All in a days work....

Hello everyone! How are you all????? Me, I've been better.... I am a little irritated right now by my "guests"/"customers"....... I work at an information desk at a hospital and I also handle the switchboard (calling emerg. codes and multiple phone lines).....

Everyone is sooooo rude!! I understand that you may have a family member or loved one that is in the hospital but dammit I AM STILL A PERSON!!!!!!!

At the information desk I get yelled at from across the lobby, "Hey where is kldjdofjeklnv9....." or someone will wisper from across the lobby and get angry because I can't hear or understand them.
---COME UP TO THE DESK!!!!!! Speak in a NORMAL voice. PLEASE!!!!

THEN there are the people that do come up to the desk and AS I am saying Hello and May I help you... THEY are irritated that I took 2 seconds of there time to offer a friendly greeting and decide to interupt me with a name that is usually spelled differently or not in the system. OR if the person's name IS in the system they interupt me as I am sharing with them where to find this patient with "Well WHERE can I find them???!!" I answer and begin to tell them what elevator to take and how to get there and they scream "welll just how am I supposed to get all the way there?!!"... GRRRRRRR..... and I just smile and breathe...
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On the switchboard I am bombarded with people who refuse to open their mouths to speak and hang up on me and curse me as soon as I say "hello thanks for calling....."
Some of the doctors are mean as all hell and many of the other hospital staff bark comands and demand that I do their job for them........  I tell you if the switchboard went on strike the hospital would blow up into flames....noone would be aware of any emergencies, patients would be at risk, the doctors would never be contacted, there would be no schedules for hospital staff...... oh and the lovely guests would have no clue where to find their loved ones.....   THEN...

There are the doctors, patients, guest, and other hospital staff that make my job worth-while..... I am greatful for these rare breaths of fresh air. They appreciate my work. They are kind and understanding. The speak with rather than talk AT.... and for that I am greatful and I feel that my work is not gone unnoticed or underappreciated ♥ I am thankful that I DO have a job when so many are going without... I am greatful that my bills are paid... even if I do not have as much in the bank as I would like.... oh well.... things could ALWAYS be worse...