So it's been a month. Things have slightly settled down at the new job, and by slightly, I mean I've changed my attitude to salvage my sanity. My staff consist of about 4 really good and 10 really bad/stupid people. My boss has proven to be a moron, no surprise as she is in administration. She likes to micro manage and that pisses me off and keeps me from being efficient when she's got her hands in everything.
And meetings, can we please talk about how much I LOATHE meetings. Why so many? Why so long? Why am I involved in meetings that have nothing to do with me or my staff? Why do people make things so difficult during meetings, therefore spawning a follow up meeting to those issues? And why is there NEVER resolution to any meeting? It just gets put off til the next meeting then forgotten about only to resurface at some other meeting that is completely off topic.
All and all this is a clusterfuck and a lot of work, but I believe they have chosen the right person to assist them in getting their shit together. Now if I can just get rid of the stupid ones.......
MJ
Monday, October 04, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
New Job Suckage
Ah, the old saying, incompetence rules is back on high rotation in my vocabulary. So I took this management job, which, as presented to me, would be a really good fit for my skills and interests, albeit ALOT of work. For that I was prepared, for what is reality, I was/am not.
Let's start with my first three days, overwhelming of course. The guy that is orienting me, "until you feel comfortable" as I was told by HR, is a complete moron. He works part-time so he's only there to "orient" me 3 days/week. Day one was exhausting but I was anticipating that. Day 2 he's not around so I just kind of lay low, attend some bullshit meetings, shuffle papers, walk around to get to know the facility, etc. Day 3 he's back and running around like a chicken with no head. We sit in a meeting in which any question asked to him he responds with "Uh, I don't know," or "Uh, I really didn't ask." So, he's an idiot.
The weekend is here and I'm happy. It's labor day weekend, and I don't get labor day off because as a new employee you get no paid holidays for the first 3 months, I can dig. So I go in Monday and I'm the only manager there, meaning I'm in charge. I am sitting in my office (hiding) and hoping no one dies, chokes, falls, seizes, escapes, etc on my clock. Then I hear the door alarm buzzing for like 5 minutes and a scuffle of sorts. I come out to see an 80 something year old lady trying to make a break for it as my staff is trying to physically pull said woman back into the adult day care. Using my psych skills, I tell the staff member to let go (I mean, the lady is in her 80's, you can't just grab her and try to force her back inside, you might dislocate her shoulder or cause her to fall and break a god damn hip a.k.a. "the death break" and that shit is NOT happening on my watch). I talk to the old lady, ask her some easy yes/no questions and convince her to come sit with me and do a puzzle, she agrees. I have the staff call the family to come get her the fuck out of here. All is well and I leave for the day.
The rest of the week sucks because of the following: I am short staffed due to a medical emergency, a false alarm conversion of a negative to positive TB test comes up, NO managers are there the entire week because they are at a training, and my "orienter" doesn't come in but one day, the day that I am in facility orientation all day. By Thursday idiot orienter sends me a "to do" list via email, half of which I did, the other half were adminstrative tasks like budgeting, ordering supplies, moving programs, none of which I thought were realistic seeing that I had been there for one week and one day. I email him to let him know this. We go back and forth with email banter, all cc'd to my boss, who again isn't around because she is at a training. I finally call him, try to have a professional conversation with him, until he becomes condescending and rude to me, at which time I tell him he is being unreasonable, irresponsible, and I can no longer discuss this matter with him. He says "FINE" and I hang up on him. I left pissed and on Friday I muddled my way through yet another day.
Week 2: My boss sits down with idiot and I and tells idiot that he has to give me more guidance, he needs to continue doing administrative tasks while I get to know the residents, my staff, how the facility works, then lastly, her expectations of me. She tells idiot that I have three months to get up and running. I feel better for now. I go in on Tuesday feeling pretty good, things run smoothly. Wed the idiot is back and we're back to running around all day not really getting anything done except for washing the facility van. That's when idiot notices damage to the van that was not reported. Instead of going straight to our boss to report it, he tells me to do it in the meeting tomorrow.
