Gentle folks.... I've decided to move to wordpress. Blogger not offering me enough templates and I am once again haunted and want to change it. Because they introduced widgets, I lose too much when I use an outside template. Don't have the time to wade through the code, so the easiest thing is to move over to a provider who will give me choices. Don't plan to close this blog but want to see my blog in better/ different colours.
So I'll be at http://bashmentbasses.wordpress.com/ . I am importing my posts and comments there as well.
Talk about carrying around baggage!
Later.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Regrets
I regret not following up my blog as I used to in previous years. Everyday I see something else I can blog about, some mundane, some topical... all with something I can learn from. But alas I have not been sharing in this medium. I avoid lumping them and presenting bites because that's Bass chocolate's MO. But none-the-less I just gonna speak extemporaneously.
HIJACKING
Let it not be said that I agree with any politician but.... if you have things in place to deal with what you are accustomed to dealing with, and a breech occurs outside of the culture.. I suspect you will be caught with your pants down too. Everyone was in shock when they awoke to the news. The first thing I thought was that the hijacker came down in the plane, not that he boarded in Ja!! Dat don't mek no sense to me. All now it don't mek sense. Him coulda deh pon crack or have schizophrenia.. it is not a Jamaican tactic!! My fear now is dat some idlers thinking to demself ... "hey, yu know seh mi neva ting bout dat! Come mek wi Ijack one plane to farrin!"
STRIKE
My fellow doctors decided that the best way to deal with the current economic impasse with the government is to go on strike. Here's the problem. If a patient dies on my watch because I was on-strike, then I am criminally responsible. I may be able to get a lawyer to get me off on some technicality and suffer no real fall-out from something like that..... but I have a conscience that won't allow that. I think it is not the best option at this time. Yes we need to put pressure on the government to devise and execute transparent methods of collecting outstanding taxes. As it is if they should manage to that, they would have made up their shortfall. Instead they want to impose new taxes while freezing wages, allow a continuation of free market forces to worsen inflation, risk civic unrest, threaten the citizens with police retaliation if they want to protest, etc...
But we cannot in good conscience expect increases in wages at this time, given the country's economic difficulties. I see first hand how health care suffers when patients can't afford medications because they have to choose between caring for children and buying meds. That's unacceptable! Until I went to the pharmacy to fill a prescription for my grandmother. $8000 for pain killers and pressure meds!!! How di backside pl gonna keep up?!
CHARITY
We need to become our brother's keeper. It's the only way we will survive. Nuff said!
BARAK
The man has been given a basket to carry water through hell! He inherited a messed up economy. If he manages to guide them through this, the powers that be will say they chose wisely. If he falls on his face, they will say that a black man wasn't ready. I wish him well and hope he makes it. More people depend on his success than he realizes. Lets see the reports on his first 100 days.
TALIBAN
We throw the title around, and many claim it when they are charlatans. The truth is that the talibans' biggest weapon is fear, thanx to the International Media. No one can keep watch effectively forever.
Selah!!
HIJACKING
Let it not be said that I agree with any politician but.... if you have things in place to deal with what you are accustomed to dealing with, and a breech occurs outside of the culture.. I suspect you will be caught with your pants down too. Everyone was in shock when they awoke to the news. The first thing I thought was that the hijacker came down in the plane, not that he boarded in Ja!! Dat don't mek no sense to me. All now it don't mek sense. Him coulda deh pon crack or have schizophrenia.. it is not a Jamaican tactic!! My fear now is dat some idlers thinking to demself ... "hey, yu know seh mi neva ting bout dat! Come mek wi Ijack one plane to farrin!"
STRIKE
My fellow doctors decided that the best way to deal with the current economic impasse with the government is to go on strike. Here's the problem. If a patient dies on my watch because I was on-strike, then I am criminally responsible. I may be able to get a lawyer to get me off on some technicality and suffer no real fall-out from something like that..... but I have a conscience that won't allow that. I think it is not the best option at this time. Yes we need to put pressure on the government to devise and execute transparent methods of collecting outstanding taxes. As it is if they should manage to that, they would have made up their shortfall. Instead they want to impose new taxes while freezing wages, allow a continuation of free market forces to worsen inflation, risk civic unrest, threaten the citizens with police retaliation if they want to protest, etc...
But we cannot in good conscience expect increases in wages at this time, given the country's economic difficulties. I see first hand how health care suffers when patients can't afford medications because they have to choose between caring for children and buying meds. That's unacceptable! Until I went to the pharmacy to fill a prescription for my grandmother. $8000 for pain killers and pressure meds!!! How di backside pl gonna keep up?!
CHARITY
We need to become our brother's keeper. It's the only way we will survive. Nuff said!
BARAK
The man has been given a basket to carry water through hell! He inherited a messed up economy. If he manages to guide them through this, the powers that be will say they chose wisely. If he falls on his face, they will say that a black man wasn't ready. I wish him well and hope he makes it. More people depend on his success than he realizes. Lets see the reports on his first 100 days.
TALIBAN
We throw the title around, and many claim it when they are charlatans. The truth is that the talibans' biggest weapon is fear, thanx to the International Media. No one can keep watch effectively forever.
Selah!!
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Sum tin wong!!!
Scenario 1:
Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.
1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2008 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario 2:
Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2008 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario 3:
Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2008 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.
1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2008 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario 2:
Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2008 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario 3:
Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.
1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2008 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario 4:
Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman.
2008 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.
Scenario 5:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirins to school.
1957 - Mark shares his aspirins with the Principal out on the smoking dock.
2008 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario 6:
Pedro fails high school English.
1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.
2008 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario 7:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane and blows up a red ant bed.
1957 - Ants die.
