by ScoobySnax 15 Replies latest social current
..... Or must you always go that little bit further. Have the last say. Let your Ego carry you that bit further....... Do you know when to call it a day when some ignorant little shite insists on getting in last. Can you turn the other cheek. Can you walk away. Can you?
Do you really know when to SHUT-UP?
Scoob
Are you drunk?
Ican shut up,But when I do their has to be a really good reason to.
Like but shutting up I just may be proving my point.
Not yet.
Saturday nights are for drink and disorderly round these parts.
BTTT.
Yes. I excelled at it as a child.
Yeah.....do you?
Do you know when to call it a day when some ignorant little shite insists on getting in last.
In the case of ignorant little shites, yes, sometimes it is better to just walk away.
In the case of ignorant big shites (ones that are in a position to harm me), sometimes I have gone that extra mile and not only shut up, but I also tuned out and turned off.
I think I did too Tex when I was a kid.
As I've got older I've learnt to stick up a bit better for myself, especially in the work environment. Some doctors can be such assholes, but thats another thread. What I did decide was not to carry stuff home with me anymore, if someone upsets me then I feel duty bound now to get my point across as well. Maybe thats ego working, maybe its not knowing when to shutup.
In the week, I sent a patient down for a CT scan. Subsequently she became unwell in the department, the first I knew about it was a phonecall from a very irate Consultant demanding to speak to me. He asked me on the phone if I knew that the patient was fibrilating and had chest pain. No I replied. Well you should he said, you are supposed to be the Ward manager, thats the trouble with you nurses you never think ahead. I put the phone down, and got a nurse to go and collect the patient. When she came back the patient was fine, she just had a bit of a panic attack and already suffered with AF for which she was on medication for.
Then I started to get a bit mad, how the hell was I supposed to forsee that this woman was going to become unwell in his department when she'd left my ward perfectly fine. So I went down there and asked for him. I asked him if he was usually as patronising or did he keep it for just work hours, then I asked him since when have nurses been granted psychic abilities, and lastly I told him I don't expect to be spoken to like that on the phone again. All he said was that he was concerned for the patient.......DUH like we aren't. etc etc
Anyway, point of my waffle.....I maybe should have just SHUTUP, and let this one ride, but I couldn't. I couldn't turn the other cheek, and I couldn't keep my ego in check.
It made me feel better anyway.
The Bastard.
Scoob
Min......you never know when to Shutup!.......else those damn questions with the predictable responses would stop!!
I'm glad you called that consultant on his patronizing ways, Scooby.
I know it feels great when I stand up for myself (If only I'd do it more often! LoL)
