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Showing Original Post only (View all)Well, it's official: I've submitted applications to work somewhere else. [View all]
The revolving door for medical providers at the mainstream clinic has just put too much pressure on me to see every patient sent over from the shockingly understaffed main facility. I had twenty-seven patients on my schedule when I started the day yesterday, and even though I had a few no-shows, it seems like two or three walk-ins and stand-bys showed up for every no-show.
I had a monster headache for most of the day. I'm fortunate to have such a superb medical team who kept things going smoothly until closing. The day when they find me slumped over my desk dead seems to be getting closer and closer. The clinic I applied to is in the same part of town where I work now, so all of my patients who want to can visit me there, assuming I get the position. That's the one thing that has kept me here this long: I don't want to abandon my homeless patients.
Anyway, this country needs to get out of the mindset that good work should be rewarded with more work. The pathetic, bleating whine of workplaces bosses everywhere: "Nobody wants to work anymore", is just a bad-faith expression meaning "Nobody wants to work themselves to death anymore."
You're damned right...