2008- ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane and blows up a red ant bed.
1957 - Ants die.
2008- ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario 8:
Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2008 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.
Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2008 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
A load of shiitz
With all the shiitz coming out of Jamaicans mouths, not withstanding that from their rectums, I would never have thought that we needed to bring in more foreign crap to expose our people to. American export products are and have always been inferior to what is available to their domestic market. The opposite holds for Jamaican products. We send the best away and leave the rest for our domestic market.
So why is it that we are importing American shiitz instead of using our own? Perhaps because we still think that all that comes from foreign is good and local is bad. That stinks to me. Human excrement is terrible!! Humans only look good on the outside. Inside we are disgusting in comparison to our herbivore counterparts from whom we usually obtain our fertilizer. A dog bite is cleaner than a human bite!!! Patients with bed sores exposed to their own excrement usually end up dying of overwhelming sepsis due to the massive volume of germs living in our stool!!
Why not process Jamaican excrement then since we are now willing to take the chance on human don't-don't! I suppose they'll say it's cheaper to buy American excrement than to process our own. I'm not reassured that its been tested to American/International faecal standards. I don't care to be exposed to it knowingly (cause for all we know its been happening for years subterfugally)!
They can keep that sh*t!!!
SELAH!!!
P.S. The farmers informed that the regulatory body that certifies their products, doesn't like the human faeces fertilizer so they may lose their international certification for their products if it fails their test!! So much for not doing anything to hurt the Jamaican people.
So why is it that we are importing American shiitz instead of using our own? Perhaps because we still think that all that comes from foreign is good and local is bad. That stinks to me. Human excrement is terrible!! Humans only look good on the outside. Inside we are disgusting in comparison to our herbivore counterparts from whom we usually obtain our fertilizer. A dog bite is cleaner than a human bite!!! Patients with bed sores exposed to their own excrement usually end up dying of overwhelming sepsis due to the massive volume of germs living in our stool!!
Why not process Jamaican excrement then since we are now willing to take the chance on human don't-don't! I suppose they'll say it's cheaper to buy American excrement than to process our own. I'm not reassured that its been tested to American/International faecal standards. I don't care to be exposed to it knowingly (cause for all we know its been happening for years subterfugally)!
They can keep that sh*t!!!
SELAH!!!
P.S. The farmers informed that the regulatory body that certifies their products, doesn't like the human faeces fertilizer so they may lose their international certification for their products if it fails their test!! So much for not doing anything to hurt the Jamaican people.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Corporate Structure defined
Is your company like this?
CORPORATE STRUCTURE
DEFINED AND ANALYZED
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD:
Leaps tall building in a single bound
Is more powerful than a locomotive
Is faster than a speeding bullet
Walks on water
Discusses policy with God
PRESIDENT:
Leaps short buildings in a single bound
Is more powerful than a switch engine
Is just as fast as a speeding bullet
Walks on water if the sea is calm
Talks with God
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT:
Leaps short buildings with a running start and favorable winds.
Is almost as powerful as a switch engine
Is faster than a speeding BB.
Walks on water in an indoor swimming pool
Talks with God if special request is approved
VICE PRESIDENT:
Barely clears a Quonset hut
Loses tug-of-war with a locomotive
Can fire a speeding bullet
Swims well
Is occasionally addressed by God
GENERAL MANAGER:
Makes high marks on the wall when trying to leap buildings
Is run over by locomotive
Can sometimes handle a gun without inflicting self-injury
Dog paddles
Talks to animals
MANAGER:
Runs into buildings
Recognizes locomotive two out of three times
Is not issued ammunition
Can't stay afloat with a life preserver
Talks to walls
TRAINEE:
Falls over doorsteps when trying to enter building
Says "look at the choo-choo"
Wets him/herself with a water pistol
Plays in mud puddles
Mumbles to him/herself
SECRETARY:
Lifts buildings and walks under them
Kicks locomotives off the tracks
Catches speeding bullets in his/her teeth
Freezes water with a single glance
Is God
CORPORATE STRUCTURE
DEFINED AND ANALYZED
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD:
Leaps tall building in a single bound
Is more powerful than a locomotive
Is faster than a speeding bullet
Walks on water
Discusses policy with God
PRESIDENT:
Leaps short buildings in a single bound
Is more powerful than a switch engine
Is just as fast as a speeding bullet
Walks on water if the sea is calm
Talks with God
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT:
Leaps short buildings with a running start and favorable winds.
Is almost as powerful as a switch engine
Is faster than a speeding BB.
Walks on water in an indoor swimming pool
Talks with God if special request is approved
VICE PRESIDENT:
Barely clears a Quonset hut
Loses tug-of-war with a locomotive
Can fire a speeding bullet
Swims well
Is occasionally addressed by God
GENERAL MANAGER:
Makes high marks on the wall when trying to leap buildings
Is run over by locomotive
Can sometimes handle a gun without inflicting self-injury
Dog paddles
Talks to animals
MANAGER:
Runs into buildings
Recognizes locomotive two out of three times
Is not issued ammunition
Can't stay afloat with a life preserver
Talks to walls
TRAINEE:
Falls over doorsteps when trying to enter building
Says "look at the choo-choo"
Wets him/herself with a water pistol
Plays in mud puddles
Mumbles to him/herself
SECRETARY:
Lifts buildings and walks under them
Kicks locomotives off the tracks
Catches speeding bullets in his/her teeth
Freezes water with a single glance
Is God
Friday, January 09, 2009
Saturday, December 06, 2008
perhaps
A woman and a man are involved in a car accident on a snowy, cold Monday morning; it's a bad one. Both of their cars are totally demolished, but amazingly neither of them is hurt. God works in mysterious ways.