So tomorrow comes, and I bring up the damages, and I'm left with her being pissed off. She talks to me as if I already know how this all works and who the drivers were. She makes me write up two employees for damages not reported. I think this is wrong, seeing that the damages likely happened before I started working, and may not have been from either employee. She says do it so I think about it for a few hours. I also have to deal with two separate medical type issues, so I email idiot for guidance, he directs me one way, I talk w/ families they are pissed, then my boss says "NO NO NO that's not the way to do it." So I have second conversation with families who are now even more pissed. It's the end of the day, I'm tired, so I wait until Friday to write up the employees.
Friday comes, I write up both employees and one is pissed. Rightfully so. I still don't think it's fair and I tell him that. Two hours later, my boss and the maintenance guy approach me to let me know the damage happened over a year ago. Great. I say to her, well I just wrote two of my staff up per your direction. She says again it's old damage and "that poor van" then walks away. So I say fuck this I go tell both employees the situation and shred their write ups because that shit is humbug. They are happy with that and understanding. I'm pissed. I try to go to my boss to see if there are some policy/procedures I can look at so I can follow and not make mistakes w/ families or staff members to which she answers "what procedures?" Really? So I tell her I'd like to put some in place so all of the things that have come up in the mere two weeks I've been working there, don't come up, and if they do, everyone in the facility is on the same page as to how to proceed. She agrees, but then back tracks and says to ask idiot and I tell her no, that he's not very helpful. So she tells me to consult with the medical director or "just call other places and see how they do it." Wow, I am working at UH all over again.
So I go to my office, start making a list of policies and procedures that I will begin working on ASAP to avoid any future confusion, despite the direction of my boss. As I can already see she too is an idiot. The idiot orienting me likes my thinking and agrees that I should put these safeguards in place, thanks for the validation idiot. By the end of the day, the idiot comes back from a meeting with our boss and says to me "She really wants me to get going on my other project so I'm not sure how long I'm going to be able to help you." I was feeling good about getting my part of the facility into shape until he said that. Remember, the beginning of the week she tells me I have three months to learn everything. Any guidance I've gotten from either of the two have been conflicting, causing me to run around and contradict everything I've first done/said. Now this.
Needless to say I left about a half hour early because I was pissed at all the disorganization, confusion, poor guidance, and now a blatant lie by my boss. Fucking UH all over again. Today I will be calling my former employer (the pediatric job), and asking if my position has been filled, and if not, I'd like to come back. If I am able to return to the previous job, I will give same day resignation tomorrow. Fuck this.
MJ
Let's start with my first three days, overwhelming of course. The guy that is orienting me, "until you feel comfortable" as I was told by HR, is a complete moron. He works part-time so he's only there to "orient" me 3 days/week. Day one was exhausting but I was anticipating that. Day 2 he's not around so I just kind of lay low, attend some bullshit meetings, shuffle papers, walk around to get to know the facility, etc. Day 3 he's back and running around like a chicken with no head. We sit in a meeting in which any question asked to him he responds with "Uh, I don't know," or "Uh, I really didn't ask." So, he's an idiot.
The weekend is here and I'm happy. It's labor day weekend, and I don't get labor day off because as a new employee you get no paid holidays for the first 3 months, I can dig. So I go in Monday and I'm the only manager there, meaning I'm in charge. I am sitting in my office (hiding) and hoping no one dies, chokes, falls, seizes, escapes, etc on my clock. Then I hear the door alarm buzzing for like 5 minutes and a scuffle of sorts. I come out to see an 80 something year old lady trying to make a break for it as my staff is trying to physically pull said woman back into the adult day care. Using my psych skills, I tell the staff member to let go (I mean, the lady is in her 80's, you can't just grab her and try to force her back inside, you might dislocate her shoulder or cause her to fall and break a god damn hip a.k.a. "the death break" and that shit is NOT happening on my watch). I talk to the old lady, ask her some easy yes/no questions and convince her to come sit with me and do a puzzle, she agrees. I have the staff call the family to come get her the fuck out of here. All is well and I leave for the day.
The rest of the week sucks because of the following: I am short staffed due to a medical emergency, a false alarm conversion of a negative to positive TB test comes up, NO managers are there the entire week because they are at a training, and my "orienter" doesn't come in but one day, the day that I am in facility orientation all day. By Thursday idiot orienter sends me a "to do" list via email, half of which I did, the other half were adminstrative tasks like budgeting, ordering supplies, moving programs, none of which I thought were realistic seeing that I had been there for one week and one day. I email him to let him know this. We go back and forth with email banter, all cc'd to my boss, who again isn't around because she is at a training. I finally call him, try to have a professional conversation with him, until he becomes condescending and rude to me, at which time I tell him he is being unreasonable, irresponsible, and I can no longer discuss this matter with him. He says "FINE" and I hang up on him. I left pissed and on Friday I muddled my way through yet another day.
