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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Trying to wrap things up at work and home. I had to ask the CEO to quit calling me a traitor. "Are you going to be mean to me for the next two weeks?" I asked. No, was the answer. But he's kind of mad. I'm having to talk to him to get things properly buttoned up, and he doesn't want to look at me. It's the mindset of the owner of a mom-and-pop, which I swore I'd never work for again, that employees are to be viewed and to view themselves as faithful family retainers. Forget that crap.

My boss and I had lunch out today. There was a woman in the restaurant with a stethoscope around her neck (either pretentious, or she forgot she had it) and her white coat with name tag, etc. OK, I kind of draw the line there. If she's a doctor, then the stethoscope indicates she's been with patients, most likely sick folks. Perhaps they have coughed on her. She had to wear the coat into a restaurant where people were eating? Isn't the purpose of the coat to keep germs and bodily fluids off the doctor's person so they can be left behind at the workplace?

4 comments:

Dell(ms.native) said...

Did you check to see if she still had her scrub shoe covers on? tee hee

ms.native

Tsiporah said...

Sorry their giving you a hard time, but you are doing what is best for you and your family. So boo to them.

total eeeeewwwwww on the doctor.

Laura(southernxyl) said...

Tsiporah, absolutely. If they thought the company would be better off without me, like me or not, they'd cut me loose. They do what's best for the company, I do what's best for me and my family. No-brainer.

I did not look for shoe covers, and if I'd thought of it I would carefully not have looked. Grossed out enough as it was.

CreoleInDC said...

If he knows like me...he'd better turn it around. I mean geez...they hardly gave you a choice right? And this new job is going to be the BEST thing for you...and...you get a new house. YIPPEE!!!!!!!