Few notes from work this morning
Good morning this is me. It’s already 10 am, and I don’t seem to have gotten very far, so I figured I better check in here and see if I couldn’t use this medium to propel me forward. We’ve gone through our computer check-in … that really hurts when we are not able to get to it first thing in the morning. On days like this, we wake up with our hunny bunny and its already time for one of us to get in the shower to start the day off proper and there is no time for the computer, because after we are both through, we are sharing the time in the kitchen, instead of me being on the computer. Sweetie usually has his computer up and running, though this morning he was going through bills. I eat my cereal opposite of whatever he is doing and I try to get out from him a conversation in the meantime. I like when he’s talking as he’s going through his tasks. Helps me to feel connected to him and that we are blending our lives together. He’s more that anyone should ever ask for in a life time!Last night we left work at 6:30 pm because we were working on a staff survey. I typed out my response and it ended up being 10 pages long. To be fair there were a lot of questions – 30 all total. Sister is experimenting with a new survey that I’d given her quite a while ago. It is very detailed and gets into decision making and goals and such. It was a good survey. But, it took me a while due to other things happening.
One of the things was that Sister interviewed a new job candidate for a Q position. The lady’s name was Courtney and she seemed like a good match between Holly and me. I liked her a lot and I thought she had good experience. She has worked for Lamb’s Farm during the 3 day weekends and she is familiar with filling in when staff isn’t there and working odd shifts and so forth, so she would be able to work around apparent needs and is still motivated to be doing this kind of work. There is one problem though in that she’s just finishing work that would certify her as a teacher. So, I don’t know if she would be willing to stay although we were pushing that point directly. She seemed like a smart person and able to read through the lines enough so that if we gave her a job she’d be able to figure it out. She was at a good age range upper 30’s and was going to be getting married very soon. Sister also worried because it took her 40 minutes to get here, but to be fair three of us are at that distance from work already. It is a doable thing.
Shoot something just happened and I had to apologize profusely. I had arranged for six of our people to be going to another center to do computers. But, I forgot that it was supposed to start today. The director of the program just called to see what had happened to us. She said she had had a teacher arranged and everything. We’ll probably hear it from here too. She was a hard person and I think I’ve just wrecked my relationship to her. That’s a bad idea. I know if push came to shove, I could get a job at her place … though I wouldn’t want it … no private offices share with 30 other people and share computers, plus do a lot of traveling. YEEKS … not in my interest. It’s probably going to be impossible to make up lost ground here. She had first said to come right away, but I couldn’t pull things together that fast. I don’t even know if Brandy is in the building. She would have to be the driver. I told Sr. Theresa and she put it on me too … she said she has enough stuff to worry about. I should have been able to remember … I just hate my memory. Ok, ok … we’re not going to beat ourselves up with this … just have to improve our system. We’ll set it up so that I can’t forget … talk to sister ahead of time and make sure that everyone is arranged.
Ok, we’re going to need concentrating. Hmm, we were talking about the new Q who applied yesterday. I think that Sr. is thinking seriously of hiring her, but she would have her work as a DSP part of the time and part of the time as a QMRP. I’m thinking this is so she could get used to the clients. And, to help her out. When she named her experience teaching, I wasn’t really impressed with it, because she was more a teacher’s aid and just working on interim basis. I do worry about her wanting to teach elementary, although she said that her primary interest is working for people who have special needs.
Maybe she could get so used to the place she wouldn’t want to leave. I told Sister that I would want to give her the entire caseload so I could work on program development. Sister thought loosely that it might be too much and that she could take just some. I told her it wouldn’t be worth it to have her then. But, that part was partly under my breath. I told her again during the survey, that I no longer wanted to be a QMRP … that was then twice. I might be working myself out of a job, but I’m just sick to pieces of it. I have a new concern in that Sister is going to hold this person over me because she has a degree in education, so per se could be the one to work on program development. I haven’t thought through that angle yet.
I think I would go ahead and try to get those books on planning and read through them within the next couple of months prior to fall. Let’s see what would I need?
posted by Ann Marie @ 6/06/2007 04:26:00 PM
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