Week 2: My boss sits down with idiot and I and tells idiot that he has to give me more guidance, he needs to continue doing administrative tasks while I get to know the residents, my staff, how the facility works, then lastly, her expectations of me. She tells idiot that I have three months to get up and running. I feel better for now. I go in on Tuesday feeling pretty good, things run smoothly. Wed the idiot is back and we're back to running around all day not really getting anything done except for washing the facility van. That's when idiot notices damage to the van that was not reported. Instead of going straight to our boss to report it, he tells me to do it in the meeting tomorrow.
So tomorrow comes, and I bring up the damages, and I'm left with her being pissed off. She talks to me as if I already know how this all works and who the drivers were. She makes me write up two employees for damages not reported. I think this is wrong, seeing that the damages likely happened before I started working, and may not have been from either employee. She says do it so I think about it for a few hours. I also have to deal with two separate medical type issues, so I email idiot for guidance, he directs me one way, I talk w/ families they are pissed, then my boss says "NO NO NO that's not the way to do it." So I have second conversation with families who are now even more pissed. It's the end of the day, I'm tired, so I wait until Friday to write up the employees.
Friday comes, I write up both employees and one is pissed. Rightfully so. I still don't think it's fair and I tell him that. Two hours later, my boss and the maintenance guy approach me to let me know the damage happened over a year ago. Great. I say to her, well I just wrote two of my staff up per your direction. She says again it's old damage and "that poor van" then walks away. So I say fuck this I go tell both employees the situation and shred their write ups because that shit is humbug. They are happy with that and understanding. I'm pissed. I try to go to my boss to see if there are some policy/procedures I can look at so I can follow and not make mistakes w/ families or staff members to which she answers "what procedures?" Really? So I tell her I'd like to put some in place so all of the things that have come up in the mere two weeks I've been working there, don't come up, and if they do, everyone in the facility is on the same page as to how to proceed. She agrees, but then back tracks and says to ask idiot and I tell her no, that he's not very helpful. So she tells me to consult with the medical director or "just call other places and see how they do it." Wow, I am working at UH all over again.
So I go to my office, start making a list of policies and procedures that I will begin working on ASAP to avoid any future confusion, despite the direction of my boss. As I can already see she too is an idiot. The idiot orienting me likes my thinking and agrees that I should put these safeguards in place, thanks for the validation idiot. By the end of the day, the idiot comes back from a meeting with our boss and says to me "She really wants me to get going on my other project so I'm not sure how long I'm going to be able to help you." I was feeling good about getting my part of the facility into shape until he said that. Remember, the beginning of the week she tells me I have three months to learn everything. Any guidance I've gotten from either of the two have been conflicting, causing me to run around and contradict everything I've first done/said. Now this.
Needless to say I left about a half hour early because I was pissed at all the disorganization, confusion, poor guidance, and now a blatant lie by my boss. Fucking UH all over again. Today I will be calling my former employer (the pediatric job), and asking if my position has been filled, and if not, I'd like to come back. If I am able to return to the previous job, I will give same day resignation tomorrow. Fuck this.
MJ
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Aloha Spirit
As I found a mint parking spot in Chinatown this evening, it was a very tight spot between a brand new Lexus and a Toyota (it's Chinatown man), a very pleasant female Chinese barber came out to guide me into the spot. I thought she was coming out to tell me not to park, so I glanced at the sign to make sure and asked, "it's okay to park here, yeah?" You see, here in Hawaii the word "yeah" is used very frequently, and mostly at the end of sentences as if asking a question. She said in reply "yeah yeah" then proceeded to wave me back with comb in hand to assist my park job.
Upon leaving Chinatown at night, a much different place might I add, many "chronics" and "lo lo's" a.k.a. homeless and mentally ill individuals, roam the streets. As I am trying to pull out of aforementioned tight spot, still with Lexus behind and Toyota in front, a local lo lo pushes his shopping cart to the side and directs me to back up and yells for me to cut the wheel as appropriate. Needless to say his direction was spot on, despite any substances he may have ingested, and I was able to maneuver out of the spot unscathed. I threw him the shaka and yelled "thanks brah" (another local term short for braddah) and he replied, "No problem girl," and threw the shaka back to me.
