If you Google "survival in the office", one of the top five hits will be the following article from New York Magazine. I've been a fan of the American television show The Office since even before I began working in one full-time. Despite all the cringe-worthy moments portrayed in the fictional series, it's still a great escape at the end of a busy week. How does the clip below NOT help improve any "Case of the Mondays"???
Movie Mondays
Any opportunity I can possibly use to laugh off the insanity of my work life is my first choice of defense. I've found that this automatic mood boost can be successfully achieved in several variations. It can be as simple as updating my Facebook status to a thinly veiled rant (that my boss being on my blocked list will never read) or just venting to my best friend in an after work phone call.
Lately, it hasn't been so much TMI as it has been that she's NEVER there. This may sound like a good thing, and that I'm complaining about nothing. I realize that there are jobs out there where you can be your own boss and set your own hours, but my line of work is not one of them. I can't decide if my boss' superior just simply doesn't care that she's never there or he's completely oblivious to just how much she's absent in any given week. It's even come to the point where myself and the other nurses question if she's really attending these so-called "Manager's Meetings". Prime example of her inability to show up at work being just this past Monday morning. After leaving at 1 pm the Friday before to "run errands" (I wish I was kidding), she text messaged me the following Monday morning to tell me that her "car won't start". It was a quarter past 10 when she finally made it in, blaming her 16 yr old daughter for leaving the lights on all night thus draining her battery. I've been working in this doctor's office for two years now, and it's always something with this this lady and her bottomless bag of ridiculousness.
I sure love The Office, too. Any side-splitting laughing is good for soul, even if they're making fun of each other. I also work at a place with an absent boss, but it works for us. Most of the time. Unfortunately, he never sees the million notes I've posted about needed toilet paper or towels until we have a red alert status in the bathroom. It seems like having a boss actually showing up to work in a medical office environment would be pretty important!
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