If an employee keeps doing more and more, and expectations get higher and higher, you can't always meet them, and then you're just getting punished for doing a good job.

That's the Peter Principle in a nutshell.

Cool, Sophia. Thanks.

One day, when I worked at Duke, someone anonymously left a magnet on my desk that read: "Remember, the better you do, the more they expect."

That's the Peter Principle in a nutshell.

I know! It drives me nuts. Most organizations (or large and/or corporate organizations) don't seem to acknowledge that some people don't want to manage, some people get to a point where they're content where they are, and some people do not have a burning desire to do anything except do a good job and then GO HOME.

My first boss at the Uni told me I would need to learn to work more slowly and be less enthusiatic or I would get taken advantage of. Sadly, she was right. She was one of the rare people who worked their way up from Secretary to just under dean level, so she probably knew what she was talking about!

Most organizations (or large and/or corporate organizations) don't seem to acknowledge that some people don't want to manage, some people get to a point where they're content where they are, and some people do not have a burning desire to do anything except do a good job and then GO HOME.

One of the (many) reasons I'm glad I no longer work for That Large Software Company is that they don't get that. No, I am not manager material, and I KNOW THAT. I'd give myself and my team a nervous breakdown within a year, tops.

Yeah, I got sharply excoriated for being sometimes brilliant in the same yell fest where I was also blamed for not knowing the developer on my team is incompetent. The fuck? And why does Swype keep capitalising Fuck?

There are 3 or 4 people around me and...shit. Teenager on the bed is being watched by security. Her older sister won't let her draw in her (older sister's) colouring book. Because it's a colouring book. You don't do that. Teenager wants to know if she has the right to remain silent, and she feels she needs to be able to trust herself. She must stay on the bed. She doesn't seem to want to. Her sister bright her in because she stopped taking her depression medication and she's saying things that don't make sense. The woman who was in the spot before her had also been talking nonsense, but that was due to migraines that started since she'd become pregnant.

The teenager is here until her mother gets here. Tomorrow.

The guy to my right just had a radical meet cute with a girl that complimented his ear gauging and needed tips about getting large tattoos. He's here for kidney stone pain and is on morphine. She got his digits. Score.

I hadn't realised how relaxing i was for the nurses, but these people's valid problems and lives HURT MY HEAD. Motherfucker. (Added "Motherfucker" to dictionary)

I keep getting dinged in reviews for attitude because I don't want to move up to the next level in tech support. I must be lazy if I don't want to be promoted. No, I know my strengths are talking to the customers and explaining things to the clueless. I don't want to change jobs to answering questions for techs who are talking to the customers. I think I need to put it that way during the next review.

Of course, there are salary caps on the various positions, so if you're happy with the job you have eventually they'll stop giving you raises.

Oh jesus. Are you in a room or the hallway? When Grace was there, a woman in the hall on a gurney hadn't been to the bathroom in the 18 hours I was there. But she need a catheter but had no room to have one placed. My image of hell.

Grace had surgery today. Everyone was freaked that we went to the ER because we never do that. We should have stopped by, ita. Also, for our purposes, we learned that the Santa Monica ER is about 27 times faster (in that we would have been in a room within an hour instead of 27).

Also, FYI, they were also filming on the second floor (the OR, the PTU and the recover rooms). Nurses were not thrilled by the sitch.