That my friends, is Aloha Spirit.
One Love,
MJ
Upon leaving Chinatown at night, a much different place might I add, many "chronics" and "lo lo's" a.k.a. homeless and mentally ill individuals, roam the streets. As I am trying to pull out of aforementioned tight spot, still with Lexus behind and Toyota in front, a local lo lo pushes his shopping cart to the side and directs me to back up and yells for me to cut the wheel as appropriate. Needless to say his direction was spot on, despite any substances he may have ingested, and I was able to maneuver out of the spot unscathed. I threw him the shaka and yelled "thanks brah" (another local term short for braddah) and he replied, "No problem girl," and threw the shaka back to me.
That my friends, is Aloha Spirit.
One Love,
MJ
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Reflections
I was reviewing my blog looking for this exact quote/rant regarding new work opportunities I would embark on upon my move. The quote/rant is as follows, "I will do my job half-assed, give two flying fucks about being productive and/or efficient, ignore emails and voice mails, make impulsive decisions with the least amount of judgement as possible, give two shits in the wind regarding any and all safety procedures, take an ample amount of days off, plead ignorance at every opportunity all the while keeping a bright and sunny disposition, and make my way into administration within a year of employment."
Ok seriously, this has just come true. Today I accepted a position in management. Fucking A.
MJ
Ok seriously, this has just come true. Today I accepted a position in management. Fucking A.
MJ
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
"Peace Begins In The Womb"
So we're driving to the water park yesterday to celebrate the man's birthday (yes there is a water park in Hawaii and yes we went because going to the beach everyday can get tiring...wah wah). We're stopped at a light and some lady pulls up next to the Jeep and says, "Excuse me, peace begins in the womb." I just look at her like the nut she is and give a wave, thinking she's just some religious kook spreading the lord's word. The man waves and says, "Thank-you." She goes on to say, "I don't like that one about Bush," in reference to my WTF sticker and the man cleverly responds with "Well we feel pretty strongly about that," again I wave and nod in effort to not scream "WTF is wrong with you you batshit crazy right-winger?" She goes on to say, "At least he was pro-life." Again I give the wave as she pulls off, the back of her beater Honda covered with pro-life and W04 bumper stickers. Seriously scary that these people live amongst us, yet humours to experience.
MJ
MJ
Monday, May 24, 2010
Hello Bloggers....
It's been a while, and yet again I will say that it is extremely difficult to blog here in Hawaii. Why you ask? Because the sun shines everyday and I don't have to be all cooped up in the house due to shit weather. I digress.
I had a few sightings of little people the other night, my first here in this great state, I say HKJ was roaming the streets of Chinatown in Honolulu Friday night. I first spotted a midget getting out of her land yacht in a parking lot, I was driving around looking for parking myself, making it impossible to photograph and/or touch said midget. Upon parking and exiting the garage lie before me another little person. I pretended to take a picture of her dog as she sat in her male companion's lap. And here she is.....
I was excited to see not one, but two midgets within thirty minutes and a block of each other. I continued on my journey through the streets of Chinatown to a little art studio that was performing an "experimental" piece about women's rights, sex, violence, addiction, etc. Weird at times, repetitive at others, but overall not a bad show. Before leaving the studio, the pictured midget was sitting at the bar, I almost shat, Dr. J was following me. My male friend was kind enought to cleverly crowd me upon exting the building so that I couldn't help but bump into her, making full contact to her left arm/shoulder. Now, I don't think Hawaii has the lottery here, but the locals love Vegas so I signed up at a chance to win a free trip. Maybe said midget will bring me luck in that realm.
My last picture has nothing to do with midgets. I just thought it was a funny sighting. I was on my lunch break at the hospital, so I walked down to this Hawaiian music/book festival to browse around and eat. As I was walking the grounds, this passed me by.....
All I can say is What The Fuck? I didn't know the grim reaper rode a scooter. And who wears that many clothes, black at that, in Honolulu? I'm glad he did not touch me, for I would not be blogging.
Until next time....
