Smurfin'

I'm back to work.  Whew.  Wait.... I meant whew?


I have gone from one extreme to the other in a way that only DM's seem to fall into.  My last gig was at the chi-zen-redonculous acupuncture office where every smell, blink, or sluffing of my feet was somehow upsetting the energy of someone, somewhere on the planet.  The new gig is a pain management office.  


So from shhhhh zen tree-folk, to the most volatile people of the population.  I guess I don't do gray areas.  


I can't say I hate the new version of patients anymore than I hated the old ones.  They share a common propensity to bitch and tell life stories until they are patted on the head.  Unfortunately, there is a pat limit when it comes to pills, pesky laws and shit throw a dirty wrench into their plots and there is many "damn the man!" shouts of discrimination, judgment, cold-hearted doctors who aim for their torture and on and on.  It's still new and may not last but pays nicely and isn't far from home.  With no work for many months and being interviewed and hired in one day was a sure warning sign, and possibly too good to be true.  Until told to go home, I'm at least off the government buck.  


I am very entertained at the excuses the folks come up with as well as the ways they try to scam the system, including the urine test.  I've seen it all in the past having been a phlebotomist intern where drug screens for employment took place.  Taping urine to legs, arms, backs, that sort of nonsense.  Our lovely specimen collector is flummoxed on how to make sure no one is bastarding in piss that isn't theirs and the only sure fire is - watch em pee.  /shrug.


I'll write more another time of the more entertaining excuses I have overheard from the "fail" list.  Some are rather good and some I wonder if they know what's fallen out of their mouths.  Are they really dumb or is it a riddle to make it sound so unbelievable is HAS to be a truth.  Hrm......

Cheers.

- DM