Cafe Entre Amis

A little more Sebastian...

It was a long day. My lungs were being uncooperative. So I was having a time of it trying to breathe. Me and the other lady who just got back from having Covid teamed up on the rooms towards the end. One more day.
 
🍷 having a drink & winding down before bed with a relaxing little game called unpacking. covid is making the rounds in house again at work. yippee. 😒

we had a fella hired to start last week and he never showed up for orientation. i think it's awful that a person would waste other people's time and money to do the interviews and get everything made and ready to go for them just to have them ditch.

weather was cooler today. still humid and hot at work though.
 
for some reason people still do not seem to understand that the covid vaccines were never designed to keep us from getting covid. i don't know why people have such a time understanding that. anyway, i found an online article about breakthrough infections among vaccinated people. good read.

What doctors wish patients knew about breakthrough COVID infections​

"Some fully vaccinated people—and those who have received boosters—have acquired SARS-CoV-2 and developed COVID-19. That is expected. One Mayo Clinic intensivist explains what to know about COVID-19 vaccination, boosters and breakthrough infections."

have a look for yourself...
full story
i don't know if the breakthrough infections are happening because people aren't continuing to take precautions or if they're happening despite it. what i've been hearing at work is that it is beginning to settle down to more of a common cold like status which is how they had thought it would trend. you can still get really sick and die from it, though. i think it depends on other health issues you have. i am still staying at home and only go out if i have to. however, with this new omicron variant i am going back to curbside pickup for groceries again. i think people who are still practicing some common sense are going to fare better in the long run.
 
feeling a little under the weather. we have a lot of staff out with covid so i'm hoping that's not what is making me feel creepy. the symptoms have varied so much from one person to the next it's impossible to tell. this last batch of home tests i got were screwed up so you could barely read the cartridge line. if i don't feel better in a couple days i may go to urgent care and have them test me. i'm off to bed.
 
we've had quite a bit of rain the past few days and it's really sticky outside which i'm sure is creating mold which is making me feel like crap. although with this new omicron variant nausea and congestion are some of the symptoms for some people. i had to break out the sudafed you have to sign for at the pharmacy. the pe wasn't cutting it. they have these 12 hr. extended release ones that don't do too bad. plus i started taking my estrodial again cuz sometimes if my hormones are out of whack i feel icky.

i am praying we won't be overwhelmed with checkouts the next couple days. there's only going to be 2 of us some days so it's gonna be tough. they had hired a 3rd checkout person but he never showed up for orientation so we're gonna be short a little while longer. there's been no applicants. the government needs to do something to force these folks back into the workforce instead of letting them stay home and collect unemployment forever. those of us who are working can't keep doing this forever. we need those people to come back out and get jobs. there's plenty to be had.

having my coffee and doing my breathing treatment before getting ready for work. i don't mind these new hours of 3-11:30. once in a while the possum is running around outside looking for food when i get home but he generally runs the other way when i pull up. as long as i don't find him on the porch some night we're good. lol!
 
:coffee: TGIF! Last day of work this week. Planning on sleeping when needed and ordering take out to be delivered. Also plan to play video games and possibly start going through my closet to get rid of things
I don't need anymore. I may have to see about getting some boxes from work for the stuff.

It hasn't been as hot temp wise but, the humidity has been a bugger. I was cleaning a room last night that the blinds were broken in and it was 81° in there. I couldn't wait to be done with that room.

Not much going on. Just sitting here relaxing and having my coffee before work. Going to go read the newspaper too. What are your plans for the weekend?
 
:coffee: Afternoon. It turns out we are going to be shorthanded for some time to come I guess. So I have to make a decision on whether to stay or start looking for something else. If I stay I will be subjected to working with only 2 of us to clean all the checkouts in the whole hospital on a regular basis. When it's just me and the Filipino lady I will be forced to take care of Labor and Delivery on my own and go to the Behavioral Unit since she can't manage to find her way there. The language barrier is so bad that neither of us understands each other which makes it damn near impossible to communicate with her. When there's just two of us we can't clean properly. I don't like that either. I find it very troubling. If I go work in a nursing home as a housekeeper then I gotta deal with being tested for Covid twice a week and frankly I don't think my sinuses can withstand that. I don't want to work somewhere where I don't have the option of whether or not I can wear my mask if I want to either. So I don't know. None of these places here have very good work reviews.

