My Guy was Kissing my Friend!

I worked for four hours Sunday. As I was starting the car and getting ready to leave the house, my phone rang. I figured it was my boss wanting to know where I was. He had wanted me in a bit early. The sinus congestion and chest cold thing were not cooperative with his agenda.

It was actually the guy. He wanted to know when I was coming to work. I told him I was just pulling out from the house. He was calling because he had a patient on an outing and the pump for the tube feeding was dead. omg! I love my staff! I'm the one they always seem to call... whether I'm there or not... LOL

Joni was at work when I got there. She told me she had the funniest thing to tell me. I was just about to get started doing some actual work (as the Sunday afternoon concert was finally over) so we headed out for a quick smoke.

She told me that she hadn't been feeling well Saturday due to an upset stomach and had told one of the staff to give her a kiss to make her feel better. He had blown her a kiss from across the room. So, she then turned to my boyfriend and told him to give her a kiss to make her feel better. He kissed her on the cheek. Now, she knows he's my boyfriend. He doesn't know that she knows.

After he kissed her on the cheek, she told me that one of the other staff commented that she didn't feel well because she probably was pregnant. She directed my boyfriend to tell the other staff member why it was impossible for her to be pregnant.

His response, "She don't like da-ting, man."

omg! Joni, Judi, Hannah, and I rolled!

I could just hear him saying that...

So, my guy kissed my lesbian friend...

He has asked me about her. If she has ever had boyfriends, etc. He's never asked if there has ever been anything between her and me, and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the thoughts of a three-some were partial motivation for some of his questioning. From some things she said about him, before she found out he was my boyfriend, and when I told her about his questions, she probably wouldn't nix the idea. Let me say that at her birthday party, my boyfriend was the guy that both the women and the men wanted.

He's young AND sexy. Go me!! LOL

And he is so very sweet and considerate and thoughtful.

I'm going to apply for a cardiology position at the VA Clinic. I love cardiology and have the experience to do the job well. Coworkers and friends have been very encouraging towards this position of the three or four that I found this week that I had some interest in.

The industrial nursing position at the steel mill. Not a bad work schedule or work requirement but some of the potential for mangling and injury that I could possibly encounter. Oh, not pretty. There was a full-time second-shift hospice position at the hospital that's right out my back door. You know, I love hospice, but I just don't know that I could do it full-time, week in and week out. It's hard. Very rewarding, but very hard. There's a part-time and contingent second-shift position at one of the assisted living complexes. Not a bad gig. There was also a home health position that didn't sound too bad.

So, that's the job search round-up for the week.

The VA position is good because it's cardiology, and bad & good because it's the VA. I'm just not the blind-obedience, don't make waves sort of person that the VA would really embrace. I took an oath to always act in the best interest of my patients...

Thus my motto.... Rule By Subterfuge!

LMAO

The guy was more than a little miffed about my change to contingent status when I ran-down all the details and factors that led to my change from part-time (with benefits) to contingent (without benefits or increase in pay). He has cast his vote in favor of the VA position as being the one I should give top preference. He has gone so far as to suggest that I just leave altogether and not even bother to continue contingent employment after getting all the info. As he said, he realizes how much my patients mean to me, but I need to consider myself and my health first. And, with why and how things were done, he feels that I have been shown grave disloyalty and should have no regrets in saying goodbye and moving on to other things, irrespective of how I may feel toward the people I serve.

Being that he has worked for this very same company for over three years now and has seen exactly how things are done, he has some very valid points to present in making the recommendations regarding continued employment that he has made. He has only been there as long as he has due to the fact that his weekend work schedule allows him full-time pay and the opportunity to attend school full-time during the week. He is not the only one for whom that statement is reality. I would say that would be the scenario for well over half of the weekend employees, both staff and nursing.

I should get ready to head to bed.

Things to do tomorrow!