Comments on: You Know You’re Working Too Much When…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:16:45 +0000

Anyone else freak out when someone comes over the intercom in a store and says “code blue”? It probably just means somebody dropped some eggs in aisle four, but I always end up looking for someone to do CPR on.

By: Nicki

Nicki — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:25:07 +0000

I had to laugh when you were talking about the I’s and O’s. I constantly catch my self measuring exactly what my kids eat and drink so that I can chart it.

By: HypnoKitten

HypnoKitten — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 00:10:04 +0000

I know I’m posting late to this, but I was a dispatcher for cabs and then transit buses for a long time before nursing school. You can tell who is a dispatcher – to this day I tell my family and anyone else ‘standby’ rather than ‘hold on’ or ‘wait a sec’.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:40:05 +0000

Ack, we’re all sick!
Yes, I’ve admired veins, I especially have admired good anticubitals as I put PICC lines in.
I’ve answered my home phone with the title of my employer.
And finally, as the director of nurisng of a small nursing home, when a problem arises at home I look at my family and ask them what their “plan of correction” is going to be.

By: geena

geena — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:17:07 +0000

Oh, another one – When I’m at work and am calling a different department, I say, “Hi, this is Geena from CCU.” I’ve found that I also do it at home. Calling the hair salon… “Hi, this is Geena from C.. Uh… Can I make an appointment?”

Ugh :)

By: jaden

jaden — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:15:40 +0000

Yes! I am glad I am not the only one dialing 9 to get an outside line at home and checking out weight lifters’ great veins! *Jaden

By: DisappearingJohn

DisappearingJohn — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 19:35:44 +0000

We recently started the voicera’s, too. It is amazing what they can do. They can “find” you, or anyone else. Just say, “Find..(insert name)”, and it will tell you where they are…

I also got frustrated one night, and said, “Call..someone who cares”.. It came back with, “OK, calling EVeryone” I paniced and shu t it off, then laughed harder than I have in a while. I told the night supervisor, and he didn’t believe me, so he tried it. WOrked for him, too.

By: Jodie

Jodie — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:45:25 +0000

I admire people’s veins too — sometimes I notice the veins before the face, even…eek!

And I often find myself dialing 9 before the phone number since that is what we do here at work.

By: Joan

Joan — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:19:41 +0000

I’ve been out of the office workforce for too long to have retained any of those “work memories”, but I remember I did have problems with answering my home phone.

But what I really wanted to say was, I want those foot-pedal operated sinks at home! I’m sure the plumbing is a lot more complicated and expensive, but I think it would be worth it.

By: geena

geena — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:12:17 +0000

Agreed about noticing people’s veins outside of work… I once told a man that he would “make some nurse very happy someday.”
:)