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post #16 of 25
7/3/09 at 4:57pm
I'm at work today. I'm taking tomorrow off, but will be working on Sunday.
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post #17 of 25
7/3/09 at 7:01pm
I have a three-day weekend going on, and I'm loving it. 4th of July is always fun for me.
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post #18 of 25
7/4/09 at 11:11am
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Originally Posted by Piobaire View Post
GT, that sucks.

thanks, but that is life. I wanted to make sure I was home to take the kids to fireworks, and that'll happen, unless it rains too hard.
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post #19 of 25
7/4/09 at 11:25am
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Originally Posted by inq89 View Post
Working Saturday and Sunday from 6:00-2:30. In bed early for next morning, no fireworks for me.

+1

Same for me.
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post #20 of 25
7/4/09 at 12:37pm
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post #21 of 25
7/4/09 at 1:46pm
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Originally Posted by globetrotter View Post
thanks, but that is life. I wanted to make sure I was home to take the kids to fireworks, and that'll happen, unless it rains too hard.

Glad you're getting time with the kids.

Call this weekend. Ugh, five calls already when I should get maybe one all weekend. People lose about 50 IQ points on holiday weekends, I swear.
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post #22 of 25
7/5/09 at 12:53pm
Pio, not to be nosey, but what kind of calls are these? For some reason I thought you were a hospital exec or something like that? Sux in any case, sorry to hear that.
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post #23 of 25
7/5/09 at 2:08pm
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Pio, not to be nosey, but what kind of calls are these? For some reason I thought you were a hospital exec or something like that? Sux in any case, sorry to hear that.

In some ways, health care is very like the military, so to carry the analogy, 24/7, there's an officer of the watch. In health care, it usually takes the form of a manager on call. Usually it's various department heads, "house officers" or "ho's" as they get called by floor staff, etc. No one likes to take call on holiday weekends, so I take one holiday a year, as I'm a big believer of leading from the front.

On a normal weekend, the manager on call would get called only for big things. Fire alarm going off, some disruption like a fight, someone getting found dead in dubious circumstances, etc. Nine times of ten, more an FYI than anything else. But on holidays, people seem to want to bother those not actually there, so things get moved up the chain rather fast. Two of the calls yesterday, was because a VIP was raising a ruckus over something. Something that should have gotten handled by easily by people there.

It's sort of like kids acting out at bedtime on Xmas eve.
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post #24 of 25
7/5/09 at 2:30pm
Interesting. Well on the bright side, at least you got it out of the way. Good on you for leading by example. Many wouldn't.
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post #25 of 25
7/5/09 at 2:35pm
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Interesting. Well on the bright side, at least you got it out of the way. Good on you for leading by example. Many wouldn't.

Thanks for the compliment. As a guy that came up from the clinical side, I always swore I'd keep my hands in the mix.

Yup, no more holiday call for me this year Already thinking about Labour Day week off. And no other calls; I guess it was just a cluster.
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