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aprilstarchildI got some things done today, yippy skippy!
I had someone drive me to the max after work so I'd get to Finnegan's with a little time. As it was, I had fifteen minutes to hurridly write out an application, hopefully I didn't fuck up too much, and was still in there three minutes after they closed. . It wasn't a xeroxed thingie like most places, they had a laminated paper that said what information they wanted, with some lined binder paper and a pen. I perched on a stool that an employee took from behind a counter and tried to write it out as quickly as possible without having messy handwriting. I think I did okay, even if I did forget to write what my job actually required and then wrote it down later in the application. Also, I couldn't remember my supervisor's name or contact info for UPS.
I'm not worried, though. I'm kind of leaving it up to fate. Because as it is, if I'm even interviewed I'll have just as many questions as the interviewer--how hard is it to get weekends off (for pirate stuff etc.)? What's the hourly pay? What are the benefits? If they pay and benefits are worse than what I have now, forget it. I have no idea, though.
All the workshifts are 10am to 6pm. Which means, I could go back to my semi-normal sleeping habits of midnight to eight.
To truly complicate matters, I emailed SEIU's local to ask if my workplace would be eligible to unionize. Turns out the answer is yes, and a union rep wants to talk to me. Hoooo boy.
See, here's the thing. The pay and benefits at my job blow monkeys, and the management isn't so hot. My first instinct is to flee. But that's part of the problem--my department in particular, and most of the MA sections, have incredibly high turnover because the pay/benefits/management sucks so bad. So do I try to start a union not just for me but for other people who will work there, or do I just get the hell out of dodge?
Then there's the fact that my office is in Beaverton, which isn't exactly a hotbed of pro-union sentiment.
Speaking of work: The records department is basically run as inefficiently as humanly possible. Due to high turnover, we're often shorthanded, and when things back up everything takes so much longer because of the stupid way shit is done, leading to a vicious cycle where we're constantly behind.
This is boring, but try to bear with me: When loose papers come into the records department--say, dictation, lab results, that kind of thing--they get dropped off at the desk I'm working at right now. They're sorted and then put into folders, which takes about a day and a half. When someone needs to send a chart out to a doc's office for any reason, someone has to flip through the folders looking to see if there's any loose papers that belong in the chart, which is very tedious and time consuming, before putting them in the proper parts of the chart (aka chart assembly) and then sending it out. Keep in mind, we send out hundreds of charts per day. If four people are doing chart assembly, they're also all trying to reach around each other to find loose papers on those shelves.
We're all assigned sections of charts, and in theory we regularly put all of the loose sheet for our section into their charts. Pssht. Yeah right. The folders of loose papers take up four times as much space as they should currently, there's just that much of it. I'm assigned to 54-62, and doing half of one section takes me several hours, which I almost never have. And not everyone's even trained on chart assembly right now.
Most medical offices do what's called "dropfile." The sorting job would still exist, but instead of being fine-sorted into folders that someone has to go through, someone would go through that section of charts and just drop the loose papers into the proper chart as they came into the department and were sorted. The papers would be loose in the charts until someone ordered that chart for something, and then when the chart was pulled and given to chart assembly, the loose papers for that chart would already be in there. We would only need half as many people doing chart assembly, and the actual dropfiling could be done by anybody who knew how to do filebacks.
It's not like it's a new idea to The Portland Clinic, the South office does it that way. So why don't we!? My supervisor's looking into it. If we get permission, we wouldn't have to hire four more people, because that's how many people left recently, including one girl who'd been here all of a month and got a better offer elsewhere.
I bought these boots today. Go me. Good for dancing, or pirating. Either way, I'm good.
Speaking of pirating, the front of the Mercury this week, is a guy who has a booth at pirate events. I have pictures of him in front of his booth of pirate-themed pottery/ceramics. Apparently he lives in Estacada.
Yay, getting laundry done. Aren't I all productive and crap.
