Thought for the day

I got angry at work this morning.  And, I expressed that several times.  Of course, it never does anyone any good to do that because no one takes responsibility for anything and rarely is anyone ever disciplined/written up/whatever you want to call it for their lack of effort.  Most days I just accept that and move on, but not today.

Over Christmas, we had a virus outbreak in one of our buildings.  As a result of that, our dining room was closed and boxed meals were provided to the residents.  Makes sense to me.  That way, the virus does not get spread and it is easier to maintain control of it.

I was working in the dining room in our assisted living facility, breakfast and lunch.  I get there around 6:30 a.m. and it's only me and the chef until we open the doors.  Around 6:45, I had to go up to the main dining room to get a few things I needed for breakfast and then I returned to continue my set up.  As I was finishing presetting some things for residents, one of the CNA's pops her head in and asks if we were open.  I told her that we'd be open at 7:30 and she meant were we actually going to open the dining room today because it was closed yesterday.  Apparently the virus had made it's way down to assisted living.  Anyway, no one told us not to open the dining room, so that's what we did. 

I didn't have my usual crowd there, but maybe about 10 showed up.  Almost everyone else was sick and meals in their rooms.  After breakfast is done, the chef receives a call from the executive chef that explains that we are supposed to be closed today and why did we open up at all?  I guess, since neither of us worked the past few days, we were magically supposed to know not to open the dining room.  There was no warning....no phone calls, texts or emails....telling us what was going on and how we would be operating today.  So how were we supposed to know in the first place.  Someone in the know, and there were several in the main dining room way before we opened for breakfast, could have tried to make sure we knew what was going on.  NOPE!!!!!

And, on top of that, both of us were put at risk of getting sick by opening the dining room.  And we put our residents at risk as well.  It was quite frustrating.  And then a manager had the nerve to blame the CNA's for not telling us.  It's not their job.  It's not their dining room.  They don't make that decision.  YOU DO!!!!

Needless to say, it was a frustrating day.  I'm looking forward to my transfer.  Soon.

Cheers.