.
Last week I held an interview with Clarabelle. She had no experience in a Vet. setting, but her previous work experience was enough to believe she could do the job duties if trained because it showed the need to multi-task, work without supervision, work quickly and carefully and apply common sense. She has three dogs and four cats of her own so we all figured she wasn't totally ignorant about pet care.
Clarabelle mentioned she had once been bit by a dog, her own dog who has spent the past many months chained in the yard for peeing in the house. She is trying to find a new home for her dog and actually gave him away thirteen times but he was always returned within hours for trying to bite and urinating in the house. So now he gets attention when she "tosses his food to him every day". And "If you know of anyone wanting to adopt a pit bull, let me know".
Yeah right. I'm going to suggest someone adopt a dog with a history of biting.
She also mentioned a cat bite she received that became infected. "Maybe I should have stopped poking at it when I saw it was getting agitated".
During the tour of the hospital, she stuck her hands into each kennel trying to pet the dogs while totally ignoring the cats. Okay, maybe she is more of a dog person, but common sense says don't try to touch strange animals, especially those hallucinating while waking up from anesthesia, The look of distaste on her face when viewing the cats made me wonder why she owned cats. What type of life do her own cats have living with someone who obviously doesn't like cats?
Chaining her dog in the yard and tossing food to him, poking an agitated cat until she is bitten...if that is how she cares for animals she knows, how will she care for client pets? That is a question I had no interest in exploring.
The search for a capable person continues while I still cover Dora's hours. During the next two weeks Katherine is off several days and I will be doing the work of three people while one-handed and pretty much useless. My hours will continue long after the clinic closes each day while I gimp along to catch up on all the duties.
For the past month I have been able to ward off burn out and meltdown no matter how exhausted I was, but now being one handed with an added work load will most likely be my breaking point. I really liked my job, but I'm close to totally hating it now because I am so dang tired and just want to get back to my regular 20 hrs. a week instead of the current 55+.
The optimistic view: I'm right handed, it's the left hand that is useless. This time is just one short period during my entire lifetime and it will pass. The good news: Sis-in-law Jayne is visiting from California for a few days. Marty and I had a nice dinner wth her Saturday at our favorite Japanese restaurant and Sunday spent a few hours here at home visiting and catching up on things. It's always nice to spend time with Jayne because she somehow rejuvenates me. She has an aura that radiates and brings brightness into the world.
This is my current cattitude about work:
Last week I held an interview with Clarabelle. She had no experience in a Vet. setting, but her previous work experience was enough to believe she could do the job duties if trained because it showed the need to multi-task, work without supervision, work quickly and carefully and apply common sense. She has three dogs and four cats of her own so we all figured she wasn't totally ignorant about pet care.
Clarabelle mentioned she had once been bit by a dog, her own dog who has spent the past many months chained in the yard for peeing in the house. She is trying to find a new home for her dog and actually gave him away thirteen times but he was always returned within hours for trying to bite and urinating in the house. So now he gets attention when she "tosses his food to him every day". And "If you know of anyone wanting to adopt a pit bull, let me know".
Yeah right. I'm going to suggest someone adopt a dog with a history of biting.
She also mentioned a cat bite she received that became infected. "Maybe I should have stopped poking at it when I saw it was getting agitated".
During the tour of the hospital, she stuck her hands into each kennel trying to pet the dogs while totally ignoring the cats. Okay, maybe she is more of a dog person, but common sense says don't try to touch strange animals, especially those hallucinating while waking up from anesthesia, The look of distaste on her face when viewing the cats made me wonder why she owned cats. What type of life do her own cats have living with someone who obviously doesn't like cats?
Chaining her dog in the yard and tossing food to him, poking an agitated cat until she is bitten...if that is how she cares for animals she knows, how will she care for client pets? That is a question I had no interest in exploring.
The search for a capable person continues while I still cover Dora's hours. During the next two weeks Katherine is off several days and I will be doing the work of three people while one-handed and pretty much useless. My hours will continue long after the clinic closes each day while I gimp along to catch up on all the duties.
For the past month I have been able to ward off burn out and meltdown no matter how exhausted I was, but now being one handed with an added work load will most likely be my breaking point. I really liked my job, but I'm close to totally hating it now because I am so dang tired and just want to get back to my regular 20 hrs. a week instead of the current 55+.
The optimistic view: I'm right handed, it's the left hand that is useless. This time is just one short period during my entire lifetime and it will pass. The good news: Sis-in-law Jayne is visiting from California for a few days. Marty and I had a nice dinner wth her Saturday at our favorite Japanese restaurant and Sunday spent a few hours here at home visiting and catching up on things. It's always nice to spend time with Jayne because she somehow rejuvenates me. She has an aura that radiates and brings brightness into the world.
This is my current cattitude about work:
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