job wrinkles

My supervisor is the primary person that I'm working for. He approves my time sheets, orders, etc. There's another person in the department that runs the clinical processing (not sure if they're considered collegues or what). Clinical doc told people that I'm to learn ALL the clinical procedures, but I didn't hear it first hand.

I don't honestly mind. I like doing clinical stuff because it's more people interactions with patients, doctors, and nurses. Plus, you have to be here before 7 and thus leave earlier in the afternoon.

But the word of me learning all the clinical stuff trickled down when my supervisor wasn't here. And if this is going to become a territorial thing, I don't want any part of it. I'm just here to do lab work.

Speaking of lab work, my supervisor came in and asked if I had gotten the email about my contracting agency.

"Uhh, no. Is there a problem?"

"I'll forward it to you and you can decide."

From what I got from the email (that WAS supposed to be sent to me, but wasn't) was that the agency that recruited me works with a different company to distribute the government's money to pay contract staffers such as myself. Different company got in trouble with the government, and government says "we won't release any more money after 9/30/07 if different company is involved in distribution of funds." The email was assuring that a new different company would get involved so we SHOULD still get paid after October 1.

Lovely. It only took how long to get the funding for my position, and now I potentially could be fired in October just because a third party pissed off the government?

Yes, there are a lot of middle men in between me and my job. I could probably get another $10/hr if we cut them out, but they have employees that need jobs too, right?

So I called my recruiting agency and asked for more information about if I should start looking for a new job or not.

"What email?"

"Funny, I said the same thing. But I'll forward it to you."

"Okay, I'll have to get back to you on that. Would you want to keep working there or should we start looking for a new job for you?"

"I think they're expecting me to stay for a while. I don't want to leave."

*sigh*

ragged running

Or is it running ragged?

I have so much to do it isn't funny. After work tonight, I'm meeting up with someone for a little while since I haven't seen him in a few weeks. I wish I could raincheck it, but I'm too good of a friend to say "no".

Boyfriend will be in AZ tomorrow. At least I have clinic, so I should be able to leave at a decent time in the afternoon. He has a craving for Carrabba's so we'll be going there after work tomorrow. At least they have a gluten free menu so I can eat there without too much trouble. I thought it was okay, but it seems to have made a better impression on boyfriend.

Thursday, more clinic. After work it's laundry, packing, and getting stuff together for Friday's trip camping.

Friday morning, boyfriend leaves to stake out a campsite. I have more clinic, cell maintainance, seminar, and social after seminar. So my hopes of leaving at a decent time are going out the window on Friday. But sometime that night, I'll be reunited with boyfriend with our matchmakers joining us sometime after that.

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Yes, we know about the upcoming fire restrictions. No open fires or charcoal permitted. A bit of a bummer, but not unexpected this time of year with so little rainfall. The last human caused fire by the area caused 4.5 MILLION dollars to get under control. But everyone still wants to go, so we're still going minus the campfire. (At least this way all the clothes won't come back home smelling like smoke.)

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And part of my running ragged was to catch up to a different friend last night that wanted to see "Shrek". So we went, and I left my VCR to tape the season finale of "24". Was kinda "eh" about "Shrek", and when I finally got home, I fought fatigue to watch "24". The way it ended made me pull my hair out with "I stayed up to past 11 for THIS?????????" I suppose after the season finale of the first season, it's hard to impress, but damn I was mad.