My weekend is over and it's time to get back to it. Next week we have HFAP coming to survey the hospital. They're a federal accreditation group of surveyors for critical care hospitals. Depending on what they find will depend on how many days they're here and whether they come back the following year or in 3 yrs.

Well have a good day!
 
MarciKS said:
:coffee: Afternoon. It turns out we are going to be shorthanded for some time to come I guess. So I have to make a decision on whether to stay or start looking for something else. If I stay I will be subjected to working with only 2 of us to clean all the checkouts in the whole hospital on a regular basis. When it's just me and the Filipino lady I will be forced to take care of Labor and Delivery on my own and go to the Behavioral Unit since she can't manage to find her way there. The language barrier is so bad that neither of us understands each other which makes it damn near impossible to communicate with her. When there's just two of us we can't clean properly. I don't like that either. I find it very troubling. If I go work in a nursing home as a housekeeper then I gotta deal with being tested for Covid twice a week and frankly I don't think my sinuses can withstand that. I don't want to work somewhere where I don't have the option of whether or not I can wear my mask if I want to either. So I don't know. None of these places here have very good work reviews.

My weekend is over and it's time to get back to it. Next week we have HFAP coming to survey the hospital. They're a federal accreditation group of surveyors for critical care hospitals. Depending on what they find will depend on how many days they're here and whether they come back the following year or in 3 yrs.

Well have a good day!
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@MarciKS thats *insane* that they would expect you to do your current jobs under those conditions without any expectations of relief! 😒. No good talking to the department head? Probably few applicants, huh? So sorry
 
CinnamonSugar said:
@MarciKS thats *insane* that they would expect you to do your current jobs under those conditions without any expectations of relief! 😒. No good talking to the department head? Probably few applicants, huh? So sorry
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i doubt the dept. heads will care honestly. it was my choice to transfer to that dept. but they didn't tell me we'd be shorthanded for all eternity. i'm gonna try to be patient and see what happens. i'll keep my eyes peeled for something else.
 
Kaila said:
That's a very rough situation with your job, Marci. yikes! :confused:
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Yeah it's no fun. They don't a/c the building so it's unmercifully hot and they won't let us have drinks on our carts. Two people and 20 rooms or more later on some nights can be too much. And the lead doesn't wanna call people up to help like she's supposed to. It's a mess. Most nights I don't get any of my 15 min breaks. Just my supper break.


:coffee: Anyway, another day of high heat indices. Yesterday was bad. Today will be worse. HFAP isn't hear yet so screw them I'm taking my water with me. LOL! I'm off tomorrow so I will likely just rest. I have some new video games to play so it will be a good day for that. Our meal choices yesterday were so awful at work I ended up having salad and Doritos for supper.

Dad is experiencing some health issues today so I'm not sure if he's gonna be ok or not. He may hafta be hospitalized. I'm gonna leave my phone on silent at work and have it on me in case he calls. I doubt they'll let me off work but that's ok. Not much I can do for him anyway. Brother is closer. He can have him help out.

Have a good day everyone!
 
Dad is ok and he will be going to a specialist soon. Hopefully he will get him fixed up. I realize I am now on borrowed time with Dad. Once he passes and I have lost both my parents I'm not sure how I will be able to deal with it. My mental health is so fractured right now as it is. I'm trying to pick up the pieces and put everything all back together so I can just keep on keepin on. Trying to keep my spirits up and laughter in my heart. But some days are just very unkind to me. I could use an ambush of kittens right now. (From another thread on here...LOL)

I watched the Kiss documentary on Hulu tonite. I think in total it was like 4 hrs but it was pretty interesting.
 