I had someone drive me to the max after work so I'd get to Finnegan's with a little time. As it was, I had fifteen minutes to hurridly write out an application, hopefully I didn't fuck up too much, and was still in there three minutes after they closed. . It wasn't a xeroxed thingie like most places, they had a laminated paper that said what information they wanted, with some lined binder paper and a pen. I perched on a stool that an employee took from behind a counter and tried to write it out as quickly as possible without having messy handwriting. I think I did okay, even if I did forget to write what my job actually required and then wrote it down later in the application. Also, I couldn't remember my supervisor's name or contact info for UPS.
I'm not worried, though. I'm kind of leaving it up to fate. Because as it is, if I'm even interviewed I'll have just as many questions as the interviewer--how hard is it to get weekends off (for pirate stuff etc.)? What's the hourly pay? What are the benefits? If they pay and benefits are worse than what I have now, forget it. I have no idea, though.
All the workshifts are 10am to 6pm. Which means, I could go back to my semi-normal sleeping habits of midnight to eight.
To truly complicate matters, I emailed SEIU's local to ask if my workplace would be eligible to unionize. Turns out the answer is yes, and a union rep wants to talk to me. Hoooo boy.
See, here's the thing. The pay and benefits at my job blow monkeys, and the management isn't so hot. My first instinct is to flee. But that's part of the problem--my department in particular, and most of the MA sections, have incredibly high turnover because the pay/benefits/management sucks so bad. So do I try to start a union not just for me but for other people who will work there, or do I just get the hell out of dodge?
Then there's the fact that my office is in Beaverton, which isn't exactly a hotbed of pro-union sentiment.
Speaking of work: The records department is basically run as inefficiently as humanly possible. Due to high turnover, we're often shorthanded, and when things back up everything takes so much longer because of the stupid way shit is done, leading to a vicious cycle where we're constantly behind.
This is boring, but try to bear with me: When loose papers come into the records department--say, dictation, lab results, that kind of thing--they get dropped off at the desk I'm working at right now. They're sorted and then put into folders, which takes about a day and a half. When someone needs to send a chart out to a doc's office for any reason, someone has to flip through the folders looking to see if there's any loose papers that belong in the chart, which is very tedious and time consuming, before putting them in the proper parts of the chart (aka chart assembly) and then sending it out. Keep in mind, we send out hundreds of charts per day. If four people are doing chart assembly, they're also all trying to reach around each other to find loose papers on those shelves.
We're all assigned sections of charts, and in theory we regularly put all of the loose sheet for our section into their charts. Pssht. Yeah right. The folders of loose papers take up four times as much space as they should currently, there's just that much of it. I'm assigned to 54-62, and doing half of one section takes me several hours, which I almost never have. And not everyone's even trained on chart assembly right now.
Most medical offices do what's called "dropfile." The sorting job would still exist, but instead of being fine-sorted into folders that someone has to go through, someone would go through that section of charts and just drop the loose papers into the proper chart as they came into the department and were sorted. The papers would be loose in the charts until someone ordered that chart for something, and then when the chart was pulled and given to chart assembly, the loose papers for that chart would already be in there. We would only need half as many people doing chart assembly, and the actual dropfiling could be done by anybody who knew how to do filebacks.
It's not like it's a new idea to The Portland Clinic, the South office does it that way. So why don't we!? My supervisor's looking into it. If we get permission, we wouldn't have to hire four more people, because that's how many people left recently, including one girl who'd been here all of a month and got a better offer elsewhere.
I bought these boots today. Go me. Good for dancing, or pirating. Either way, I'm good.
Speaking of pirating, the front of the Mercury this week, is a guy who has a booth at pirate events. I have pictures of him in front of his booth of pirate-themed pottery/ceramics. Apparently he lives in Estacada.
Yay, getting laundry done. Aren't I all productive and crap.
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Date: 2005-08-12 04:24 am (UTC)If you were a boy I'd say you were "a boot pirate" in an accent that emphasized the double entendre properly.
Hee hee
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Date: 2005-08-12 05:41 am (UTC)