Okay, bug, but the important question is whether you drank3 more cups before your therapist cut you off (because that was my guess)

I didn't, actually. I only had one more before she cut me off.

And, in her defense, she made very good points, and had observed my behavior (and shakes). I'm avoiding dealing with the actual problem (my fibro) by just drinking more and more coffee, which probably isn't actually helping anything. So, anyways...

I did make it to campus, and my mom is gonna pick me up and take me home so I don't have to deal with public transportation when feeling this crappy. It will also get me home about a half hour faster, which willl be nice.

In my experience, when you try to reach the C. Exec of a company you are routed to someone trained specifically to fend off people trying to reach top officer. That often results in action being taken on the problem that motivated you.

This is true. And actually, one of my friend's father is an extremely high mucky-muck in TCF's MI arm. You want I should call her?

P-C, I also think you need to talk to the new job description writer first. I think everyone benefits when you go to the source, plus your boss gave her the task. Perhaps this is a case of "to a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

I would got talk to her with a (not necessarily written) job desscription of what *you* think you do. If she doesn't have to do the work of creating it from scratch, she might be more open to adjusting it.

If she won't change it, then go talk to your boss. I know nothing about your company, but you dont want to end up being evaluated against a job you don't do or aren't qualified to do.

I drink too much soda probably. But diet has a strange aftertaste that is the only thing I notice drinking it.

In my own job news, my asshat supervisor has been telling me for weeks now that i have to work on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve because a)someone has to be here, b)everyone else has asked for it off (this is not true, by the way). According to asshat, this is agency policy and there is nothing she can do about it, not her decision, blah blah blah.

Someone approached asshat's boss about the Christmas leave situation so she then approached each of us and asked what we had requested. She approved my leave request in about 10 minutes.

Asshat just likes being in control of us and thinking she has the power to deny us leave. Thankfully, someone senior with less ego issues stepped in and resolved it. I will be so glad to be out of here.

Isn't it lovely - not to mention unusual - when someone with minimal ego issues rises to the top? or at least closer to the top ....

Thanks for the advice, Stephanie.

P-C, I do think you need to go to the person who wrote this job description to figure out if she didn't know how to describe your job or if your job will be changing (unfortunately, almost every job has the catch-all "other tasks as assigned" to cover the arse of the employer should they decide to change their minds about what you'll be doing).

Stephanie, I had that asshat boss once - she assigned me to work over Thanksgiving, when I'd specified that was the holiday I wanted off and she'd agreed previously. I had it in writing, but "the situation had changed." So I checked the calendar and gave her two weeks notice -- thus I got Thanksgiving work free. I heard from someone else that she'd called a meeting so they could all pray together that I'd change my mind and stay. (It was a catholic hospital.)

(unfortunately, almost every job has the catch-all "other tasks as assigned" to cover the arse of the employer should they decide to change their minds about what you'll be doing)

Yeah, and the thing is, I've been doing some of these random safety tasks, but...it's not what I consider to be my job. Throw them in if you want, but this new description is lopsided. I just got back from a medical writers conference and ran out of business cards that said I was a medical writer. I don't want to be called a drug safety specialist now.

I'm sorry about the bank craziness, Aimee.

P-C, I think you're getting good advice.

I woke up with a nasty sore throat, coughing, and vague achy feeling this morning, so I called in sick. After taking a nap, I feel better, but I think I made the right call to stay home. It's been sort of crazy-busy at work this week, so tomorrow and Friday will be a scramble, but I needed the mental health day. Not to mention the physical health day, since I'm far from 100%, and there seems to be at least three different cold or flu type bugs bouncing around the office (ah, the joys of working in a big-city hospital).

I hope things turn out OK with my new boss in the end. I'm feeling a bit better about the situation, but it's still not quite the job it was when I took it on, you know? And I'm not sure I'm going to like the new version as much. But since quitting my day job is unlikely to be an option anytime soon, and I'm also stuck for the foreseeable future doing this kind of work, since I don't have the time/money to go back to school AND write AND fulfill my family responsibilities AND work full-time, I've got to find a way to learn to live with it with minimal bitterness. Either against myself or the world. Of course, knowing that doesn't make it any easier to DO.