Annoy

One room. ONE fucking room. Four cases. And I expected to be called off.

Nope.

Had to go in and... clean. Admittedly the staff cleaning, around sterile supplies and delicate equipment, not safe to even consider assigning to the untrained housekeeping staff, which had not been done the previous quarter due to the relentless schedule, staff leaving, quitting, getting sick and injured, needed doing.

It's been a rough few months.

We all leaned toward this slack week like flowers toward the sun.

Some were offered a shift from Friday over to Wednesday, and some stayed very late Wednesday.

I just wanted to be called off Friday.


We cleaned like demons this morning, I gave the one person actually circulating a proper break and lunch, and we all swarmed in to turn over. And we did all the cleaning assignments. All.

One of the scrubs was ok with staying til the end, I really wanted to leave, no one excited about it.

The charge nurse couldn't believe we'd done all the cleaning, as in she questioned our work. Then when I expressed the preference to leave, she got snippy about how SHE gave up HER time off to cover, and SHE was there doing work. Well, fine, but I don't play martyr, I did not say out loud. I repeated that I merely expressed a preference. When the scrub agreed to be the one to stay, and I told Charge, she again ragged at me "Well, I expect you to stay at least until the last patient is in the room!"

I was speechless. Finally, "Of course I was going to stay until I'm done with what I'm doing."

Christallfuckingmighty.

I stayed to help the other nurse with her project. I made sure the last room was fine.

Fuck her sideways.

I don't slack at work. I could have called in sick, and fuck them all, but I haven't called in sick in about a year.


This sort of cleaning annoys me, makes me grumpy, it's too much like Army busy work. I hate it. So I do it fast to get it over with.