Work...

Well, I'm kinda on the fence about this whole work thing (at least at the clinic where I'm working right now). They are pretty jacked up and apparently, have been for quite some time. Let me elaborate a bit:

1.) The time clock is 20 minutes fast (actually 22 by my phone). It has been like that for as long as anyone that works there can remember. I asked why don't they fix it? Even after daylight savings time over the years, they keep it 20 minutes off (it's an hour and 20 off right now). Go ahead and see if you can guess why... really. Try and guess. Hopefully you won't come up with the same reasoning they have. It's that way so people aren't late for work... "it gives you 20 more minutes to get to work on time" is what one person told me. And there's a sheet posted in the break room with everyone's break times on it. Of course those times are according to the time clock, not real time. Seriously?! So I'm supposed to go on break at 10:15am, but it's really not till 10:35. Same with lunch and last break... I guess that's like setting your watch ahead 10 minutes so you're never late? If ya know it's fast, you know you have that cushion... all I can say is OMG!

2.) I work in medical records. We don't pull the records for upcoming appointments. All we do is put test results, office visit paperwork, and hospital correspondence in the charts once that information is received. The people that work in the clinic have no clue on how the charts are assembled, so they just throw their paperwork in there and we have to put it in the chart. Also, the charts are all in a couple of separate areas, but the same concept applies. They are on the big shelves that move so you can get to the other aisle, in alphabetical order. Once we get all the paperwork put in the charts, we put them back on the racks where they belong. Simple right? Well, apparently, someone is not too good with the English alphabetical system. I've seen people looking for charts and reciting the alphabet to themselves. No problem... I catch myself saying it (to myself) too every now and then. But here's what irritates me: when someone else creates work for me, I have a problem with that. It took me about 30 minutes (and I was busting my arse) to pull all of the charts with last name beginning with MA off the rack so I could push back the MC section, then put the MA charts in front of them. Someone thought MC comes before MA? And how long has it been like that?

Other than that, things aren't too bad there. I don't like standing up all day. The area where the medical records people work from is a 20 foot hallway with a bunch of cubby holes like a built-in bookcase in a house. We use the cubbies and it's nice, but there is alot of crap thrown in them and it generally looks like poop. We have no office, no desks, and we have 2 "computers" to look up patient info on. Why do I put quotation marks around "computers", you ask? One of them is a Windows-based, FAIRLY modern model. The other has about a 9 inch monitor, green screen like the old Commodore 64 in the mid 80's and no mouse. You have to use the function keys and some weird commands. I don't even like the old Windows computer we can use... I SURE don't care for that old fossil that is worth more as a collectors item than it is as an actual working system.

Well, that's it for today... Oh yeah! I almost forgot. Today was my first payday there. Had 48 hours on the check. I just did the paperwork for withholding taxes and such last week so how wrong could payroll have it screwed up? Hmmm... let's see. FITW: 2 exemptions, State: 2 also. How much taxes taken from my check? State looked okay, but federal? Let's go with zero. Are you kidding?

Well, time to crash... it's been a long week. Sandra and I are both worn out.