After they crawl out of their cars, the man is yelling about women drivers. The woman says, 'So, you're a man. That's interesting. I'm a woman. Wow, just look at our cars! There's nothing left, but we're unhurt. This must be a sign from God that we should be friends and live in peace for the rest of our days.'
Flattered, the man replies, 'Oh yes, I agree completely, this must be a sign from God! But you're still at fault... women shouldn't be allowed to drive.'
The woman continues, 'And look at this, here's another miracle. My car is completely demolished but this bottle of wine didn't break. Surely God wants us to drink this wine and celebrate our good fortune.'
She hands the bottle to the man. The man nods his head in agreement, opens it and drinks half the bottle and then hands it back to the woman.
The woman takes the bottle, puts the cap back on and hands it back to the man.
The man asks, 'Aren't you having any?'
The woman replies, 'No. I think I'll just wait for the police...'
Women are clever and evil ... Don't mess with them.
After they crawl out of their cars, the man is yelling about women drivers. The woman says, 'So, you're a man. That's interesting. I'm a woman. Wow, just look at our cars! There's nothing left, but we're unhurt. This must be a sign from God that we should be friends and live in peace for the rest of our days.'
Flattered, the man replies, 'Oh yes, I agree completely, this must be a sign from God! But you're still at fault... women shouldn't be allowed to drive.'
The woman continues, 'And look at this, here's another miracle. My car is completely demolished but this bottle of wine didn't break. Surely God wants us to drink this wine and celebrate our good fortune.'
She hands the bottle to the man. The man nods his head in agreement, opens it and drinks half the bottle and then hands it back to the woman.
The woman takes the bottle, puts the cap back on and hands it back to the man.
The man asks, 'Aren't you having any?'
The woman replies, 'No. I think I'll just wait for the police...'
Women are clever and evil ... Don't mess with them.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Free sauce?
So I go to BK and I order a combo 1. There is a sign on the wall indicating that they are no longer giving away sauces with combos. Instead, you may have 2 packets of ketchup or 1 sauce depending on the meal ordered. They then layed out the charges for the different condiments available.
I interpreted it to mean that I had a choice of 2 packets of ketchup or 1 packet of sauce. So I waited until they were preparing my order and told them I would like honey mustard instead of the ketchup. The server informed me that I couldn't get the sauce because it didn't come with the meal. I brought her attention to the sign. She said that I needed to speak with the manager and proceeded to call her. Another server added her two cents and said the manegr need not be called because it was very simple... no sauce comes withe meal so no sauce to be given.
The manager approached and I explained why I was of the opinion that I was entitled to my 1 sauce. She said I was not entitled to the sauce because it was not issued with the meal that I ordered. I asked her which meal is served with sauce. Turns out the chicken tenders is served with sauce. I asked if I could swap out the sauce for 2 packs of ketchups if I ordered the tenders. She said yes. So I said that the sign should indicate that only reverse swapping allowed, since one can alwasy trade sauce for ketchup but never ketchup for sauce. She insisted that the sign was correct and quite unambiguous, although she admitted that sauce for ketchup was all that was allowed.
She then tried to passify me by suggesting that I could purchase the sauce for $30. I told her that I paid with my debit card and they would not allow me to make said purchase because it was below the threshhold for debit card purchases. She agreedd and then suggested I return to my vehicle for coins...... I told her that I would not have purchased the meal I did had I known that was the stipulation. She decided to give me a packet of sauce along with the ketchup, and warned me that in future I would have to pay if I wanted sauce.
The whole time I spoke very softly and with as little emotion as possible. Yes I was looking forward to the honey mustard sauce to have with the fries, especially since I already had ketchup at home and didn't need anymore. But no the whole incident wasn't worth the effort expended.
After reaching home I racked my brain for an alternative interpretation of the sign that would validate what the manager was explaining. Eventually 2hrs later I had a fleeting moment of "lucidity" and I thought I saw what she was saying. I think what they were trying to say is that the originally intended condiments is all they are willing to give you at this time. If you really want it your way right away, cough up some more dough!!
Whopper combo (when I wanted a Bacon whopper but they had no bacon)........... $430
Honey mustard sauce and ketchup (when I just wanted hm sauce) ..... free
Getting the sauce free when the rest of the meal was soggy and unpalatable ..... waste of my damn time!!
For everyone else there's Wendy's!!!!!!
I interpreted it to mean that I had a choice of 2 packets of ketchup or 1 packet of sauce. So I waited until they were preparing my order and told them I would like honey mustard instead of the ketchup. The server informed me that I couldn't get the sauce because it didn't come with the meal. I brought her attention to the sign. She said that I needed to speak with the manager and proceeded to call her. Another server added her two cents and said the manegr need not be called because it was very simple... no sauce comes withe meal so no sauce to be given.
The manager approached and I explained why I was of the opinion that I was entitled to my 1 sauce. She said I was not entitled to the sauce because it was not issued with the meal that I ordered. I asked her which meal is served with sauce. Turns out the chicken tenders is served with sauce. I asked if I could swap out the sauce for 2 packs of ketchups if I ordered the tenders. She said yes. So I said that the sign should indicate that only reverse swapping allowed, since one can alwasy trade sauce for ketchup but never ketchup for sauce. She insisted that the sign was correct and quite unambiguous, although she admitted that sauce for ketchup was all that was allowed.
She then tried to passify me by suggesting that I could purchase the sauce for $30. I told her that I paid with my debit card and they would not allow me to make said purchase because it was below the threshhold for debit card purchases. She agreedd and then suggested I return to my vehicle for coins...... I told her that I would not have purchased the meal I did had I known that was the stipulation. She decided to give me a packet of sauce along with the ketchup, and warned me that in future I would have to pay if I wanted sauce.
