I've thought of being a phlebotomist. I like puncturing things. I'll look into it some more.
My company is being audited. I was never trained on how to do some of the paperwork and was just told to copy some of the other paperwork. I transfered from another one of the companies offices that doesn't have to abide my the same standards. Turns out some of the stuff I was copying was wrong so I had to re-do lots. I got all caught up though, at least I thought. Our QI person went through some paperwork that I had approved and signed off on and decided she thought it should be done differently. Fine. Whatever. I'll do it. I come in on Wednesday. It's Halloween. We had a lunch time party. I didn't want to go. I had some work to do for my other job and thought I'd do that as well as re-do that other paperwork, but I didn't want to be rude. Our receptionist goes to lots of trouble for these things so I went. I won most clever costume (I wore a pumpkin colored shirt with the pi symbol, it was more lazy than clever, but whatever). Then the big boss (my bosses boss) says he's going to give out Target cards to everyone who has their paperwork perfect. I knew I wasn't going to get one. That's okay, I'm a big girl. He walks around the room and hands one out to everyone (I thought, oh, this is a little embarrassing, but oh well), then he comes to me, and he proceeded to shame me in front of the whole groups for 2 minutes. I should have known better, what have I been doing? Don't I take this seriously? He then says that there are 3 others who aren't caught up (lucky them they didn't come). It was awkward. I know my face was bright red from anger, but mostly embarrassment. The QI person ended up leaving because she was upset and felt it was inappropriate. 3 other people come up to me and tell me how inappropriate my boss was. I didn't want to cause more drama, so I just said it was an uncomfortable experience for me. I wanted to cry, but I had work to do so just did some deep breathing and tried to move on. My boss then comes to my door, says, something about how he didn't mean to be rude BUT... and then proceeds to tell me what a loser I am. That was enough. I was thinking of a million snarky things to say, but I kept thinking "I need this job," to get him to stop I finally said, "We have two very different communication styles." It was the only thing I could think to say that wasn't passive aggressive or just flat out aggressive.
If I didn't care, if I hadn't tried to fix things, then I wouldn't be too upset, but I've really worked very hard. Much of my time has been uncompensated. This is my sign to make an exit, but I can't go without another job. So I'll keep looking and try to keep my head down.
This summer I took a leave of absences for depression. I feel ever since that this supervisor has been treating me like I'm not really part of the work force. In terms of billing I'm one of the top nonsalaried employees. The client's like me. I've given my time to help new employees. I just think it's time to look for something else.
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