MJ
I had a few sightings of little people the other night, my first here in this great state, I say HKJ was roaming the streets of Chinatown in Honolulu Friday night. I first spotted a midget getting out of her land yacht in a parking lot, I was driving around looking for parking myself, making it impossible to photograph and/or touch said midget. Upon parking and exiting the garage lie before me another little person. I pretended to take a picture of her dog as she sat in her male companion's lap. And here she is.....
I was excited to see not one, but two midgets within thirty minutes and a block of each other. I continued on my journey through the streets of Chinatown to a little art studio that was performing an "experimental" piece about women's rights, sex, violence, addiction, etc. Weird at times, repetitive at others, but overall not a bad show. Before leaving the studio, the pictured midget was sitting at the bar, I almost shat, Dr. J was following me. My male friend was kind enought to cleverly crowd me upon exting the building so that I couldn't help but bump into her, making full contact to her left arm/shoulder. Now, I don't think Hawaii has the lottery here, but the locals love Vegas so I signed up at a chance to win a free trip. Maybe said midget will bring me luck in that realm.
My last picture has nothing to do with midgets. I just thought it was a funny sighting. I was on my lunch break at the hospital, so I walked down to this Hawaiian music/book festival to browse around and eat. As I was walking the grounds, this passed me by.....
All I can say is What The Fuck? I didn't know the grim reaper rode a scooter. And who wears that many clothes, black at that, in Honolulu? I'm glad he did not touch me, for I would not be blogging.
Until next time....
MJ
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Catching Up
Whew, blogging is hard in Hawaii! Anyhow, a quick update for the readers. It's still sunny and 80 everyday, give or take a few degrees. Seeing that it's winter, it gets down to the mid 60's at night. I now consider this "cold" and am wearing sweatpants and along sleeved t-shirt as I type. I'm catching up on The Wire, rocking the 4th season & enjoying it. Gotta love public libraries, although rentals are a dollar here, wah wah.
I've started working again, been orienting to the job for the last three weeks, am covering someones vacation for the next two weeks, then will go down to part-time, which is a good thing. This job is boring & not what I would like to be doing, but it's a starting point. I'd much rather be surrounded by crazy people that are not physically sick or medically fragile. Instead I get to look at gravity succumbed tits, asses, and scrotums of the 60 and over crowd. Wowza. Nothing like watching and helping a naked 74 year old Hawaiian born Chinese lady shower as she tells me that "Punani" is the Hawaiian word for "vagina" and that "shi shi" means "pee pee" in this great state. I'm sore when I get home from trying to help decrepit ass old heads transfer from various surfaces and dress themselves. I'm in it for the paycheck and the benefits people, and that's it.
Otherwise, Hawaii is wonderful. I'm looking forward to my part-time schedule so I can get back out and play.
One Love,
Medusa J
I've started working again, been orienting to the job for the last three weeks, am covering someones vacation for the next two weeks, then will go down to part-time, which is a good thing. This job is boring & not what I would like to be doing, but it's a starting point. I'd much rather be surrounded by crazy people that are not physically sick or medically fragile. Instead I get to look at gravity succumbed tits, asses, and scrotums of the 60 and over crowd. Wowza. Nothing like watching and helping a naked 74 year old Hawaiian born Chinese lady shower as she tells me that "Punani" is the Hawaiian word for "vagina" and that "shi shi" means "pee pee" in this great state. I'm sore when I get home from trying to help decrepit ass old heads transfer from various surfaces and dress themselves. I'm in it for the paycheck and the benefits people, and that's it.
Otherwise, Hawaii is wonderful. I'm looking forward to my part-time schedule so I can get back out and play.
One Love,
Medusa J
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Aloha The Bus
If there are any readers left, do I have something special for you! I've been enjoying life on an island and haven't felt too inspired to write much, mostly because being inside is not something I do a lot of anymore. I've recently gotten back into the work force and am exploring Oahu's public transportation system, The Bus. It's quite good, gets me to work in less time/stress than driving, get to observe some characters, and feel what it's like to be a minority for the first time in my life. For the most part, it feels no different, I am still Medusa Jones, but I am aware for the first time ever. I've always felt that we are all on race, human, and we're all here together so we should treat each other with respect. Well my friends, let me get to the point of this blog posting. The mullet is apparently the hairstyle of the state of Hawaii and I laid eyes on the wildest mullet I've ever seen. Mahalo to this native for making my day.
MJ
MJ
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