The whole time I spoke very softly and with as little emotion as possible. Yes I was looking forward to the honey mustard sauce to have with the fries, especially since I already had ketchup at home and didn't need anymore. But no the whole incident wasn't worth the effort expended.
After reaching home I racked my brain for an alternative interpretation of the sign that would validate what the manager was explaining. Eventually 2hrs later I had a fleeting moment of "lucidity" and I thought I saw what she was saying. I think what they were trying to say is that the originally intended condiments is all they are willing to give you at this time. If you really want it your way right away, cough up some more dough!!
Whopper combo (when I wanted a Bacon whopper but they had no bacon)........... $430
Honey mustard sauce and ketchup (when I just wanted hm sauce) ..... free
Getting the sauce free when the rest of the meal was soggy and unpalatable ..... waste of my damn time!!
For everyone else there's Wendy's!!!!!!
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Being miserable
I tuned in to the Golden celebrations on local television yesterday and I was annoyed by the hitches that took place. We knew from August that we were gonna celebrate our athletes. We had heard it announced that it would be a week of celebrations.
So why were the behind the scenes personnel standing in the way when the dancers were entering and causing the dancers to collide in them as they entered the track? Why did the BMW have to break up suddenly to avoid colliding with the other car in front? Why were the cues missed constantly? How some dancers buss early and others looking to their left and right to figure out what's the next step? etc....
Then what message we sending when the para-olympians had to wheel themselves in while the females were drawn in strange looking carriages and the men come in fancy cars? Ok I can understand the princess carriage and the pearl carriage but what was the pumpkin carriage about? Is she a country bumpkin?
What were the half nekkid girls for in the see-through clothes? Why di girl with Asafa had her hand between his legs and wouldn't move it for nutten?
Bolt did exactly what I thought he would do... Appear, walk the track and dance, causing the security much hassle as they try to pretend to do the job they heard that they were to be doing.... keeping unauthorised persons at bay.
Cross/Angry/Miserable
So why were the behind the scenes personnel standing in the way when the dancers were entering and causing the dancers to collide in them as they entered the track? Why did the BMW have to break up suddenly to avoid colliding with the other car in front? Why were the cues missed constantly? How some dancers buss early and others looking to their left and right to figure out what's the next step? etc....
Then what message we sending when the para-olympians had to wheel themselves in while the females were drawn in strange looking carriages and the men come in fancy cars? Ok I can understand the princess carriage and the pearl carriage but what was the pumpkin carriage about? Is she a country bumpkin?
What were the half nekkid girls for in the see-through clothes? Why di girl with Asafa had her hand between his legs and wouldn't move it for nutten?
Bolt did exactly what I thought he would do... Appear, walk the track and dance, causing the security much hassle as they try to pretend to do the job they heard that they were to be doing.... keeping unauthorised persons at bay.
Cross/Angry/Miserable
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
A few reflections
Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!
Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3 : You will NOT make $4,200,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
If you can read this - Thank a teacher!
Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3 : You will NOT make $4,200,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
If you can read this - Thank a teacher!
Monday, September 22, 2008
Seeking clarification
I'm trying to understand why in the reports that Haiti has been hit by 4 tropical storms in the last month, that no mention was made of the Dominican Republic. I know that the Geo teacher and I never really made it past aquaintances but I distinctly remember him saying that Haiti and Dom Rep share the same land mass.
Perhaps the Haitians took the cursed side of the island and built on sand while the Dom Repians built on solid ground, but that would just explain the absence of the massive land slides the Haitians won for themselves after playing the game called forest denudation.
The news reports lamented the fate of poor Haiti, and even said that Hanna sat on Haiti for 4 days! Now, if they were talking about Cuba I could understand because if a storm go north, south, NE, NW,.... it lick Cuba. Cuba just in di wrong place all di time. But is never the same part get lick all the time. But Dom-aiti ain't dat big!!! How Hanna decided which side was gonna get di floodin? Plus based on the news reports, all di disasterin was confined to the Haitiian part of the island. Apparently the storms tried to sneak past the Dom Rep and then let go full force on Haiti.
4 deaths in DR and 300 in Haiti. Did the DRians evacuate or something?
Do Haitians at the border bridge light from the DRians?
So if the Haitian side so salt, How come the Haitians don't run away to the Dom Rep?.... How come!??
Perhaps the Haitians took the cursed side of the island and built on sand while the Dom Repians built on solid ground, but that would just explain the absence of the massive land slides the Haitians won for themselves after playing the game called forest denudation.
The news reports lamented the fate of poor Haiti, and even said that Hanna sat on Haiti for 4 days! Now, if they were talking about Cuba I could understand because if a storm go north, south, NE, NW,.... it lick Cuba. Cuba just in di wrong place all di time. But is never the same part get lick all the time. But Dom-aiti ain't dat big!!! How Hanna decided which side was gonna get di floodin? Plus based on the news reports, all di disasterin was confined to the Haitiian part of the island. Apparently the storms tried to sneak past the Dom Rep and then let go full force on Haiti.
4 deaths in DR and 300 in Haiti. Did the DRians evacuate or something?
Do Haitians at the border bridge light from the DRians?
So if the Haitian side so salt, How come the Haitians don't run away to the Dom Rep?.... How come!??
Sunday, September 21, 2008
How to Stay Safe
How to stay safe in the world today.
1. Avoid riding in automobiles because they are responsible for
20% of all fatal accidents.
2. Do not stay home because 17% of all accidents occur in the
home.
3. Avoid walking on streets or sidewalks because 14% of all
accidents occur to pedestrians.
