Oh brother do I need a vacation. I know it's time to consider this when I get to my last nerve and I can't take people anymore! Haha..that's right. I can't take people. They're getting on my nerves big time! I know myself well enough to know that it's that time of year for me The weather is starting to break and I'm looking forward to getting out in the sun and see some sights.
But people are really bothering me! Take today for example...we have a program at work that manages some clients money who are getting Social Security benefit but, because of their disability, are not able to understand how to manage it for themselves. There is one lady in that program who literally runs it all. She doesn't like talking directly to our clients. (Kind of strange since we are a community mental health agency and helping people is our game.) Anywho...
She wont take their calls or talk to them so she has created this system where my case managers must be the middle man in all of the clients transactions. Say one client comes in asking for $30 of their own money. The case manager has to contact the payee lady and ask for it. Her system, right? But, whenever a case manager asks for it they get a tirade about irresponsible spending and how the client it probably going to just get drunk and how the case manager has to be strict with the client, and so on and so forth. So, last week, we had a meeting with her to see if we could come up with a way to make this easier on all of us. She was there with her immediate supervisor. After much ranting and raving about how busy she was and how she has more to do than anybody on the face of the planet ever, it was decided we would create some kind of money request form. So, today a client came in and requested $20. Now the new form is not in its final draft, mind you. I knew that but I thought, "Hey, why not give this a whirl." So I did. I completed the form and emailed it to her.
She answered my email with a rant about "why are you using this form" and "my supervisor hasn't told me were using this yet" and "this is not the final draft". Seriously?? We work in a tiny little building and talk to each other every day. I could have walked over to her cubicle to ask, but she doesn't like that. I could have called her on the phone, she hates that too or I could have just emailed her my question but then that's what I was doing but was also just testing the damn form! I can't believe she still found a reason to rant. Sheesh! My last nerve...I swear it.
I need a vacation. I would like to go somewhere but Alex and I are not going to Sweden until later this year. I may have to just take a week off for a time to be at home doing whatever the hell I want and being away from people! Well away from SOME people anyway!
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