[Mezla PigDog]

It's raining here in that there southern England so we haven't entirely ground to a halt. I'm an hours drive away from home so I'm keeping my fingers crossed it stays that way!

[Gust Hubb]

Una, on 28 January 2015 - 06:20 PM, said:

Hang in there GH! It gets better.

If the attending is yelling, then the problem is the attending, not you. Professional people do not yell and scream and take it out on subordinates when they are stressed. Just take it as a lesson on how NOT to treat your residents when you are an attending, extract the relevant medical learning points out of the experience, if there are any, and keep your eye on the prize...

Thanks Una. Yeah, she apologized actually (at the end of the day yesterday) which scored points in her favor. These junior attendings.... How quickly one forgets what it is to be a resident.

[Gust Hubb]

Gnaw, on 28 January 2015 - 07:19 PM, said:

Gust Hubb, on 28 January 2015 - 04:24 PM, said:

I always hate working with attendings the day after getting yelled at... never know what to expect :-/

What the hell was the attending yelling at you about?? What kind of mistake could you possibly have made? Brought the patient back to life?

You're awful....

[Gust Hubb]

Abyss, on 28 January 2015 - 08:48 PM, said:

Gnaw, on 28 January 2015 - 07:19 PM, said:

Gust Hubb, on 28 January 2015 - 04:24 PM, said:

I always hate working with attendings the day after getting yelled at... never know what to expect :-/

What the hell was the attending yelling at you about?? What kind of mistake could you possibly have made? Brought the patient back to life?

Hit em with the defibrillator!

(the attending, not the patient... unless that's what's medically called for... then defib EVERYBODY!!!!!)

We don't have one in the basement that I know of... The only high voltage device is the electron microscope.

[Maark Abbott]

Gorefest, on 29 January 2015 - 12:14 PM, said:

Maark, on 29 January 2015 - 11:56 AM, said:

Where are you based? Trams are a deedar contraption...

Sheffield. It's the hills that is doing us in at the moment. People are actually leaving their cars abandoned on the tram tracks, plus one of the trams has broken down as well.

Ah gioer tha deedar bast. I work on Millsands!

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Maark, on 29 January 2015 - 01:41 PM, said:

Gorefest, on 29 January 2015 - 12:14 PM, said:

Maark, on 29 January 2015 - 11:56 AM, said:

Where are you based? Trams are a deedar contraption...

Sheffield. It's the hills that is doing us in at the moment. People are actually leaving their cars abandoned on the tram tracks, plus one of the trams has broken down as well.

Ah gioer tha deedar bast. I work on Millsands!

This forum is a very small world - I'm from Sheffield originally, and as Maark and I discussed I also used to work at Millsands!

[Gorefest]

Maark, on 29 January 2015 - 01:41 PM, said:

Ah gioer tha deedar bast. I work on Millsands!

Royal Hallamshire me. But I need to get out to Birley somehow. Though apparently the trams and buses are (temporarily) back in business.

[Maark Abbott]

Gorefest, on 29 January 2015 - 03:31 PM, said:

Maark, on 29 January 2015 - 01:41 PM, said:

Ah gioer tha deedar bast. I work on Millsands!

Royal Hallamshire me. But I need to get out to Birley somehow. Though apparently the trams and buses are (temporarily) back in business.

One of my guys is transferring there to work in the labs up there - lad called Jordan.

I seem to recall an 8 string metal band from Sheffield. Hmmm...

It is real weird how small this world is getting. Next it'll turn out you were in said 8 string band.

[Gorefest]

I work in the labs. Don't know any Jordan's, though. Any idea which department he's in?

8 string huh? What, like Order of Voices or something like that? Nope, don't play any instrument, just like my music guitar-heavy.

[Traveller]

It's my birthday and I appear to be.. 40.

Oh well at least today I have an excuse to be drinking at midday.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Gorefest, on 30 January 2015 - 12:10 PM, said:

8 string huh? What, like Order of Voices or something like that? .

That's who I was thinking of....

[Maark Abbott]

Gorefest, on 30 January 2015 - 12:10 PM, said:

I work in the labs. Don't know any Jordan's, though. Any idea which department he's in?

8 string huh? What, like Order of Voices or something like that? Nope, don't play any instrument, just like my music guitar-heavy.

He's not there yet but he's joining sometime in February (his last shift here is in about two weeks). He's a fluffy haired chap, vaguely hipster. When he joins, tell him I said 'go in ready'. If he knows what it means, it's him.

Don't know the band name, but I did once know a guy who played in a band with eight strings in Sheffield. Stu, I think?

GMG today: Work. Fed up to the back bloody teeth of it. Every time it's looking up, I get chokeslammed to the floor with more force than a genesic emerald Tager buster. "We want you to succeed," they say, whilst shafting my ability to progress at any stage they can. Ugh. It's like pressing my face into an industrial sander sometimes...

[Gnaw]

Just got back from the hospital. The male parental unit, in the CCU for pneumonia, decided that the nurses were out to get him. Punched one in the nose and kicked another in the chest. He disowned me for not getting him out of there.




So I called his minister and made him come down and visit. Make the shaman earn his keep.

[Tsundoku]

Gnaw, on 01 February 2015 - 06:32 AM, said:

Just got back from the hospital. The male parental unit, in the CCU for pneumonia, decided that the nurses were out to get him. Punched one in the nose and kicked another in the chest. He disowned me for not getting him out of there.




So I called his minister and made him come down and visit. Make the shaman earn his keep.

Was he on morphine or something similar? A friend of mine experienced massive paranoid delusions when he was put on morphine in hospital after a car crash.

This post has been edited by Sombra: 01 February 2015 - 06:58 AM

[Mentalist]

The lead singer for my favourite band from ever since I was a kid died in a car crash today.

I never did manage to make it to their concerts in the 90s, because I was too young, and I never knew when they were in Canada.

Theirs was the first song whose lyrics I. Memorized off the radio fully, not just the chorus. To me, they were the Ukrainian 90s.

RIP Andriy Kuzmenko, AKA "Kuz'ma Skryabin"

[Maark Abbott]

My Carlton Banks shirt still hasn't turned up. Ack.

[QuickTidal]

I waded into work through the absolute insane drifts of snow and windchill scraping across my face to get to work...on my birthday...and the only people who bothered to show up are all the office workers who live as far away from the job as I do and commute long distances...nearly EVERYONE who lives close (between 15min-30min away) has decided to take themselves a snow day. Which would be fine...if the rest of us weren't here holding down the fort in their place.

Second non-fave thing today: The people who are snow daying...AKA "working from home"... have no compunction about emailing repeatedly about shit they want or need done....and oh it's GOTTA be done today while they aren't here. Magically.

The only silver lining is that I get to spend the evening with my wife inside watching TV and drinking wine...so while today kind of sucks...tonight ought to be much better once I weather the trip home.

[Tiste Simeon]

I thought taking a "snow day" in Canada means an instant revocation of your citizenship and getting booted to the US (with a polite apology following) and then a lifetime ban of eating maple syrup from a hockey stick.

That's the sort of thing you guys do, right?

(Edit also, happy birthday!)

This post has been edited by Tiste Simeon: 03 February 2015 - 06:01 AM

[Maark Abbott]

The work website filter is pretty silly at times. I can't access that thread about 'say no to princesses being rescued in games!!!!!!' because the work filter has labelled it a sex website.

Meanwhile I can pop into the DG thread and laud Bidithal a hero and nothing happens. The inconsistency irks me.

[Andorion]

I think I busted my left knee. It really hurts in the area below the kneecap, left, right and centre. Also it doesn't feel right when I walk.