4. Avoid traveling by air, rail, or water because 16% of all
accidents involve these forms of transportation.
5. Of the remaining 33%, 32% of all deaths occur in hospitals.
Above all else, avoid hospitals.
You will be pleased to learn that only .001% of all deaths occur
in worship services in church, and these are usually related to
previous physical disorders.
Therefore, logic tells us that the safest place for you to be at
any given point in time is at church!
Bible study is safe too.
The percentage of deaths during Bible study is even less.
FOR SAFETY'S SAKE - Attend church and Bible study tomorrow.
IT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE!
1. Avoid riding in automobiles because they are responsible for
20% of all fatal accidents.
2. Do not stay home because 17% of all accidents occur in the
home.
3. Avoid walking on streets or sidewalks because 14% of all
accidents occur to pedestrians.
4. Avoid traveling by air, rail, or water because 16% of all
accidents involve these forms of transportation.
5. Of the remaining 33%, 32% of all deaths occur in hospitals.
Above all else, avoid hospitals.
You will be pleased to learn that only .001% of all deaths occur
in worship services in church, and these are usually related to
previous physical disorders.
Therefore, logic tells us that the safest place for you to be at
any given point in time is at church!
Bible study is safe too.
The percentage of deaths during Bible study is even less.
FOR SAFETY'S SAKE - Attend church and Bible study tomorrow.
IT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE!
Friday, August 22, 2008
Bap bap!!
Instead of shouting 'reach' Jamaican relay athletes now have to scream 'WAIT'!! We too fast now; reaction times too good! Mi proud of all our athletes!
Afasa clear him name. We too good man, we too good. Di USA team dem drop di baton dem cause dem rather DQ than lose to we in everything!!!! LOL!!!
Wi large out backside!!! Who! We dun tek it to di worl! A universe wi a tek it to now!!!!! Bap bap!!
Selah!!
Afasa clear him name. We too good man, we too good. Di USA team dem drop di baton dem cause dem rather DQ than lose to we in everything!!!! LOL!!!
Wi large out backside!!! Who! We dun tek it to di worl! A universe wi a tek it to now!!!!! Bap bap!!
Selah!!
Monday, August 18, 2008
Give me strength, Lord!!
Michael Phelps has done exceedingly well. He could very well be remembered as the most accomplished Olympian having amassed 8 gold medals in one Olympic game.
As a child I used to watch the Olympics and root for everybody. As I got older I started rooting for the under-dogs. Then I started rooting for anyone I damn well felt like.
I stopped rooting for Americans in the 90s because now I was old enough to hear the commentators and how they spoke about non-American contestants. I thought they were being quite bad-minded unnecessarily. They send one bag of ppl to the Olympics and enter every striking category. If they come out with the most medals that's great for them. But why the hell they have to down on smaller countries and their 2 or 3 representatives? I don't need to know that they left a starving family back home because they used all the money they had to get to the Olympics. That has nothing to do with their current ability. It rarely helps to put things in focus.
I realise that they have to keep talking or risk losing the likkle work but damn it man find positive things to say nuh man!?
Now Bob Costas come seh that Bolt cheated the fans by not running right down to the wire and accuse the man of disrespecting the other runners by beating his chest. Di man do weh him never even realise him could a do. Him shock di world!! Everybody feeling good about it... except the Americans (they don't all share the same views I know). Di American bredda weh come third, instead a happy seh Asafa gi im a bligh, him a come seh dat Bolt's run was not phenomenal. Him couldn't do it. Nobody eva do it before and him a come talk like seh is run of di mill. That is just plain bad-minded-ness. Bob Costas can hold a gold medal for bad-minded-ness as well.
Now I think perhaps I should get the bronze for bad-minded-ness because I watch any and every competition just to see if and when the Americans get beaten. Just because of the ignorance of a few I have condemned all to my bad-minded-ness. As I bad-minded Phelps on the weekend it occurred to me that I doin nothing different than what they do, regardless of any self-justification I may have drummed up.
Give me back those good old days when I watched to see the mastery of the games. When I rejoiced with the winners and commiserated with those who didn't. When I recognised that if they made it to the Olympics they are already winners.
Lord, help me to look past my weakness so that I can appreciate the wonders of the Olympics!!!
Selah!!
As a child I used to watch the Olympics and root for everybody. As I got older I started rooting for the under-dogs. Then I started rooting for anyone I damn well felt like.
I stopped rooting for Americans in the 90s because now I was old enough to hear the commentators and how they spoke about non-American contestants. I thought they were being quite bad-minded unnecessarily. They send one bag of ppl to the Olympics and enter every striking category. If they come out with the most medals that's great for them. But why the hell they have to down on smaller countries and their 2 or 3 representatives? I don't need to know that they left a starving family back home because they used all the money they had to get to the Olympics. That has nothing to do with their current ability. It rarely helps to put things in focus.
I realise that they have to keep talking or risk losing the likkle work but damn it man find positive things to say nuh man!?
Now Bob Costas come seh that Bolt cheated the fans by not running right down to the wire and accuse the man of disrespecting the other runners by beating his chest. Di man do weh him never even realise him could a do. Him shock di world!! Everybody feeling good about it... except the Americans (they don't all share the same views I know). Di American bredda weh come third, instead a happy seh Asafa gi im a bligh, him a come seh dat Bolt's run was not phenomenal. Him couldn't do it. Nobody eva do it before and him a come talk like seh is run of di mill. That is just plain bad-minded-ness. Bob Costas can hold a gold medal for bad-minded-ness as well.
