Monday March 24, 2008

Worst Parts of the Day-

This day started annoyingly as I was prepared to begin my Travel RN madness at 8am.  I received a call at 7am to "...not go in" as my company did not receive my stinking TB skin test results in time on Friday (do they not recall 2 feet of snow on Friday?!*)  O.k. fine.  I simply trotted over to my other job. 

At 9am I received another call to "Go now...quickly to the hospital--they re waiting for you!" Ohmygod.  I rush to the new hospital like a good employee and wait in the East Entrance Waiting Area as instructed.  I'm feeling confident right when I walk in.  I verify with the not terribly friendly front desk staff that I am in the correct place.  I wait about 15 minutes and the front desk trio starts to get nervous (as I could be a security risk for Pete's sake).  I tell them I am dutifully waiting for "Cheryl".  They collectively find it fishy that I do not know of "Cheryl's" last name and none of them seems to know a "Cheryl" off-hand.  Anyway I wait and wait.  This waiting is not like the loungy waiting in the terminal for a delayed plane.  I am in ready stance. At any second I must change from pleasantly looking at passersby to my contrived smiley/new employee face.  As I wait I begin to have doubts about this whole thing (yes, again!)  In between calling my recruiter and verifying with the front desk crew multiple times (who now officially think I am up to something no good), I wait a total of 65 minutes.  Ho hum.  No Cheryl. 

To make this worse, No-show Cheryl calls my recruiter and tells her I never showed up!!  

 

Best Part of the Day-

I followed my instincts and popped in to the ER sans Cheryl.  (I was already at the hospital--I really wanted to eyeball the scene).  I introduced myself to the staff and all seem friendly and happy to have a set of new hands (potentially, we'll see about this) working with them.