How Do You Really Spell “DiarF3″?
Posted by Jen, under I don't mind workI’m moving jobs, I think, the last week of February, which kind of sucks because it’s my birthday week and I may not get all the gifts I deserve. No, I don’t spend a very long time making sure I’m nice to people prior to birthday week to ensure gifts are plentiful. What? Anyhoo, that’s neither here nor there!
My new job. I have the roughest of rough ideas of what I’ll be doing, but the girl who is leaving is either a) not actually leaving by choice or b) just horrendously slack. I’m actually thinking the reason is both options! I asked her manager what it is that she actually does and the reply was “you tell me”, because clearly I’m going to know. I took that as a bad sign. So, I asked one of the people she works for what she does* and their response was along the lines of “not much”…oh great, am I going to be bored to death here??
So, I emailed a friend of mine who works in the same office as my new job (which is fabulously convenient because at least I’ll be near someone I know), to ask if she has any idea what the girl I will be taking over from does. Her reply:
Her work varies from:
- Organising children’s parties including going out and buying all the pressies, arranging the ward parties and organising all entertainment for this. Last one I remember they hired a balloon making person! L also attends most parties (work time of course) .
- She does a lot of chatting.
- She arranges day trips to fun places. I’m not even sure where this fits in to work.
- A tonne of wondering around
- She basically has someone to answer her phone, oh, that would be me!! I have noticed it’s not in my job description though. Strange.
- Looking at results on the computer and explaining them to the parents, oh wait, is this not against hospital policy?
- Organising all aspects of any functions. I don’t even know what this means. But she told me that’s what she does.
- Designing forms and signs etc on an “ad-hoc basis”.
- Urmm. I noticed she was writing out xmas cards from the CT to their children’s families.
- She also organised 2 trips to the fair in the summer. These, of course, have to happen on work days, and she says it’s compulsory she attends…with her children….for free.
There are probably things I don’t notice but most of the above she does on a regular basis. It appears to be quite a fun job, I think you would enjoy it. Maybe I’m just saying that to get you up here and to get her out? But maybe I’m not.
Part of me is thinking “woo hoo, and easy job that sounds fun and I’ll be getting paid more for the pleasure” then the other part is thinking “holy crap, I’m going to die of boredom”.
I think I’ve decided the worst bit is the birthday week clash though!
On a side-note: Seriously, how much do I sound like my mom these days? Not that you know what the lady who thinks she’s still in charge of me sounds like. But she says things like “that’s neither her nor there” and “what are those roughians** doing outside the house” and “you’d better buck your ideas up”, in that order of course. Wow, I really need to go back to being young, using bad punctuation and spitting, even though I never spat. What? I could do it. Maybe.
*I know what the job is, but I like to get a feel of how it’s already done etc. I’m not going in to this 100% blind!
**I don’t know how you spell this. Neither does my spell check – it’s full of words like “diarrhoea”, because I totally don’t know how to spell diarrhoea, well I do, but my version is “diarF3” (that’s the F3 key by the way, I don’t literally type “diarF3”.
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