Now I think perhaps I should get the bronze for bad-minded-ness because I watch any and every competition just to see if and when the Americans get beaten. Just because of the ignorance of a few I have condemned all to my bad-minded-ness. As I bad-minded Phelps on the weekend it occurred to me that I doin nothing different than what they do, regardless of any self-justification I may have drummed up.
Give me back those good old days when I watched to see the mastery of the games. When I rejoiced with the winners and commiserated with those who didn't. When I recognised that if they made it to the Olympics they are already winners.
Lord, help me to look past my weakness so that I can appreciate the wonders of the Olympics!!!
Selah!!
Sunday, August 17, 2008
SCUBA skills we had to master
10 min swim
Equipment assembly/ dis assembly
Equipment donning and adjustment
BCD inflation and deflation at surface (oral and low pressure)
Regulator recovery
Regulator clearing
Mask clearing (small leak and full)
Underwater swimming
Submersible pressure gauge use
Alternate air source use
Hand signal recognition
Ascent
Pre-dive safety check
Deep water entry
Snorkel clearing - blast method
Snorkel/regulator exchange
Descent
Surface swimming with scuba
Mask removal, replacement and clearing
No mask breathing
Disconnect low pressure inflater
Proper weighting
Air depletion exercise
Weight removal at the surface
Deep water exit - removal of equipment
Fin pivot (low pressure inflation and oral inflation)
neutral buoyancy swim
Cramp removal
Tired diver tow
Air depletion/ alternate air source use
Free flow regulator breathing
Controlled Emergency swimming ascent
Things we learned above our qualification:
no mask swim
weight removal and replacement (underwater and surface)
Equipment assembly/ dis assembly
Equipment donning and adjustment
BCD inflation and deflation at surface (oral and low pressure)
Regulator recovery
Regulator clearing
Mask clearing (small leak and full)
Underwater swimming
Submersible pressure gauge use
Alternate air source use
Hand signal recognition
Ascent
Pre-dive safety check
Deep water entry
Snorkel clearing - blast method
Snorkel/regulator exchange
Descent
Surface swimming with scuba
Mask removal, replacement and clearing
No mask breathing
Disconnect low pressure inflater
Proper weighting
Air depletion exercise
Weight removal at the surface
Deep water exit - removal of equipment
Fin pivot (low pressure inflation and oral inflation)
neutral buoyancy swim
Cramp removal
Tired diver tow
Air depletion/ alternate air source use
Free flow regulator breathing
Controlled Emergency swimming ascent
Things we learned above our qualification:
no mask swim
weight removal and replacement (underwater and surface)
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Self-contained underwater breathing aparatus
So Kelly and I are at Couples Swept Away (paying out of wi head-side fi di likkle vacation) when Kelly suggests that we do the beginners SCUBA course since it's included in the package. I'd seen the ppl in the pool and thought that it might be an interesting thing to do, but I ain't into no craziness like turning off air tank... even if it's just in the pool.
So we sign up and our class is on the penultimate day, no proble..... wait.... I'm not supposed to drink before I dive! But it's just the pool so I guess a few pina coladas won't hurt. Wait.... I need to pass the swim test.... I'll just have to try harder in the morning. I'll just cut back on breakfast... sort of ish.
Thursday morning 8:30am, having had a light breakfast we head to the pool. Jump in he says and give me 8 laps of the pool, no time limit, but only free-style. You stop you start over. Sounds reasonable enough. Rhaaaaatid!!! Mi nearly dead!! Maybe I shouldn't have had so much to eat last night.
Kelly takes the lead and I never recover. Finally he tells me I should be ashamed that my wife kicked my ass and I should get out of the water, I just barely made it.
We get some gears we start off slow in the pool.... it's not very deep and my legs drag but we're just doing some simple stuff.... or so I thought. He keeps making reference to when you are diving in open water... I don't know what he's talking about.
After about 2hrs of skills training and some theory, he says "Ok go get fresh tanks and get your gear on the boat"...... WHAT???? Excuse me sir, we only signed up for the basic scuba course.....
So we get on the boat and I'm not amused. Kelly is fine. Soon land disappears and I've further not amused because as I just demonstrated in the pool, my behind cannot swim back to land.
We gear up and enter the water. My weight belt slips off, but I was holding it as instructed so I don't have to dive for it. We begin controlled descent. Down at the bottom was beautiful. My dive buddy (Kelly) abandons me at the bottom of the sea (her weights weren't enough so she kept surfacing despite a deflated BCD)!!
Instructor goes for her but she opts to return to the boat. I go alone. We complete our basic dive skills part and we surface and all is well. Back on land our instructor tells us that we did very well and we seem so comfortable with scuba diving and we could complete the first level of certification with just a few more hrs of confined and open water training and diving. It'll only cost $250 USD..... each.
DAMN!!!!
So after being so psyched, we all sign up (grp of six). Then he gives us a 220 page book to read so that we can sit a test the following morning as part of the certification exam. No drinking or over-eating again tonight. Damn!!!
So we go eat and then hit the books... So Kelly hits the books and I sleep on and off on the book.
Friday morn I have a nervous stomach and use the bathroom twice. Couldn't eat much at breakfast, just some fruit.
No swim test this time. But had to learn to identify, assemble and disassemble our gear and work out our weighs. Then we learned buddy checks and then got geared up and start another 2 hrs in the pool with skills training. I was surprisingly quite calm when he turned off my air.
We finally head out to do the same skills and what we had learned the day before, in the sea. No buoyancy problems this time with Kelly and he refuses to tell us how far down we are supposed to be going. Our depth turns out to be 40 feet. This dive site is even more beautiful. We do the skills as we had learned and we do some sight seeing. No sharks seen or dolphins but no picture can do justice to what we saw. We head into a cave, swim through and surface several metres away. We do some more skills and then we head back to do the written test.
