No Hope, Sunshine -- Revisited
Jun. 10th, 2004 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thessalianSo Hallowe'en is on a Sunday this year. Bum.
By the time late October rolls around, 7th Sea will be back on Sundays -- and Hallowe'en is a 7th Sea Sunday. Which means no damn going out and LARPing Mage. Not on the day, anyway. Suckage utter and complete. I could ask Andy P to bag it just this once but it doesn't seem nice somehow.
Actually, that's a point. Once Andy gets his schedule back in order and can actually do 7th Sea Sundays again, what's going to happen to Mage? There are a few options and I'm not sure any of them are going to be good for everybody:
We start playing 7th Sea again. Mage dies a quiet and unremarked death. Suckage for me.
Consensus opinion goes with continuing Mage rather than pick 7th Sea up again. Suckage for Andy P, but possibly negated by the fact that he might be able to get in as a player, which he almost never gets to do because he's such a rockin' GM. On the other hand, eight people in group.
We start playing 7th Sea again. Andy O finishes with Exalted and we run Mage instead, or we run Mage and Exalted on alternate alternate Sundays. Either way, suckage for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cholten99, who will have to drop as he is playing Immortal in Colchester.
We start playing 7th Sea again. Exalted continues to run. We try to run Mage during the week, while also trying to find the time for Buffy, Angel and the last two bits of Firefly. Suckage for Andy O in particular because I don't think he has the time or energy during the week to game and then he'd have to drop.
Wow. You'd think I see enough diary management in my job without having to do it for my hobbies too.
Speaking of the job, there's bound to be a verbal smackdown between my two consultants. Dr Slater has stated that clinics have to be closed very early because Dr Slevin tends to turn up in clinic at 9:30, leave at 11:00 and leave her to see all the patients he's had booked in his name. Dr Slevin, on the other hand, just phoned me to say that there is now officially no such thing as "the clinic is closed" and anyone who wants to see him has to be able to see him immediately. Despite the fact that, according to Dr Slater, he doesn't. And it apparently doesn't matter that clinics are overbooked to capacity and there's absolutely no sense of prioritisation anymore. The man's too used to private practice, I think; much as it sucks, the NHS doesn't work the way he seems to think it does.
I'm not getting in the middle of this. I refuse. I am here to organise their diaries, book their clinics, open their post and generally make their lives easier but I need to know exactly which of them I'm supposed to listen to when it comes to clinic bookings. Grah. At least it's been relatively quiet this week, bar idiots. I do get so many idiots; the people who try to use guilt and/or bullying to badger the secretary into dodging the system so that they can take precedence. There's this me-me-me entitlement culture that I'd understand a lot better if they were paying for a service.
Oh, I don't know. I have the utmost sympathy and a fair bit of empathy for the people I have to deal with every day. The problem is that there are some things that cannot be done. We only have clinics on Monday. We have a consultant who seems to have this whole denial thing about overbooked clinics and the effort he has to put in to make sure the patients he's insisted should be overbooked get seen, and another who seems to think it's fine to close entire clinics without informing the other consultant involved. We also have a registrar who leaves paperwork and patient bookings for chemo until he's nagged at least three times and has a nasty habit of overbooking himself, and house officers who leave tubes in people. Welcome to the NHS, where no amount of sympathy can overcome the fuck-uppedness. This is why I've stated before (and will do so again) that NHS stands for "No Hope, Sunshine".
By the time late October rolls around, 7th Sea will be back on Sundays -- and Hallowe'en is a 7th Sea Sunday. Which means no damn going out and LARPing Mage. Not on the day, anyway. Suckage utter and complete. I could ask Andy P to bag it just this once but it doesn't seem nice somehow.
Actually, that's a point. Once Andy gets his schedule back in order and can actually do 7th Sea Sundays again, what's going to happen to Mage? There are a few options and I'm not sure any of them are going to be good for everybody:
cholten99, who will have to drop as he is playing Immortal in Colchester.Wow. You'd think I see enough diary management in my job without having to do it for my hobbies too.
Speaking of the job, there's bound to be a verbal smackdown between my two consultants. Dr Slater has stated that clinics have to be closed very early because Dr Slevin tends to turn up in clinic at 9:30, leave at 11:00 and leave her to see all the patients he's had booked in his name. Dr Slevin, on the other hand, just phoned me to say that there is now officially no such thing as "the clinic is closed" and anyone who wants to see him has to be able to see him immediately. Despite the fact that, according to Dr Slater, he doesn't. And it apparently doesn't matter that clinics are overbooked to capacity and there's absolutely no sense of prioritisation anymore. The man's too used to private practice, I think; much as it sucks, the NHS doesn't work the way he seems to think it does.
I'm not getting in the middle of this. I refuse. I am here to organise their diaries, book their clinics, open their post and generally make their lives easier but I need to know exactly which of them I'm supposed to listen to when it comes to clinic bookings. Grah. At least it's been relatively quiet this week, bar idiots. I do get so many idiots; the people who try to use guilt and/or bullying to badger the secretary into dodging the system so that they can take precedence. There's this me-me-me entitlement culture that I'd understand a lot better if they were paying for a service.
Oh, I don't know. I have the utmost sympathy and a fair bit of empathy for the people I have to deal with every day. The problem is that there are some things that cannot be done. We only have clinics on Monday. We have a consultant who seems to have this whole denial thing about overbooked clinics and the effort he has to put in to make sure the patients he's insisted should be overbooked get seen, and another who seems to think it's fine to close entire clinics without informing the other consultant involved. We also have a registrar who leaves paperwork and patient bookings for chemo until he's nagged at least three times and has a nasty habit of overbooking himself, and house officers who leave tubes in people. Welcome to the NHS, where no amount of sympathy can overcome the fuck-uppedness. This is why I've stated before (and will do so again) that NHS stands for "No Hope, Sunshine".
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Date: 2004-06-10 03:13 pm (UTC)Ain't it grand, working in such a wonderful system? ^_^