Job Dislikes

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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Hearing my patients owners life stories that have nothing to do with the health of their pets. And then when they question what they’ve been charged for after they’ve been told. Just happened Friday with an Australian Cattle Dog Mix. With the exception of my family, my best friend and my coworkers, I’m just not a people person. Ugh! My family and the people I work with know I’m not but they tell me I play it off really well lol.

Love me Australian Cattle Dog mixes my parents have one. She's sweet but very sassy.

I do get where you are coming from Cheerful Greek. People just sort of wear me out. Its funny when I was a kid I thought I wanted to be a vet but then when you have to deal with sick and animals that are dying, I knew I couldn't handle that. It would just make me entirely too sad. Which I give major kudos to anyone who enters that field as a whole.

Instead I ended up becoming a nurse. I figured most not all people make their own choices that might lead to poor outcomes. Although I decided while in nursing school being a pediatric nurse wasn't my bag either. I used to joke my favorite patients were the sedated ones. :-)

But my least favorite part as a nurse was the dying. I took care of many a hospice patient, and those deaths you knew were coming at some point. Others, it was a recently diagnosed illness. Strangely when you see people that close to death I think the death process itself is easier on the person who is dying, versus the loved ones left behind. It also made me realize too to be very clear in communicating my wishes should something happen to me and I can't make decisions for myself.

But aside from the sadness and empathy, I worked overnights, I swear people would always die between 2:30-3:30 am. We did hourly rounds when I would see a patient who had passed the first couple of times I'd call in another nurse just to make sure I'm not hearing a heartbeat. One time we were super short staffed so I had to basically get the body in a bag. I swear I was so paranoid that the person was just going to pop up! Had to end on a bit of levity.

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Miscommunication from higher ups. Get all your ducks in a row before you give me a direction so I don’t end up redoing it. And when you come back and change it don’t give me the ultimate mealy mouthed excuse “I’m just following orders.”

The other big dislike: not listening to the boots on the ground. If 4 supervisors and all her team members tell you a person is an idiot, that should be enough to fire her, even if that means one less person on the team. (GC correlation: giving a bid to anything that moves just to get numbers up.)