After passing and getting our paperwork done, he offers us one more dive. Kelly is starving so she declines cause we have to leave right away. I decide to go for it. No dive partner I get partnered with a new instructor, but I'm cool with it. We go this time no skills demonstration. This is the full practice of skills with minimal supervision. We see barracuda and a downed Cessna, body to one side and wing to another. Saw some coral with a steady stream of air bubbles rising from them.
All in all a wonderful dive. So now I have 90minutes of open sea diving under my belt.
We are certified PADI Scuba Divers. Next step is PADI Open Water Diver. We have two more levels for that, but our instructor already covered 1/2 of it with us because he says he prefers to over prepare his students. From his experience he sees too many divers come with respective accreditation and still not have some important skills that are in higher levels that he feels that they should have.
So next step is to get some personal gears and sort out the rest of certification to get to the Open Water Diver level.
So we sign up and our class is on the penultimate day, no proble..... wait.... I'm not supposed to drink before I dive! But it's just the pool so I guess a few pina coladas won't hurt. Wait.... I need to pass the swim test.... I'll just have to try harder in the morning. I'll just cut back on breakfast... sort of ish.
Thursday morning 8:30am, having had a light breakfast we head to the pool. Jump in he says and give me 8 laps of the pool, no time limit, but only free-style. You stop you start over. Sounds reasonable enough. Rhaaaaatid!!! Mi nearly dead!! Maybe I shouldn't have had so much to eat last night.
Kelly takes the lead and I never recover. Finally he tells me I should be ashamed that my wife kicked my ass and I should get out of the water, I just barely made it.
We get some gears we start off slow in the pool.... it's not very deep and my legs drag but we're just doing some simple stuff.... or so I thought. He keeps making reference to when you are diving in open water... I don't know what he's talking about.
After about 2hrs of skills training and some theory, he says "Ok go get fresh tanks and get your gear on the boat"...... WHAT???? Excuse me sir, we only signed up for the basic scuba course.....
So we get on the boat and I'm not amused. Kelly is fine. Soon land disappears and I've further not amused because as I just demonstrated in the pool, my behind cannot swim back to land.
We gear up and enter the water. My weight belt slips off, but I was holding it as instructed so I don't have to dive for it. We begin controlled descent. Down at the bottom was beautiful. My dive buddy (Kelly) abandons me at the bottom of the sea (her weights weren't enough so she kept surfacing despite a deflated BCD)!!
Instructor goes for her but she opts to return to the boat. I go alone. We complete our basic dive skills part and we surface and all is well. Back on land our instructor tells us that we did very well and we seem so comfortable with scuba diving and we could complete the first level of certification with just a few more hrs of confined and open water training and diving. It'll only cost $250 USD..... each.
DAMN!!!!
So after being so psyched, we all sign up (grp of six). Then he gives us a 220 page book to read so that we can sit a test the following morning as part of the certification exam. No drinking or over-eating again tonight. Damn!!!
So we go eat and then hit the books... So Kelly hits the books and I sleep on and off on the book.
Friday morn I have a nervous stomach and use the bathroom twice. Couldn't eat much at breakfast, just some fruit.
No swim test this time. But had to learn to identify, assemble and disassemble our gear and work out our weighs. Then we learned buddy checks and then got geared up and start another 2 hrs in the pool with skills training. I was surprisingly quite calm when he turned off my air.
We finally head out to do the same skills and what we had learned the day before, in the sea. No buoyancy problems this time with Kelly and he refuses to tell us how far down we are supposed to be going. Our depth turns out to be 40 feet. This dive site is even more beautiful. We do the skills as we had learned and we do some sight seeing. No sharks seen or dolphins but no picture can do justice to what we saw. We head into a cave, swim through and surface several metres away. We do some more skills and then we head back to do the written test.
After passing and getting our paperwork done, he offers us one more dive. Kelly is starving so she declines cause we have to leave right away. I decide to go for it. No dive partner I get partnered with a new instructor, but I'm cool with it. We go this time no skills demonstration. This is the full practice of skills with minimal supervision. We see barracuda and a downed Cessna, body to one side and wing to another. Saw some coral with a steady stream of air bubbles rising from them.
All in all a wonderful dive. So now I have 90minutes of open sea diving under my belt.
We are certified PADI Scuba Divers. Next step is PADI Open Water Diver. We have two more levels for that, but our instructor already covered 1/2 of it with us because he says he prefers to over prepare his students. From his experience he sees too many divers come with respective accreditation and still not have some important skills that are in higher levels that he feels that they should have.
So next step is to get some personal gears and sort out the rest of certification to get to the Open Water Diver level.
9.68
I don't care if they correct it to 9.69. Either way di man is a star!!!
Di man stop run at 70metres and start show boat. Beat him chest and all!! Backside!! Can you imagine if he had kept his form? Yow mi sorry fi him now. Dem a go just hook him up to a blood giving set and test him till him weak. All him mada a get test to rhattid. Di pickney weh him go school wid a go get test. Blertneet all di dawg inna di yaard a go get test!!
Anyway mi soon touch road and mi plan fi drive past the Usain Bolt National Stadium onto the Usain Bolt Highway on my way to the Usain Bolt International Airport fi pick up mi relative dem from flight AB016 (Air Bolt)!!
Selah!!!
P.S. Big up Frater!!!! Di man run him personal best and as far as I concern him mash up dat track!!!!
Mi want fi vex wid Powell but him a feel it now and I think I'd rather be supportive than destructive at this time.