MarciKS said:
Dad is ok and he will be going to a specialist soon. Hopefully he will get him fixed up. I realize I am now on borrowed time with Dad. Once he passes and I have lost both my parents I'm not sure how I will be able to deal with it. My mental health is so fractured right now as it is. I'm trying to pick up the pieces and put everything all back together so I can just keep on keepin on. Trying to keep my spirits up and laughter in my heart. But some days are just very unkind to me. I could use an ambush of kittens right now. (From another thread on here...LOL)

I watched the Kiss documentary on Hulu tonite. I think in total it was like 4 hrs but it was pretty interesting.
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Right there with you, @MarciKS So much coming at me it's hard to think straight sometimes. I'll pray for you... plz pray for me. We'll get through this with His help! ❤️ ya
 
Praying ✔️
Coffee ✔️
Breathing treatment ✔️
Work 😒

:coffee: Another day. I made a phone call yesterday to someone I worked with before I moved here. I was checking to see if they had raised the starting pay at the nursing home yet. Not to no $14.25. They're starting pay is $10. That would mean I would have to go from earning nearly $2000 a month to a measly $960 a month. It wouldn't be enough.

So I will just keep my eyes and ears open for something at some point. Working the next 4 days. I will probably come home and just video game by myself tonight. My friends have all been off doing other things so nobody to play my games with anyway.

My electric bill was $99 and that was with the a/c being on 80° & no lights on and everything unplugged most of the time. Sheesh!

Have a wonderful day! 💕
 
Had to do checkouts by myself last night and might have to again tonight. I was told this is not the norm but if I have to do this too many times I'm gonna start job hunting again. I will be damned if I'm gonna tolerate getting my butt chewed for not being able to clean 20 rooms by myself. I will flat out tell them that too. I don't know who the hell these employers think they are by telling us we have to kill ourselves because they're short handed. Not my damn fault.

:coffee: Oh yeah...good morning I guess. I'm exhausted and in pain. Not a happy camper right now. If that fella from my old apt. building was selling Lortabs 4 for $12 I'd probably buy some right now. LOL! They're gonna be p***ed come Mon. when HFAP walks in and the rooms have dust bunnies and they see the half a**ed job I had to do because I didn't have time to clean them the right way. You know what? They say anything I will definitely say "well, maybe if you wouldn't force one person to do checkouts alone you wouldn't have this problem." They wanna get mad at me they can knock themselves out. I will go to HR if I have to.

Gonna be hot as hell again too. That isn't helping any. Having my coffee and probably gonna have a 5 hr energy drink to give myself a boost. It's either that or I'm gonna be draggin a**. It was interesting the other night, I was on my way to the birthing center on the elevator and it stopped on 5th floor and wouldn't let me go on another elevator or nothing. It just shut down. The service elevators for employees still worked just not the visitor elevators. Turns out they have these little HUGS alarms for the babies so they can't be stolen from the facility. If someone leaves the unit with one still on the baby it shuts everything down. Well I am happy to report that they work.

At least I'm off Mon. Our lead has to work. I feel bad for her. She had to disinfect and UV an entire unit by herself last night for the 2nd time because someone screwed up and told us the wrong thing the night before. The entire unit had Covid and had to be shut down because they have no negative air flow. We were both p***ed last night. Hoping the dayshift gets it finished today. If not it will be a repeat of last night. I won't be doing much moving around come Monday.

I'm going to look into freelance typing jobs that I can do from home. If I can get that to work for me I might start doing that on the side and maybe eventually full time if I can make enough money at it. Maybe if I can make enough money at it I could go to 64 hrs a pay period at work that way I'd still have insurance. Something I will have to look at.

Have a superb Sunday!
 
supposedly hfap is in house at work today. should be loads of fun. i doubt we'll pass inspection without getting dinged for quite a bit of stuff unless they do like the fed surveyors that one year. five min of looking around and the kitchen was declared clean. *rolls eyes* gonna be a crappy week. this week while they're here we will be fully staffed on checkouts. next week we're back to the normal being short.

trying to decide what video games i wanna play tonite. my friends haven't been on that i usually play my other games with so i been doing my own thing. cya later!
 
Well, no HFAP and no video games. LOL! I got distracted doing other stuff this evening and I don't know when the surveyors will be here. I been praying a lot for a 3rd checkout and I was hopeful when they said we had one starting in July but they never made it to orientation. Today we were informed of another gal fresh out of high school, cheerleader, mom works at the hospital. Will be starting the 29th.
 
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