Di man stop run at 70metres and start show boat. Beat him chest and all!! Backside!! Can you imagine if he had kept his form? Yow mi sorry fi him now. Dem a go just hook him up to a blood giving set and test him till him weak. All him mada a get test to rhattid. Di pickney weh him go school wid a go get test. Blertneet all di dawg inna di yaard a go get test!!
Anyway mi soon touch road and mi plan fi drive past the Usain Bolt National Stadium onto the Usain Bolt Highway on my way to the Usain Bolt International Airport fi pick up mi relative dem from flight AB016 (Air Bolt)!!
Selah!!!
P.S. Big up Frater!!!! Di man run him personal best and as far as I concern him mash up dat track!!!!
Mi want fi vex wid Powell but him a feel it now and I think I'd rather be supportive than destructive at this time.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Dr. Hamil
The original and still the best...... Sybile Hamil, my mom, has had her PhD accepted after a difficult defense and re-write.
The real Dr. Hamil is now in the house!! Dr. Mommy yu laaawwwjjje and live!!! Me seh so!!
Selah!!!
The real Dr. Hamil is now in the house!! Dr. Mommy yu laaawwwjjje and live!!! Me seh so!!
Selah!!!
Challenge me
I love challenges and my family will tell you that I obsess over them until they are sorted out. I'm not too familiar with the giving up policy... even though I may say it in frustration, I always pick it back up as my mind finds some new way to wrap around it.
Internship is a challenge! That is an understatement!! I hate internship and have been emotionally trudging through it although I have been wearing my game face. I tried to figure out what part of it I hated and at first I wasn't objectively able to separate the parts. But having been abused for the past 6/12, I have become sullen and have been having increased thoughts of drinking.
Why?
This weekend I was on duty (Yep Saturday 8am till Monday 4pm) and in the middle of a quick snooze at 3am I jumped out of sleep panicking that I had missed a call from one of the wards I was covering. Then it hit me.
It's not the fact that I am still learning and have to seek advice from seniors about unfamiliar cases or management situations. It's not the lack of sleep that accompanies being on duty. It's not even the number of times you are put on duty, taking you away from home.
What bothers me is the fact that they call me at anytime and often without any respect to order me around. Yes I can spite them by not responding or taking my sweet time but in the end the patient suffers and I won't do that! Everybody orders you around!! I HATE BEING ORDERED ABOUT!!!!!
Sometimes at work I have to walk around to find equipment to get the job done. I work with it. Sometimes you are railroaded by people's personal life as you try to get the job done. I work round it. Sometimes co-workers are not as helpful/considerate. I work in spite of it. But my blood boils every time I am ORDERED to do something.
I not looking any friends and I don't expect them to be sweeting me up. We all have our work to do. I don't think that I am lazy or a shirker of responsibilities. I know that often I am unconventional which I can and do receive flack for, but I get the work done and I put the patient first. I don't work at making life difficult for co-workers, but they just seem hell-bent on pissing me off!!!
Everything they call you for, in most disrespectful tones and often threateningly, you must hop, skip and jump to get it done right away. If you decide that another patient is more important at the time so you stop to sort that out, they call you back with threats and accuse you of all manner of things. At first I thought I was being paranoid. But as I speak to more interns (suffering in silence) I realise that it's a global phenom!!......at UHWI!
Apparently the crabs-in-a-barrel mentality is inherent in the UHWI structure/hierarchy. Ppl know this. Very few make efforts to change the culture.
I have 5/12 to go, now understanding my real challenge..... avoiding a personal small thermo-nuclear explosion...... before I rid myself of this rite-of-passage!!
Pray for me!!
Internship is a challenge! That is an understatement!! I hate internship and have been emotionally trudging through it although I have been wearing my game face. I tried to figure out what part of it I hated and at first I wasn't objectively able to separate the parts. But having been abused for the past 6/12, I have become sullen and have been having increased thoughts of drinking.
Why?
This weekend I was on duty (Yep Saturday 8am till Monday 4pm) and in the middle of a quick snooze at 3am I jumped out of sleep panicking that I had missed a call from one of the wards I was covering. Then it hit me.
It's not the fact that I am still learning and have to seek advice from seniors about unfamiliar cases or management situations. It's not the lack of sleep that accompanies being on duty. It's not even the number of times you are put on duty, taking you away from home.
What bothers me is the fact that they call me at anytime and often without any respect to order me around. Yes I can spite them by not responding or taking my sweet time but in the end the patient suffers and I won't do that! Everybody orders you around!! I HATE BEING ORDERED ABOUT!!!!!
Sometimes at work I have to walk around to find equipment to get the job done. I work with it. Sometimes you are railroaded by people's personal life as you try to get the job done. I work round it. Sometimes co-workers are not as helpful/considerate. I work in spite of it. But my blood boils every time I am ORDERED to do something.
I not looking any friends and I don't expect them to be sweeting me up. We all have our work to do. I don't think that I am lazy or a shirker of responsibilities. I know that often I am unconventional which I can and do receive flack for, but I get the work done and I put the patient first. I don't work at making life difficult for co-workers, but they just seem hell-bent on pissing me off!!!
Everything they call you for, in most disrespectful tones and often threateningly, you must hop, skip and jump to get it done right away. If you decide that another patient is more important at the time so you stop to sort that out, they call you back with threats and accuse you of all manner of things. At first I thought I was being paranoid. But as I speak to more interns (suffering in silence) I realise that it's a global phenom!!......at UHWI!
Apparently the crabs-in-a-barrel mentality is inherent in the UHWI structure/hierarchy. Ppl know this. Very few make efforts to change the culture.
I have 5/12 to go, now understanding my real challenge..... avoiding a personal small thermo-nuclear explosion...... before I rid myself of this rite-of-passage!!
Pray for me!!
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